Holding(s) in Company

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For filings with issuer exclude the annex



	Mitchells & Butlers plc
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights	Yes
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached	No
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments	No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights	No
Other (please specify):		No
	Piedmont Inc.
	n/a
	14 and 16 December 2011
6. Date on which issuer notified:	16 December 2011
	24% and 25%

8. Notified details:

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Direct

Indirect

94,695,841

105,031,549

25.65%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Exercise price

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

105,031,549

25.65%


n/a

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:




14. Contact name:	Douglas Armstrong, Dickson Minto W.S.
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7649 6823