Our shares and shareholder information
for the year ended 28 June 2009
Key information
| Ordinary shares | |
| Authorised | 500,000,000 |
| Issued | 201,302,639 |
| Number of shareholders | 10,382 |
| Year-end | |
| End of June | |
| Ordinary general meeting of shareholders | |
| Held annually in Johannesburg towards the end of November | |
| Administrators of shareholders’ register Computershare Investor Services (Pty) Ltd 70 Marshall Street Johannesburg 2000 |
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| Share code MSM |
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| High, low and closing share price (cents per share) |
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Shareholder spread
Shareholders split between public and non-public
Distribution of shareholders
Foreign shareholding
Massmart’s share price and trading volumes on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (rebased to R12.95)
Principal shareholders
| Number of shares | Equity stake(%) | |
| Beneficial shareholders holding 5% or more | ||
| Public Investment Corporation | 18,852,175 | 9.4 |
| Custodians and managers holding 5% or more | ||
| The following custodians and managers | ||
| held beneficially, directly or indirectly, more | ||
| than 5% of the Company’s shares: | ||
| Aberdeen Asset Management Group | 24,920,136 | 12.4 |
| STANLIB Asset Management | 14,487,726 | 7.2 |
| Lazard Asset Management LLC Group | 13,106,873 | 6.5 |
| J.P. Morgan Asset Management | 13,071,486 | 6.5 |