SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
FOR May 03, 2005
ALLIED DOMECQ PLC
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)
ALLIED DOMECQ PLC
(Translation of Registrant's name into English)
The Pavilions
Bridgwater Road
Bedminster Down
Bristol BS13 8AR
England
(Address of Registrant's principal executive offices)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file
annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F x Form 40-F
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the
information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the
information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Yes No x
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If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to
the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- _____
Exhibit Index
Exhibit No. Description
Exhibit No. 1 Director Shareholding announcement dated 15 April 2005
Exhibit No. 2 Employee Trust announcement dated 19 April 2005
Exhibit No. 3 Employee Trust announcement dated 20 April 2005
Exhibit No. 4 Employee Trust announcement dated 21 April 2005
Exhibit No. 5 Interim Report announcement dated 21 April 2005
Exhibit No. 6 Employee Trust announcement dated 22 April 2005
Exhibit No. 7 Notifiable Interests announcement dated 25 April 2005
Exhibit No. 8 Employee Trust announcement dated 26 April 2005
Exhibit No. 9 Employee Trust announcement dated 27 April 2005
Exhibit No. 10 Employee Trust announcement dated 28 April 2005
Exhibit No. 11 Holding(s) in Company announcement dated 28 April 2005
Exhibit No. 1
Allied Domecq PLC
Employee Share Ownership Trust (the "Trust")
This is to advise you that Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited,
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, the Trustee of the Company's employee benefit
discretionary trust established for the purposes of the Company's employee share
plans have advised under three separate notifications, dated 15 April 2005, that
they disposed on 14 April and 15 April, of a total of 167,700 Ordinary shares of
25p each in Allied Domecq PLC.
These shares were disposed of in connection with the Allied Domecq PLC employee
share plans.
The total number of unallocated ordinary shares held by the Trust following
these disposals is 17,063,256 shares (made up of both Ordinary Shares and ADSs).
The following executive directors together with all employees are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust and as a result of these disposals there has been a
change in the number of shares they are interested in, however the executive
directors were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
above-mentioned dates:-
Philip Bowman, Graham C Hetherington, David Scotland and Richard G Turner.
Charles B Brown
Director, Corporate Secretariat
Deputy Company Secretary
15 April 2005
Exhibit No. 2
Allied Domecq PLC
Employee Share Ownership Trust (the "Trust")
This is to advise you that Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited,
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, the Trustee of the Company's employee benefit
discretionary trust established for the purposes of the Company's employee share
plans have advised under a notification dated 19 April 2005, that they disposed
on that date of a total of 257 Ordinary shares of 25p each in Allied Domecq PLC.
These shares were disposed of in connection with the Allied Domecq PLC employee
share plans.
The total number of unallocated ordinary shares held by the Trust following this
disposal is 17,062,999 shares (made up of both Ordinary Shares and ADSs).
The following executive directors together with all employees are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust and as a result of this disposal there has been a
change in the number of shares they are interested in, however the executive
directors were not connected with the transaction that took place on the
above-mentioned date:-
Philip Bowman, Graham C Hetherington, David Scotland and Richard G Turner.
Charles B Brown
Director, Corporate Secretariat
Deputy Company Secretary
19 April 2005
Exhibit No. 3
Allied Domecq PLC
Employee Share Ownership Trust (the "Trust")
This is to advise you that Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited,
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, the Trustee of the Company's employee benefit
discretionary trust established for the purposes of the Company's employee share
plans have advised under a notification dated 19 April 2005, that they disposed
on that date of a total of 12,100 Ordinary shares of 25p each in Allied Domecq
PLC.
These shares were disposed of in connection with the Allied Domecq PLC employee
share plans.
The total number of unallocated ordinary shares held by the Trust following this
disposal is 17,050,899 shares (made up of both Ordinary Shares and ADSs).
The following executive directors together with all employees are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust and as a result of this disposal there has been a
change in the number of shares they are interested in, however the executive
directors were not connected with the transaction that took place on the
above-mentioned date:-
Philip Bowman, Graham C Hetherington, David Scotland and Richard G Turner.
Charles B Brown
Director, Corporate Secretariat
Deputy Company Secretary
20 April 2005
Exhibit No. 4
Allied Domecq PLC
Employee Share Ownership Trust (the "Trust")
This is to advise you that Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited,
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, the Trustee of the Company's employee benefit
discretionary trust established for the purposes of the Company's employee share
plans have advised under a notification dated 20 April 2005, that they disposed
on that date of a total of 4,500 Ordinary shares of 25p each in Allied Domecq
PLC.
These shares were disposed of in connection with the Allied Domecq PLC employee
share plans.
The total number of unallocated ordinary shares held by the Trust following this
disposal is 17,046,399 shares (made up of both Ordinary Shares and ADSs).
The following executive directors together with all employees are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust and as a result of this disposal there has been a
change in the number of shares they are interested in, however the executive
directors were not connected with the transaction that took place on the
above-mentioned date:-
Philip Bowman, Graham C Hetherington, David Scotland and Richard G Turner.
Charles B Brown
Director, Corporate Secretariat
Deputy Company Secretary
21 April 2005
Exhibit No. 5
Allied Domecq PLC
21 April 2005
Doc Re: Interim Report For Six Months Ended 28 February 2005.
A copy of the above document has been submitted to the UK Listing Authority, and
will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document
Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS
Tel No. 020 7066 1000
Exhibit No. 6
Allied Domecq PLC
Employee Share Ownership Trust (the "Trust")
This is to advise you that Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited,
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, the Trustee of the Company's employee benefit
discretionary trust established for the purposes of the Company's employee share
plans have advised under three seperate notifications, two dated 21 April 2005
and one dated 22 April 2005, that they disposed on those dates of a total of
34,319 Ordinary shares of 25p each in Allied Domecq PLC.
These shares were disposed of in connection with the Allied Domecq PLC employee
share plans.
The total number of unallocated ordinary shares held by the Trust following
these disposals is 17,012,080 shares (made up of both Ordinary Shares and
ADSs).
The following executive directors together with all employees are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust and as a result of these disposals there has been a
change in the number of shares they are interested in, however the executive
directors were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
above-mentioned dates:-
Philip Bowman, Graham C Hetherington, David Scotland and Richard G Turner.
Charles B Brown
Director, Corporate Secretariat
Deputy Company Secretary
22 April 2005
Exhibit No. 7
SCHEDULE 11
NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS
1) Name of company
ALLIED DOMECQ PLC
2) Name of director
GRAHAM CHARLES HETHERINGTON
3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-
beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18 or in
respect of a non-beneficial interest
HOLDING OF SPOUSE OF SHAREHOLDER NAMED IN 2 ABOVE
4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them (if notified)
GRAHAM CHARLES HETHERINGTON 84,947 - SHARES HELD IN OWN NAME
164,626 - SHARES HELD IN TOWERS PERRIN SHARE
PLAN SERVICES LTD,TRUSTEE OF THE
ALLIED DOMECQ PLC SHARE OWNERSHIP
TRUSTS
3,500 - SHARES HELD IN GREENWOOD NOMINEES
LIMITED
TOTAL - 253,073 SHARES
5) Please state whether notification relates to a person(s) connected
with the Director named in 2 above and identify the connected person(s)
DIRECTOR'S SPOUSE - MRS VICTORIA HETHERINGTON
6) Please state the nature of the transaction. For PEP transactions
please indicate whether general/single co PEP and if discretionary/non
discretionary
INCREASE IN NOTIFIABLE INTEREST BY VIRTUE OF S.328 COMPANIES ACT 1985 ("CA
1985")
7) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired
NOTIFIABLE INTEREST OF DIRECTOR INCREASED BY VIRTUE OF S.328 CA 1985
1,468 SHARES
8) Percentage of issued class
0.0001%
9) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed
N/A
10) Percentage of issued class
N/A
11) Class of security
25P ORDINARY SHARES
12) Price per share
N/A, SHARES NOT ACQUIRED
13) Date of transaction
12 MARCH 2005 (DATE OF MARRIAGE)
14) Date company informed
22 APRIL 2005
15) Total holding following this notification
GRAHAM CHARLES HETHERINGTON 84,947 - SHARES HELD IN OWN NAME
164,626 - SHARES HELD IN TOWERS PERRIN SHARE
PLAN SERVICES LTD,TRUSTEE OF THE
ALLIED DOMECQ PLC SHARE OWNERSHIP
TRUSTS
3,500 - SHARES HELD IN GREENWOOD NOMINEES
LIMITED
MRS VICTORIA HETHERINGTON 1,468 - SHARES HELD IN COMPUTERSHARE
TRUSTEES LIMITED
TOTAL - 254,541 SHARES
16) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification
0.023%
If a director has been granted options by the company please complete the
following boxes
17) Date of grant
(1) 01 NOVEMBER 2002
(2) 01 NOVEMBER 2002
(3) 23 OCTOBER 2003
18) Period during which or date on which exercisable
(1) 01 NOVEMBER 2005 TO 31 OCTOBER 2012
(2) 01 NOVEMBER 2005 TO 31 OCTOBER 2012
(3) 23 OCTOBER 2006 TO 22 OCTOBER 2013
19) Total amount paid (if any) for grant of the option
N/A
20) Description of shares or debentures involved: class, number
(1) 7,853 25P ORDINARY SHARES
(2) 1,147 25P ORDINARY SHARES
(3) 7,500 25P ORDINARY SHARES
21) Exercise price (if fixed at time of grant) or indication that price
is to be fixed at time of exercise
(1) 382 PENCE
(2) 382 PENCE
(3) 383 PENCE
22) Total number of shares or debentures over which options held
following this notification
568,032 (INCREASED BY VIRTUE OF S.328 CA 1985)
23) Any additional information
OPTIONS WILL BECOME EXERCISABLE SUBJECT TO ALLIED DOMECQ'S EPS GROWTH EXCEEDING
THE RETAIL PRICES INDEX ("RPI")BY 9% OVER A THREE-YEAR PERIOD. IF THE
PERFORMANCE CONDITION IS NOT MET AT THE END OF THREE YEARS, THE PERFORMANCE
PERIOD IS EXTENDED FIRST TO FOUR YEARS AND THEN FIVE YEARS, WITH A PROPORTIONATE
INCREASE IN THE PERFORMANCE CONDITION TO RPI PLUS 12% AND 15% RESPECTIVELY.
NO SHARES WERE ACQUIRED BY OR OPTIONS GRANTED TO MR. OR MRS. HETHERINGTON.
HOWEVER, DUE TO MARRIAGE AND THE APPLICATION OF S.328 CA 1985, A NEW INTEREST
HAS BECOME NOTIFIABLE PURSUANT TO LISTING RULE 16.13.
24) Name of contact and telephone number for queries
CHARLES BROWN
TELEPHONE 0117 978 5265
25) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification
CHARLES BROWN,
DIRECTOR, CORPORATE SECRETARIAT
DEPUTY COMPANY SECRETARY
TELEPHONE 0117 978 5265
Exhibit No. 8
Allied Domecq PLC
Employee Share Ownership Trust (the "Trust")
This is to advise you that Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited,
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, the Trustee of the Company's employee benefit
discretionary trust established for the purposes of the Company's employee share
plans have advised under three seperate notifications, two dated 25 April 2005
and one dated 26 April 2005, that they disposed on 25 April of a total of
171,548 Ordinary shares of 25p each in Allied Domecq PLC.
These shares were disposed of in connection with the Allied Domecq PLC employee
share plans.
The total number of unallocated ordinary shares held by the Trust following
these disposals is 16,840,532 shares (made up of both Ordinary Shares and ADSs).
The following executive directors together with all employees are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust and as a result of these disposals there has been a
change in the number of shares they are interested in, however the executive
directors were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
above-mentioned dates:-
Philip Bowman, Graham C Hetherington, David Scotland and Richard G Turner.
Charles B Brown
Director, Corporate Secretariat
Deputy Company Secretary
26 April 2005
Exhibit No. 9
Allied Domecq PLC
Employee Share Ownership Trust (the "Trust")
This is to advise you that Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited,
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, the Trustee of the Company's employee benefit
discretionary trust established for the purposes of the Company's employee share
plans have advised under a notification, dated 26 April 2005, that on that date
they disposed of a total of 27,648 Ordinary shares of 25p each in Allied Domecq
PLC.
These shares were disposed of in connection with the Allied Domecq PLC employee
share plans.
Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited, St. Peter Port, Guernsey
also advised under a notification of the same date that further awards under the
Allied Domecq PLC Performance Share Plan 2005 (the "Plan") had been made in the
form of 39,818 forfeitable shares.
As a result of the above transactions, the number of unallocated shares in the
Company held by Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited has reduced
from 16,840,532 to 16,773,066 (made up of both Ordinary Shares and ADSs).
The following executive directors together with all employees are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust and as a result of these transactions there has been
a change in the number of shares they are interested in, however the executive
directors were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
above-mentioned date:-
Philip Bowman, Graham C Hetherington, David Scotland and Richard G Turner.
Charles B Brown
Director, Corporate Secretariat
Deputy Company Secretary
27 April 2005
Exhibit No. 10
Allied Domecq PLC
Employee Share Ownership Trust (the "Trust")
This is to advise you that Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited,
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, the Trustee of the Company's employee benefit
discretionary trust established for the purposes of the Company's employee share
plans have advised under two separate notifications, both dated 27 April 2005,
that they disposed on that date, of a total of 169,000 Ordinary shares of 25p
each in Allied Domecq PLC.
These shares were disposed of in connection with the Allied Domecq PLC employee
share plans.
The total number of unallocated ordinary shares held by the Trust following
these disposals is 16,604,066 shares (made up of both Ordinary Shares and ADSs).
The following executive directors together with all employees are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust and as a result of these disposals there has been a
change in the number of shares they are interested in, however the executive
directors were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
above-mentioned date:-
Philip Bowman, Graham C Hetherington, David Scotland and Richard G Turner.
Charles B Brown
Director, Corporate Secretariat
Deputy Company Secretary
28 April 2005
Exhibit No. 11
SCHEDULE 10
NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES
1. Name of company
Allied Domecq PLC.
2. Name of shareholder having a major interest
Deutsche Bank AG
3. Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding
of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest
or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's
spouse or children under the age of 18
2 separate notifications in respect of shareholder named in 2
4. Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them
Not Known
5. Number of shares / amount of stock acquired
Not Known
6. Percentage of issued class
Not Known
7. Number of shares / amount of stock disposed
Not Known
8. Percentage of issued class
Not Known
9. Class of security
25 pence Ordinary shares
10. Date of transaction
Two transactions dated 25 and 26 April 2005
11. Date company informed
27 and 28 April 2005 respectively
12. Total holding following this notification
Total holding following both notifications is
51,132,588
13. Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification
4.62%
14. Any additional information
The Shareholder named in 2 advised under a notification dated 25 April 2005 and
received by the company on 27 April 2005 that it had a notifiable interest in
40,844,024 ordinary shares of the company amounting to 3.69% of the issued
class. The shareholder named in 2 further notified the company under a
notification dated 26 April 2005 and received by the company on 28 April 2005
that it had increased its holding in the company. The shareholder named in 2 now
holds a total of 51,132,588 ordinary shares in the company amounting to a total
of 4.62% of the issued class.
15. Name of contact and telephone number for queries
Nick Giles- Telephone: 0117 978 5009
16. Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making
this notification
Charles B. Brown, Director, Corporate Secretariat, Deputy Company Secretary
Date of notification
28 April 2005
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereto duly authorized.
03 May, 2005
ALLIED DOMECQ PLC
By: /s/ Charles Brown
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Name: Charles Brown
Title: Director, Corporate Secretariat
Deputy Company Secretary