2008
Fidelity’s holdings in ABB decreased to below 3 Percent
Zurich, February 20, 2008 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of SWX stock exchange act, FMR LLC, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109, USA, announced that, as of February 18, 2008 it, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, holds for its funds and clients a total of registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich, which is less than 3 percent of total capital and voting rights.
Fidelity’s holdings in ABB decreased to below 5 Percent
Zurich, January 16, 2008 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of SWX stock exchange act, FMR LLC, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109, USA, announced that, as of January 11, 2008 it, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, holds for its funds and clients a total of 104’896’048 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich, thereby falling below the 5 percent threshold. The holding corresponds to 4.79 percent of total voting rights as per entry in the commercial register.
2007
Fidelity’s holdings in ABB increase beyond 5 percent
Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 20, 2007 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of SWX stock exchange act, FMR Corp., 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109, USA, announced that, as per February 14, 2007 it, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, holds for its funds and clients a total of 109’485’941 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich. This corresponds to slightly above 5.0 percent of total capital and voting rights.
2006
Fidelity´s holdings in ABB fall below 5 percent
Zurich, Switzerland, December 27, 2006 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of SWX stock exchange act, FMR Corp., 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109, USA, announced that, as per December 20, 2006 it, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, holds for its funds and clients a total of registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich, which is less than 5 percent of total capital and voting rights.
Fidelity’s holdings in ABB increase beyond 5 percent
Zurich, November 28, 2006 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of SWX stock exchange act, FMR Corp., 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109, USA, announced that, as per November 22, 2006 it, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, holds for its funds and clients a total of 111’888’682 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich. This corresponds to 5.1 percent of total capital and voting rights.
2005
Fidelity´s holdings in ABB fall below 5 percent
Zurich, August 18, 2005 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of stock exchange act, FMR Corp., 82 Devonshire Street, Boston MA 02109, USA, announced that, as per August 12, 2005, it, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, holds for its funds and clients a total of registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich, which is less than 5 percent of total capital and voting rights.
Fidelity’s holdings in ABB increase beyond 5 percent
Zurich, April 14, 2005 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of SWX stock exchange act, FMR Corp., 82 Devonshire Street, Boston MA 02109, USA , announced that, as per April 7, 2005 it, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, holds for its funds and clients a total of 103,744,180 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich. This corresponds to 5.01 percent of total capital and voting rights.
2004
The Capital Group Companies, Inc.’s holdings in ABB below 5 percent
Zurich, April 30, 2004 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of SWX stock exchange act, The Capital Group Companies, Inc., 333 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA, announced that, as per April 23, 2004 it holds for account of its clients a total of registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich, which is less than 5 percent of total capital and voting rights.
2003
Investor AB’s holdings in ABB, passive passing of threshold
Zurich, December 23, 2003 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of stock exchange act, the Swedish industrial holding company Investor AB, Arsenalsgatan 8c, SE-103 32 Stockholm, announced that, as per December 16, 2003, it holds an unchanged total of 204,115,142 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich.
Due to the issuance of 30,298,913 ABB shares out of the authorized share capital in connection with the Plan of reorganization of Combustion Engineering, Investor’s share in ABB has changed from the former 10.01 percent to 9.86 percent of total capital and voting rights, although the amount of shares held by Investor is unchanged.
The Capital Group Companies, Inc.’s holdings in ABB increase beyond 5 Percent
Zurich, December 3, 2003 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of SWX stock exchange act, The Capital Group Companies, Inc., 333 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA, on behalf of funds managed by Capital Research and Management Company, Los Angeles, and clients managed by Capital Guardian Trust Company, Los Angeles, Capital International Limited, London, Capital International Inc., Los Angeles, and Capital International SA, Geneva, Switzerland, announced that, as per November 26, 2003 it holds for its clients a total of 66’286’005 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich. This corresponds to 5.52 percent of total capital and voting rights.
The Capital Group Companies, Inc. holds less than 5 Percent of ABB
Zurich, July 30, 2003 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of SWX stock exchange act, The Capital Group Companies, Inc., 333 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA, on behalf of funds managed by Capital Research and Management Company, Los Angeles, and clients managed by Capital Guardian Trust Company, Los Angeles, Capital International Limited, London, Capital International Inc., Los Angeles, and Capital International SA, Geneva, Switzerland, announced, that, as per July 22, 2003 it holds for its clients a total of 59,978,124 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich. This corresponds to 4.99 percent of total capital and voting rights.
The Capital Group Companies, Inc. holds 5 Percent of ABB
Zurich, March 19, 2003 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of SWX stock exchange act, The Capital Group Companies, Inc., 333 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA, on behalf of funds managed by Capital Research and Management Company, Los Angeles, and clients managed by Capital Guardian Trust Company, Los Angeles, Capital International Limited, London, Capital International Inc., Los Angeles, and Capital International SA, Geneva, Switzerland, announced that, as per March 11, 2003 it holds for its clients a total of 64’043’388 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich. This corresponds to 5.33 percent of total capital and voting rights.
Notification on holding of treasury shares
Zurich, March 17, 2003 - ABB Ltd has today pursuant to Article 20 of the Swiss Exchange Act informed the Swiss Exchange that since 14 March 2003, the ABB Group holds less than 5 percent of the total number of outstanding shares and votes of ABB Ltd, Zurich. The ABB Group today holds less than 1 percent of the total number of outstanding shares and votes of ABB Ltd.
BZ Group’s holdings in ABB fall below 5 Percent
Zurich, January 8, 2003 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of stock exchange act, the
BZ Group Holding Limited, Wilen, announced that, as per December 30, 2002, its holdings in ABB Ltd, Zurich, fell below 5 percent of total voting rights.
2002
Investor AB’s holdings in ABB increase beyond 10 Percent
Zurich, November 27, 2002 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of stock exchange act, the Swedish investment company Investor AB, Arsenalsgatan 8c, SE-103 32 Stockholm, announced that, as per November 22, 2002, it holds a total of 120,067,731 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich. This corresponds to 10.01 percent of total capital and voting rights.
Investor AB’s holdings in ABB increase beyond 5 Percent
Zurich, November 7, 2002 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of stock exchange act, the Swedish investment company Investor AB, Arsenalsgatan 8c, SE-103 32 Stockholm, announced that, as per November 4, 2002, it holds a total of 82,009,799 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich. This corresponds to 6.83 percent of total capital and voting rights.
Putnam Investment Management's holdings in ABB fall below 5 Percent
Zurich, October 16, 2002 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of stock exchange act, Putnam Investment Management, LLC, 1 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109, one of the largest U.S. asset management companies, announced that, as per October 10, 2002, it holds for its clients a total of 58,466,298 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich. This corresponds to 4.87 percent of total capital and voting rights.
Putnam Investment Management holds 5 Percent of ABB
Zurich, October 14, 2002 - Pursuant to Art. 20 of stock exchange act, Putnam Investment Management, LLC, 1 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109, one of the largest U.S. asset management companies, announced that, as per October 7, 2002, it holds for its clients a total of 60,147,535 registered shares of ABB Ltd, Zurich. This corresponds to 5.01 percent of total capital and voting rights.
BZ Group has decreased stake in ABB to 9.7 percent
Zurich, Switzerland, August 05, 2002 - The BZ Group Holding Limited, Switzerland announced that, as per July 30, 2002, it holds less than 10 % of total voting rights of ABB Ltd, Zurich through BZ Bank AG, Wilen and the Intershop Holding AG, Winterthur. The BZ Group Holding Limited directly and indirectly holds 116 817 042 registered shares of ABB Ltd corresponding to 9.7 % of total capital and votes.
2001
BZ Group increases stake in ABB
Investment company controls 10.1 percent of global technology group
Zurich, Switzerland, Aug 7, 2001 - The BZ Gruppe Holding AG announced that, as per August 3, 2001, it surpassed directly and indirectly through Stillhalter Vision AG, Freienbach, and through BZ Bank AG, Freienbach and the Intershop Holding AG, Winterthur, the threshold of 10 % of total votes of ABB Ltd, Zurich. The BZ Group holds 120,607,194 registered shares of ABB Ltd corresponding to a share of 10.1% of capital and of total votes.
ABB treasury shares exceed 5% of total number of outstanding shares
Zurich, Switzerland, June 7, 2001 - ABB said today, that since 1 June 2001 the ABB Group holds 74,230,312 registered shares of ABB Ltd corresponding to 6.19% of the total number of outstanding shares and votes of ABB Ltd.
1999
BZ Gruppe Notification, July 5, 1999
BZ Gruppe Holding AG has announced that as per June 28, 1999 it holds directly and indirectly through Stillhalter Vision AG and through BZ Bank AG, both based in Freienbach, Switzerland, 20,351,746 registered shares corresponding to 6.78 percent of capital and votes of ABB Ltd.