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Exhibit 99.1
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Press Release
www.shire.com
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Total Voting Rights
April 1, 2015 - Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG) (the “Company”), in accordance with the Financial Conduct Authority's (the “FCA”) Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1R, notifies the market of the following:
As at March 31, 2015, the Company’s issued ordinary share capital comprised 591,485,080 ordinary shares of 5 pence each with voting rights and a further 8,743,057 ordinary shares held in treasury.
Therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company is 591,485,080. This is the figure which should be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Tony Guthrie
Deputy Company Secretary
For further information please contact:
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Investor Relations
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Sarah Elton-Farr
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seltonfarr@shire.com
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+44 1256 894157
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NOTES TO EDITORS
Shire enables people with life-altering conditions to lead better lives.
Our strategy is to focus on developing and marketing innovative specialty medicines to meet significant unmet patient needs.
We focus on providing treatments in Rare Diseases, Neuroscience, Gastrointestinal and Internal Medicine and we are developing treatments for symptomatic conditions treated by specialist physicians in other targeted therapeutic areas, such as Ophthalmics.
www.shire.com
Registered in Jersey, No. 99854, 22 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX