ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC

Shareholders of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a widely held public company with ordinary shares admitted to trading on the Premium segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. Companies House confirms the company has been exempt from maintaining a persons-with-significant-control (PSC) register since 10 February 2019 because its voting shares are admitted to trading on a UK regulated market; beneficial ownership above notifiable thresholds is instead disclosed through DTR5 major-shareholding (TR-1) notifications rather than a PSC register. Institutional fund-position data compiled from public sources in September 2026 show no single shareholder holding a notifiable interest at or above the 3% DTR5 disclosure threshold; the largest identified institutional positions, each broadly in the 1.5%-3% range of issued share capital, are held by asset managers including Capital Group, The Vanguard Group, Fidelity Management & Research, WCM Investment Management and BlackRock. Reported free-float/institutional ownership is close to 100%, consistent with a large FTSE 100 constituent with no controlling shareholder.

A single £1 nominal special rights share ("special share") has, since the group’s 1987 privatisation, been held by HM Treasury’s nominee (the Solicitor for the Affairs of Her Majesty’s Treasury) and was carried over to Rolls-Royce Holdings plc when it became the group’s new holding company on 23 May 2011 via a scheme of arrangement. Per the company’s published articles of association, the special share gives the UK Government defined consent rights over disposals of the group’s nuclear or wider defence business, a cap of 15% on aggregate foreign shareholdings, and a requirement that the Chief Executive and a majority of directors are British.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

No individual ultimate beneficial owner can be reliably identified. The company’s PSC register is exempt under the traded-company exemption in force since 10 February 2019, and no institutional or individual holder is confirmed at a level that would establish beneficial control under standard UBO thresholds.

Data availability

Shareholder disclosure for Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is best described as Major shareholders only: DTR5 notifiable-interest thresholds (3% and above) apply rather than a complete shareholder register, and the institutional fund positions summarised above are aggregated third-party data rather than primary TR-1 filings, so they should be treated as indicative of the ownership base rather than exact current holdings.

Sources

• Companies House, Rolls-Royce Holdings plc persons-with-significant-control page, find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07524813/persons-with-significant-control, retrieved 22 September 2026.
• Companies House, Rolls-Royce Holdings plc overview, find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07524813, retrieved 22 September 2026.
• MarketScreener, Rolls-Royce Holdings plc shareholder structure, retrieved September 2026.
• Rolls-Royce Holdings plc articles of association (2019) and 2011 scheme of arrangement circular, rolls-royce.com, retrieved September 2026.

Directors and officers of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc

The live Companies House officers register for Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, checked on 22 September 2026, lists 15 active officers – one Company Secretary and 14 directors – alongside 37 historical resignations reflecting board turnover since incorporation in 2011. Current directors include Chief Executive Tufan Erginbilgic (British, appointed 1 January 2023) and Chair Anita Margaret Frew (British, appointed 1 July 2021), together with Birgit Behrendt (German, appointed 11 May 2023), Stuart John Baxter Bradie (British, appointed 11 May 2023), Mark George Culmer (British, appointed 2 January 2020), Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva (Brazilian, appointed 1 September 2023), Jitesh Kishorekumar Gadhia, Lord (British, appointed 1 April 2022), Alessandra Genco (Italian, appointed 1 September 2026), Beverly Kenyon Goulet (American, appointed 3 July 2017), Nicholas Lawrence Luff (British, appointed 3 May 2018), Wendy Yvonne Mars (British, appointed 8 December 2021), Helen McCabe (British, appointed 4 August 2023) and Dr Angela Rosemary Emily Strank (British, appointed 1 May 2020), plus recently appointed director Gretchen Watkins (American, appointed 1 July 2026). Claire-Marie O’Grady has served as Company Secretary since 10 September 2024. Nationality and country of residence are officially disclosed on the UK register for all current officers.

Note: an earlier cached officer snapshot associated with this profile listed only directors who had resigned between 2012 and 2022; that data is outdated and has been superseded by the live Companies House register referenced above.

Recent officer changes

• Appointment: Gretchen Watkins as Director, effective 1 July 2026 (Companies House).
• Appointment: Alessandra Genco as Director, effective 1 September 2026 (Companies House).
• Appointment: Claire-Marie O’Grady as Company Secretary, effective 10 September 2024 (Companies House).

Data availability

UK Companies House publicly discloses appointment dates, nationality and country of residence for directors and secretaries of UK-registered companies, but not full dates of birth or personal occupation detail. This overview reflects the live Companies House officers register as of 22 September 2026.

Sources

• Companies House, Rolls-Royce Holdings plc officers register, find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07524813/officers, retrieved 22 September 2026.

Group structure of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is the ultimate parent company of the Rolls-Royce group. It became the group’s holding company on 23 May 2011 through a High Court-approved scheme of arrangement that replaced the previous holding company, Rolls-Royce Group plc. Companies House independently confirms that Rolls-Royce plc (company number 01003142) is a separately incorporated, active UK public limited company registered at the same address, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9FX, with a stated business of manufacturing turbines and engines; the group’s published scheme-of-arrangement documentation identifies Rolls-Royce plc as the group’s principal aerospace and defence trading subsidiary. The wider group is publicly associated with further operating businesses, such as Rolls-Royce Power Systems (Germany) and Rolls-Royce SMR (small modular reactor development), but these relationships have not been independently checked against each entity’s own registry filing in this review and are therefore not presented as verified below.

Verified corporate relationships

Data availability

Group-structure information for Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is Partial: its relationship with UK subsidiary Rolls-Royce plc is independently verifiable via Companies House, but the wider international group structure has not been verified against each entity’s own registry filing in this review and is omitted accordingly.

Sources

• Companies House, Rolls-Royce Holdings plc overview, find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07524813, retrieved 22 September 2026.
• Companies House, Rolls-Royce plc overview, find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01003142, retrieved 22 September 2026.
• Rolls-Royce Holdings plc 2011 scheme of arrangement circular, rolls-royce.com, retrieved September 2026.