PARIS -(Dow Jones)- Qatari investment company Qatar Holding held 2% of the capital of French media and telecommunications group Vivendi (VIV.FR) at the end of February, according to Vivendi's recently published annual reference document.
The Qatari company's shareholding stood at 1.55% at the end of last year.
Vivendi's biggest single shareholder is BlackRock Inc with a 4.60% stake. French sovereign wealth fund FSI, together with its main shareholder Caisse des Depots et Consignations owns 3.74% of Vivendi, and Norway's sovereign wealth fund has a 2.01% stake, according to the document. Altogether, institutional investors held 92.9% of the company's capital.
-By David Pearson, Dow Jones Newswires; +331 4017 1740, david.pearson@dowjones.com
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March 21, 2012 05:42 ET (09:42 GMT)