The Committee also reviewed the FTSE 250 and FTSE SmallCap indices and recommended that seven constituent changes are made to the indices. Energis and Thus, both formerly FTSE 100 constituents, will be deleted from the FTSE 250 and added to the FTSE SmallCap index, along with Regus, Eidos and Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Trust, Pace Micro Technology and Oxford Glycosciences. Moving up into the FTSE 250 from the FTSE SmallCap are New Look Group, SIG, Westbury, Acambis, Northgate, Medisys and Paragon Group of Companies.
Changes announced today will be applied to the indices at the close of business on Friday 15 March and will take effect when the UK market opens on Monday 18 March. Full details of all decisions made by the Committee this afternoon will appear in a technical notice on www.ftse.com tonight.
The next quarterly review for the FTSE UK Series will take place on Wednesday 12 June.
