SCHEDULE 13G
Amendment No. 2
Fording Incorporated
Common Stock
Cusip #345426100
Cusip #345426100
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR Corp.
Item 4: Delaware
Item 5: 0
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 276,013
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 276,013
Item 11: 0.545%
Item 12: HC
Cusip #345426100
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 0
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 276,013
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 276,013
Item 11: 0.545%
Item 12: IN
Cusip #345426100
Item 1: Reporting Person - Abigail P. Johnson
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 0
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 276,013
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 276,013
Item 11: 0.545%
Item 12: IN
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Item 1(a). Name of Issuer:
Fording Incorporated
Item 1(b). Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
205 9th Avenue S.W.
Calgary, Alberta T2G OR4
Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:
FMR Corp.
Item 2(b). Address or Principal Business Office or, if None,
Residence:
82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109
Item 2(c). Citizenship:
Not applicable
Item 2(d). Title of Class of Securities:
Common Stock
Item 2(e). CUSIP Number:
345426100
Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
and the person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent holding company
in accordance with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G). (Note: See
Item 7).
Item 4. Ownership
(a) Amount Beneficially Owned: 276,013
(b) Percent of Class: 0.545%
(c) Number of shares as to which such
person has:
(i) sole power to vote or to direct
the vote: 0
(ii) shared power to vote or to
direct the vote: 0
(iii) sole power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of: 276,013
(iv) shared power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of: 0
Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.
If this statement is being filed to report the fact that as of the
date hereof, the reporting person has ceased to be the
beneficial owner of more than five percent of the class of
securities, check the following (X).
Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another
Person.
Not applicable
Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which
Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent
Holding Company.
See attached Exhibit(s) A, B.
Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of
the Group.
Not Applicable. See attached Exhibit A.
Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Certification.
Inasmuch as the reporting persons are no longer the beneficial
owners of more than five percent of the number of shares
outstanding, the reporting persons have no further reporting
obligation under Section 13(d) of the Securities and Exchange
Commission thereunder, and the reporting persons have no
obligation to amend this Statement if any material change
occurs in the facts set forth herein.
Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this Schedule
13G in connection with FMR Corp.'s beneficial ownership of
the Common Stock of Fording Incorporated at December 31,
2002 is true, complete and correct.
January 10, 2003
Date
/s/Lena G. Goldberg
Signature
Lena G. Goldberg
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated January 3, 2003 by and on behalf
of FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect
subsidiaries
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule
13G, Fidelity Management & Research Company
("Fidelity"), 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts
02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an
investment adviser registered under Section 203 of the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, is the beneficial owner of
276,013 shares or 0.545% of the Common Stock outstanding
of Fording Incorporated ("the Company") as a result of
acting as investment adviser to various investment companies
registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of
1940.
Edward C. Johnson 3d, FMR Corp., through its
control of Fidelity, and the funds each has sole power to
dispose of the 276,013 shares owned by the Funds.
Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR Corp., has the sole power to vote or direct
the voting of the shares owned directly by the Fidelity Funds,
which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written
guidelines established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Members of the Edward C. Johnson 3d family are the
predominant owners of Class B shares of common stock of
FMR Corp., representing approximately 49% of the voting
power of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson 3d owns 12.0% and
Abigail Johnson owns 24.5% of the aggregate outstanding
voting stock of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of
FMR Corp. and Abigail P. Johnson is a Director of FMR
Corp. The Johnson family group and all other Class B
shareholders have entered into a shareholders' voting
agreement under which all Class B shares will be voted in
accordance with the majority vote of Class B shares.
Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common
stock and the execution of the shareholders' voting
agreement, members of the Johnson family may be deemed,
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to form a
controlling group with respect to FMR Corp.
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
RULE 13d-1(f)(1) AGREEMENT
The undersigned persons, on January 10, 2003, agree
and consent to the joint filing on their behalf of this Schedule
13G in connection with their beneficial ownership of the
Common Stock of Fording Incorporated at December 31,
2002.
FMR Corp.
By /s/ Lena G. Goldberg
Lena G. Goldberg
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated January 3, 2003, by and on behalf
of FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect
subsidiaries
Edward C. Johnson 3d
By /s/ Lena G. Goldberg
Lena G. Goldberg
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated January 3, 2003, by and on behalf
of Edward C. Johnson 3d
Abigail P. Johnson
By /s/ Lena G. Goldberg
Lena G. Goldberg
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated January 3, 2003, by and on behalf
of Abigail P. Johnson
Fidelity Management & Research Company
By /s/ Lena G. Goldberg
Lena G. Goldberg
Senior V.P. and General Counsel. FMR Corp.