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AGL - Anglo American plc - Purchases of ordinary shares in the company
Anglo American plc
Incorporated in the United Kingdom
(Registration number: 3564138)
Short name: Anglo
Share code: AGL
ISIN number: GB0004901517
("Anglo American plc" or "the company")
Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company
The Company announces that on 27 August 2007, an independent company purchased
131,720 ordinary shares of the Company at prices between GBP27.90 and GBP28.34
per share, and not 610,076 ordinary shares as previously announced today. This
purchase was made by an independent company to be funded by a wholly owned
overseas subsidiary of the Company, which wholly owned subsidiary will have the
right to nominate a transferee for such shares, and otherwise in accordance with
arrangements substantially the same as those announced by the Company on 23
March 2006.
Anglo American plc currently holds 17,081,518 ordinary shares in treasury, and
has 1,325,828,740 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) and the
independent companies referred to in the announcement of 23 March 2006 together
hold 83,678,034 ordinary shares, representing 6.31 per cent of Anglo American
plc`s ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
Anglo American plc
29 August 2007
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