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AGL - Anglo American Plc - Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company
Anglo American PLC (the "Company")
Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN
Registered number: 3564138
JSE share code: AGL
ISIN: GB00B1XZS820
Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company
The Company announces that on 24 October 2007, an independent company
purchased 196,480 ordinary shares of the Company at prices between
GBP30.98 and GBP31.39 per share. 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 20,183,518 ordinary shares in
treasury, and has 1,322,728,379 ordinary shares in issue (excluding
treasury shares) and the independent companies referred to in the
announcement of 23 March 2006 together hold 95,508,190 ordinary shares,
representing 7.22 per cent of Anglo American plc`s ordinary shares in
issue (excluding treasury shares).
Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
Anglo American plc
25 October 2007
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