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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
Short name: Anglo
Share code: AGL
ISIN number: GB00B1XZS820
Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company
The Company announces that on 28 December 2007, an independent company
purchased 26,665 ordinary shares of the Company at prices between GBP30.82
and GBP31.22 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 20,783,518 ordinary shares in treasury,
and has 1,322,128,379 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares)
and the independent companies referred to in the announcement of 23 March
2006 together hold 106,326,348 ordinary shares, representing 8.04 per
cent of Anglo American plc`s ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury
shares).
Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
Anglo American plc
31 December 2007
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