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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: GB00B1XZS820
("Anglo American plc" or "the company")
Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company
The Company announces that on 27 June 2008, an independent company purchased
26,851 ordinary shares of the Company at prices between GBP32.54 and GBP33.89
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 1,322,131,755 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) and the
independent companies referred to in the announcement of 23 March 2006 together
hold 112,300,129 ordinary shares, representing 8.49 per cent of Anglo American
plc`s ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
Anglo American plc
30 June 2008
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