BIL
BIBLT
BIL - BHP Billiton Plc - Transaction in shares
BHP Billiton Plc
Share code: BIL
ISIN: GB0000566504
BHP BILLITON PLC - TRANSACTION IN SHARES
BHP Billiton Limited announces that on 9 January 2007 it purchased 1,000,000
ordinary shares of BHP Billiton Plc at an average price of 897.5724 pence per
ordinary share.
Following the above purchase, BHP Billiton Plc holds 25,420,000 of its ordinary
shares as treasury shares and BHP Billiton Limited holds 70,785,000 of the
ordinary shares in BHP Billiton Plc, for a total of 96,205,000 shares. The total
number of BHP Billiton Plc ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as
treasury shares and shares held by BHP Billiton Limited) is 2,371,942,002.
For further information, please contact:
Investor Relations Company Secretary Company Secretary
Mark Lidiard BHP Billiton Plc BHP Billiton Limited
Office: Robert Franklin Jane McAloon
+44 (0) 20 7802 4156
Mobile: Office: +44 (0) 20 Office: +61 3 9609 2445
+44 (0) 77 6993 4942 7802 4116
Mobile: +44 (0) 7824 Mobile: +61 448 551 695
302684
Further information on BHP Billiton can be found on our internet site:
www.bhpbilliton .com
Australia United Kingdom and South Africa
Samantha Evans, Media Relations Mark Lidiard, Investor & Media
Relations
Tel: +61 3 9609 2898 Mob: +61 400 693 Tel: +44 20 7802 4156 Mob: +44 7769
915 934 942
email:Samantha.Evans@bhpbilliton.com email: Mark.Lidiard@bhpbilliton.com
Jane Belcher, Investor Relations Illtud Harri, Media Relations
Tel: +61 3 9609 3952 Mob: +61 4 417 Tel: +44 20 7802 4195 Mob: +44 7920
031 653 237 246
email: Jane.Belcher@bhpbilliton.com email: Illtud.Harri@bhpbilliton.com
United States
Tracey Whitehead, Investor Relations
Tel: +44 20 7802 4031 Mob: +44 7917
648 093
email:Tracey.Whitehead@bhpbilliton.com
Date: 10/01/2007 07:22:01 Produced by the JSE SENS Department.
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