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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 Plc announces that on 23 May 2007 it sold to Billiton ESOP
Trust Ltd the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each,
which were previously held as treasury shares. These shares will be used to
part-satisfy participants in its employee share schemes.
Date of transfer: 23 May 2007
Number of ordinary shares 150,000
transferred:
Sale price per share: GBP 12.109189
Converted to USD at 1.9773: US$ 3,591,524.91
Following the above sale, BHP Billiton Plc holds 25,010,000 of its ordinary
shares as treasury shares and BHP Billiton Limited holds 23,811,714 of the
ordinary shares in BHP Billiton Plc, a total of 48,821,714 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
2,317,640,288.
24 May 2007
For further information, please contact:
Investor Relations Company Secretary Company Secretary
Mark Lidiard BHP Billiton Plc BHP Billiton Limited
Office: +44 (0) 20 Robert Franklin Jane McAloon
7802 4156
Mobile: +44 (0) 77 Office: +44 (0) 20 Office: +61 3 9609
6993 4942 7802 4116 2445
Mobile: +44 (0) 7824 Mobile: +61 409 214
302684 397
This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any
solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.
Further information on BHP Billiton can be found on our internet site:
www.bhpbilliton .com
Australia United Kingdom
Samantha Evans, Media Relations Mark Lidiard, Investor & Media
Relations
Tel: +61 3 9609 2898 Tel: +44 20 7802 4156
Mob: +61 400 693 915 Mob: +44 7769 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 Tel: +44 20 7802 4195
Mob: +61 4 417 031 653 Mob: +44 7920 237 246
email: Jane.H.Belcher@bhpbilliton.com email: Illtud.Harri@bhpbilliton.com
United States South Africa
Tracey Whitehead, Investor Relations Ivan Arriagada, Investor Relations
Tel: +44 20 7802 4031 Tel SA: +27 11 376 2121 or
Mob: +44 7917 648 093 UK: +44 20 7802 4183
email:Tracey.Whitehead@bhpbilliton.com email:Ivan.D.Arriagada@bhpbilliton.c
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Date: 24/05/2007 15:16:01 Produced by the JSE SENS Department.
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