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BIL - BHP Billiton Plc - Transaction in shares
BHP Billiton Plc
Share code: BIL
ISIN: GB0000566504
Issued by: BHP Billiton Plc
BHP Billiton Limited
To: London Stock Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
Cc: New York Stock Exchange
JSE Limited, Swiss Stock Exchange
Deutsche Bank, UBS Zurich
Date: 7 September 2007
BHP BILLITON PLC - TRANSACTION IN SHARES
BHP Billiton Plc announces that on 7 September 2007 it sold to Billiton
ESOP Trust Ltd the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each,
which were previously held as treasury shares. These shares will be used to
part-satisfy participants in its employee share schemes.
Date of transfer: 7 September 2007
Number of ordinary shares 300,000
transferred:
Sale price per share: GBP14.368256
Converted to USD at 2.0251: US$ 29.097155
Following the above sale, BHP Billiton Plc holds 24,310,000 of its ordinary
shares as treasury shares and BHP Billiton Limited holds 30,766,226 of the
ordinary shares in BHP Billiton Plc, a total of 55,076,226 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
2,272,949,062.
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 Mob: +61 Tel: +44 20 7802 4156 Mob: +44
400 693 915 7769 934 942
email: email:
Samantha.Evans@bhpbilliton.com Mark.Lidiard@bhpbilliton.com
Jane Belcher, Investor Relations Illtud Harri, Media Relations
Tel: +61 3 9609 3952 Mob: +61 4 Tel: +44 20 7802 4195 Mob: +44
417 031 653 7920 237 246
email: email:
Jane.H.Belcher@bhpbilliton.com Illtud.Harri@bhpbilliton.com
United States South Africa
Tracey Whitehead, Investor Ivan Arriagada, Investor
Relations Relations
Tel: +44 20 7802 4031 Mob: +44 Tel SA: +27 11 376 2121 or UK:
7917 648 093 +44 20 7802 4183
email: email:
Tracey.Whitehead@bhpbilliton.com Ivan.D.Arriagada@bhpbilliton.com
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