AGL
ANAAL
Anglo American Plc - Directors" Interests
ANGLO AMERICAN PLC
(the "Company")
JSE Code: AGL
ISIN Code: GB0004901517
Directors" Interests
The Company announces that on 5 May 2006 Mr R Robertson, an PDMR of the Company
exercised options to acquire and immediately sold, ordinary shares of US$0.50 in
the capital of the Company (the "Shares") under the Anglo American plc Executive
Share Option Scheme as follows:
Number of Share Option Strike Price Share Sale Price
Options
32,339 GBP9.28 GBP24.80
Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP
The SIP is an Inland Revenue approved trust arrangement, operated through
Halifax plc, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the
Company of US$0.50 each ("ordinary shares"), using monthly deductions from
salary, and are allocated an equivalent number of free ordinary shares
("matching shares"). Both the purchased shares and the matching shares are held
in the SIP trust. The matching shares are acquired by the SIP Trust and
allocated to the relevant employees. During the short period of time between
acquisition and allocation, the executive directors of the Company are deemed to
be interested in those shares.
The following transactions took place in relation to the SIP on Monday 8 May
2006:
*The SIP trust acquired a total of 7,994 ordinary shares at a price of GBP24.47
each, and allocated them to employee participants as matching shares. The
executive directors were deemed to become interested in those ordinary shares on
acquisition, and to cease to be interested in them on allocation.
*The following executive directors and persons discharging managerial
responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company each purchased 5 ordinary shares at a
price of GBP24.47 and were allocated 5 matching shares, free of charge:
R J King (PDMR)
R S Robertson (PDMR)
P Smith (PDMR)
S R Thompson (director)
A J Trahar (director)
The notification of these transactions is to satisfy the Company"s obligations
under the Financial Services Authority Disclosure Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4.
N Jordan
Company Secretary
9 May 2006
Sponsor: J.P.Morgan Equities Limited
Date: 09/05/2006 07:31:18 AM Produced by the JSE SENS Department
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