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Anglo American Plc - Purchases of ordinary shares in the company
Anglo American Plc
(Incorporated in the United Kingdom)
Registration number: 3564138
Share code: AGL
ISIN: GB0004901517
(the "Company")
Purchases of ordinary shares in the company
Following the increase in the buyback programme of US$4 billion announced in
the interim results announcement of Friday 4 August 2006, the Company
announces that on 27 October 2006 an independent company purchased 540,000
ordinary shares of the Company at prices between GBP23.23 and GBP23.75 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.
In addition to the above, and pursuant to the authority granted by
shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on 25 April 2006, Anglo
American plc purchased 750,000 of its ordinary shares on 27 October 2006 at
prices between GBP23.37 and GBP23.89 per share. The purchased shares will all
be held as treasury shares.
Anglo American plc currently holds 31,216,396 ordinary shares in treasury, and
has 1,510,437,211 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) and the
independent companies referred to above and in the announcement of 23 March
2006 together hold 31,879,964 ordinary shares, representing 2.11 per cent of
Anglo American plc"s ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
G A Wilkinson
Deputy Secretary
Anglo American plc
30 October 2006
Sponsor: J.P.Morgan Equities Limited
Date: 30/10/2006 09:00:14 AM Produced by the JSE SENS Department
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