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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 referred
to in the interim results announcement of Friday 4 August 2006, the
Company announces that on 14 November 2006 an independent company
purchased 251,000 ordinary shares of the Company at prices between
GBP24.28 and GBP24.42 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 130,000 of its ordinary shares on 14 November 2006
at prices between GBP24.54 and GBP24.30 per share. The purchased shares
will all be held as treasury shares.
Anglo American plc currently holds 34,233,396 ordinary shares in
treasury, and has 1,507,420,211 ordinary shares in issue (excluding
treasury shares) and the independent companies referred to above and in
the announcement of 23 March 2006 together hold 35,255,710 ordinary
shares, representing 2.34 per cent of Anglo American plc"s ordinary
shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
Catherine Marshall
Company Secretarial Assistant
Anglo American plc
15 November 2006
Sponsor: J.P.Morgan Equities Limited
Date: 15/11/2006 09:06:15 AM Produced by the JSE SENS Department
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