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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 21 November 2006 an independent company purchased 42,395 ordinary shares
of the Company at an average price of GBP24.45 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 327,000 of its ordinary shares on 21 November 2006 at prices between
GBP24.30 and GBP24.68 per share. The purchased shares will all be held as
treasury shares.
Anglo American plc currently holds 36,152,219 ordinary shares in treasury, and
has 1,505,501,388 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) and the
independent companies referred to above and in the announcement of 23 March 2006
together hold 36,630,893 ordinary shares, representing 2.43 per cent of Anglo
American plc"s ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
Catherine Marshall
Company Secretarial Assistant
Anglo American plc
22 November 2006
Sponsor: J.P.Morgan Equities Limited
Date: 22/11/2006 09:00:08 AM Produced by the JSE SENS Department
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