Director/PDMR Shareholding
Anglo American plc (the "Company")
Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN
Registered number: 356413
Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP
The SIP is an Inland Revenue approved employee share plan under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the Company 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 Company announces that it was advised yesterday that the following transactions took place in relation to the SIP on Tuesday 8 February 2011:
1. 5,370 shares were allocated to employee participants as matching shares.
2. The following executive directors / persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company each acquired the undernoted ordinary shares at a price of £33.635 and were allocated an equal number of matching shares, free of charge:
B R Beamish (PDMR) 4 ordinary shares
C B Carroll (director) 4 ordinary shares
R Médori (director) 4 ordinary shares
M Walker (PDMR) 3 ordinary shares
D Wanblad (PDMR) 4 ordinary shares
D Weston (PDMR) 3 ordinary shares
P G Whitcutt (PDMR) 4 ordinary shares
The notification of these transactions is to satisfy the Company's obligations under the Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4.
N Jordan
Company Secretary
16 February 2011
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