Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5922U

Anglo American PLC

16 May 2008

 

Anglo American plc (the "Company")

Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN

Registered number: 356413

Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company

The Company announces that on 15 May 2008, an independent company purchased 12,000 ordinary shares of the Company at prices between £33.66 and £34.00 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.

Anglo American plc currently holds 20,783,518 ordinary shares in treasury, and has 1,322,131,755 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) and the independent companies referred to in the announcement of 23 March 2006 together hold  111,811,587 ordinary shares, representing 8.46 per cent of Anglo American plc's ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).



Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
Anglo American plc
16 May 2008

 

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