Anglo American PLC ("the Company")
Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN
Registered number: 3564138
Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company
The Company announces that, pursuant to the authority granted by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on 15 April 2008, Anglo American plc purchased 74,570 of its ordinary shares on 29 August 2008 at prices between £29.06 and £29.87 per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.
Anglo American plc currently holds 23,136,710 ordinary shares in treasury, and has 1,319,780,004 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) and the independent companies referred to in the announcement of 23 March 2006 together hold 112,300,129 ordinary shares, representing 8.51 per cent of Anglo American plc's ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
Andy Hodges
Deputy Company Secretary
Anglo American plc
1 September 2008