Block Listing Application

RNS Number : 0936O

AstraZeneca PLC

13 September 2011

 



BLOCK LISTING APPLICATION

A block listing application has been made by AstraZeneca PLC ("the Company") for 64,466,157 Ordinary Shares of $0.25 each in the Company, which were issued between 13 March 2002 and 24 August 2011, to be admitted to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and officially admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange.

The shares were issued pursuant to certain of the Company's employee share plans and form part of the current issued share capital of the Company.  They were issued fully paid and rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company.  The listing application corrects an error dating back to 2002, through which block listing applications were not submitted on all employee share plan issuances.   The Company has previously disclosed details of all shares issued under Company employee share plans in its Notice of AGM and/or Annual Report each year.

The number of shares currently in issue is 1,338,751,915.

Official admission for the shares covered by the listing application is expected to become effective on 14 September 2011.

A C N Kemp

Company Secretary

13 September 2011

 

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