BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO p.l.c.
Annual Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2011 and Annual General Meeting 2012
British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the "Company") made its Preliminary Announcement of its audited results in respect of the year ended 31 December 2011 (the "Preliminary Announcement") on 23 February 2012. The Preliminary Announcement included the information required by Disclosure and Transparency Rule 6.3.5.
The Company now reports that the following documents are being mailed to its shareholders (as applicable) today, Monday 26 March 2012, and will be also available to be viewed or downloaded on the British American Tobacco website as indicated:
(1) Annual Report and Accounts 2011 www.bat.com/annualreport
(2) Performance Summary 2011 www.bat.com/AGM
(3) Notice of Annual General Meeting 2012 www.bat.com/AGM
(4) Proxy Form
(5) Proxy Form - South Africa
(6) Voting Instruction Form - South Africa
In compliance with Listing Rule 9.6.1, copies of each of the above documents will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism later today and will be available for inspection via the following links: www.hemscott.com/nsm.do or www.morningstar.co.uk/uk.
The Annual General Meeting of the Company is scheduled to be held at The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London SW1A 2ER on Thursday 26 April 2012 at 11.30am.
G C W Cunnington
Deputy Secretary
26 March 2012
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