Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7559E
Anglo American PLC
01 October 2008
 


Anglo American PLC ("the Company")

Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, LondonSW1Y 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 2008Anglo American plc purchased 50,000 of its ordinary shares on 30 September 2008 at prices between £16.96 and £18.87 per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.


Anglo American plc currently holds 26,333,510 ordinary shares in treasury, and has 1,316,583,204 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 8.53 per cent of Anglo American plc's ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).




Andy Hodges    

Deputy Company Secretary

Anglo American plc

1 October 2008





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