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SABMiller PLC05 December 2006 SABMILLER PLC INTERIM DIVIDEND CURRENCY CONVERSION - STERLING 5 December 2006 In its Interim Results announcement for the six months ended 30 September 2006,published on 9 November 2006, SABMiller plc announced that the exchange rates tobe used to determine the Sterling and Rand equivalent of the interim dividend of14 US cents per share would be calculated using the exchange rates prevailing on16 November 2006 for the Rand equivalent and 4 December 2006 for the Sterlingequivalent. On 17 November 2006, the Company announced that the rate of exchange determinedfor converting to South African Rands was R:US$ = 7.14510, resulting in anequivalent interim dividend of 100.03140 SA cents per share. The rate of exchange determined on 4 December 2006 for converting to Sterling isUS$:£ = 1.9789, resulting in an equivalent interim dividend of 7.07464 UK penceper share. The interim dividend will be payable on 22 December 2006 to all shareholdersregistered on the London or Johannesburg registers on 1 December 2006. Theex-dividend trading dates were 29 November 2006 on the London Stock Exchange(LSE) and 27 November 2006 on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Limited. John DavidsonCompany Secretary This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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