14th Apr 2005 15:55
Anglo American PLC14 April 2005 Announcement of notifications of major interests in shares 1 Name of CompanyAnglo American plc 2 Names of shareholders concernedE Oppenheimer & Son Holdings Limited ("EO&S Holdings")E Oppenheimer & Son International Limited ("EO&S International")Respite Holdings Limited ("Respite")E Oppenheimer & Son Group Holdings Limited ("EO&S Group Holdings")Spectre Limited ("Spectre")Nakshatra Reserves Limited ("Nakshatra Reserves")Marinda Reserves Limited ("Marinda Reserves")Theseus Trustees (Bermuda) Limited (the "Theseus Bermuda Trustees")Codan Trust Company Limited (the "Codan Trustees")Maitland Trustees Limited (the "Fairfield Trustees")Maitland Trustees Limited & Theseus Limited (the "EOS Trustees") 3 Nature of notifications received by the Company 3.1 On 11 April 2005, the Fairfield Trustees ceased to have anotifable interest in ordinary shares of the Company. 3.2 On 11 April 2005, the EOS Trustees acquired a notifable interestin 59,120,951 ordinary shares of the Company (representing approximately 3.96per cent. of the Company's issued ordinary shares), registered as follows: 3.2.1 EO&S Holdings: 47,250,206 ordinary shares 3.2.2 Goldman Sachs Security Nominees Limited: 5,000,000 ordinaryshares 3.2.3 Debswana Diamond Company (Proprietary) Limited: 6,870,745ordinary shares 3.3 Following the transactions referred to in paragraphs 3.1 and 3.2, EO&S Holdings, EO&S International and Respite each continued to have anotifable interest in 52,250,206 ordinary shares (representing approximately3.50 per cent. of the Company's issued ordinary shares), registered as describedin paragraphs 3.2.1 and 3.2.2. 3.4 On 12 April 2005, the entities listed below each acquired anotifable interest in 59,120,951 ordinary shares of the Company: 3.4.1 EO&S Group Holdings 3.4.2 Spectre 3.4.3 Nakshatra Reserves 3.4.4 Marinda Reserves 3.4.5 the Theseus Bermuda Trustees 3.4.6 the Codan Trustees 3.5 On 12 April 2005, EO&S International and Respite each acquired anotifable interest in an additional 6,870,745 ordinary shares of the Company(representing approximately 0.46 per cent. of the Company's issued ordinaryshares), in consequence of which EO&S International and Respite held notifableinterests in respect of 59,120,951 ordinary shares of the Company (representingapproximately 3.96 per cent. of the Company's issued ordinary shares). 3.6 The 59,120,951 ordinary shares of the Company referred to inparagraphs 3.4 and 3.5 above are registered as follows: 3.6.1 EO&S Holdings: 47,250,206 3.6.2 Goldman Sachs Security Nominees: 5,000,000 3.6.3 Debswana Diamond Company (Proprietary) Limited: 6,870,745 3.7 On 12 April 2005, the EOS Trustees ceased to have a notifableinterest in ordinary shares of the Company. 3.8 Following the transactions referred to in paragraphs 3.4 to 3.6,EO&S Holdings continued to have a notifable interest in 52,250,206 of theordinary shares of the Company (representing approximately 3.50 per cent. of theCompany's issued ordinary shares), registered as described in paragraphs 3.6.1and 3.6.2. 3.9 The notifications received by the Company do not specify whethersuch notifications are in respect of the holding of the shareholders referred toin paragraph 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest. The interest ofthe Codan Trustees in 59,120,951 ordinary shares of the Company is such aninterest as is mentioned in Section 208(5) of the Companies Act 1985. 4 Names of registered holder(s)Please see paragraph 3 5 Number of shares in respect of which notification madePlease see paragraph 3 6 Percentage of issued classPlease see paragraph 3 7 Not applicable 8 Not applicable 9 Class of securityOrdinary shares of US$0.50 each in the capital of Anglo American plc 10 Date of transactionPlease see paragraph 3 11 Date Company informed 13 April 2005 12 Total holding following this notificationPlease see paragraph 3 13 Total percentage holding of issued class following thisnotificationPlease see paragraph 3 14 Additional informationNone 15 Name of contact and telephone number for queriesN Jordan (Company Secretary) 020 7698 8750 16 Name and signature of authorised company official responsiblefor making this notification N JordanCompany Secretary Signature: Date of this notification: 14 April 2005 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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