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British American Tobacco PLC04 January 2007 British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the "Company") - Voting Rights and Capital In conformity with the Transparency Directive's transitional provision 6, wenotify the market of the following:- On 2 January 2007, the Company allotted a total of 336,937 ordinary shares of25p each pursuant to the exercise of options under the British American TobaccoSharesave Scheme. Therefore, as of today, the Company's issued share capitalconsists of 2,062,213,091 ordinary shares of 25p each with voting rights. At thetime of this announcement, no shares are held in treasury by the Company. Of the 2,062,213,091 ordinary shares in issue, 604,336,627 are held by R & RHoldings S.A. Pursuant to the Standstill Agreement dated 11 January 1999entered into between the Company and R & R Holdings S.A. (then named RothmansInternational Holdings S.A.), Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA (then calledCompagnie Financiere Richemont AG) and Rembrandt Group Limited (together the Rand R Parties), the R and R Parties gave certain undertakings to the Companyincluding, inter alia, that the R and R Parties and persons acting in concertwith any of them will not exercise at any general meeting of the Company morethan 25 per cent of the voting rights attached to shares of a class carryingrights to vote in all circumstances at general meetings of the Company (the "R&RVoting Interest"). Therefore at the date of this announcement, the R&R Voting Interest comprises515,553,272 ordinary shares, with R & R Holdings S.A. holding a further88,783,355 shares over which they will not exercise voting rights. Taking account of the R&R Voting Interest, the remaining voting rights areexercisable over 1,457,876,464 ordinary shares in the Company (the "VotingRights Figure"). The Voting Rights Figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for thecalculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify theirvoting rights interest in, or a change to that interest in, the Company underthe FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules. I A M B de Minvielle DevauxAssistant SecretaryBritish American Tobacco p.l.c. 4 January 2007 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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