28th Dec 2006 11:03
British American Tobacco PLC28 December 2006 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:- The Company's issued share capital consists of 2,061,876,154 ordinary shares of25p each with voting rights. At the time of this announcement, no shares areheld in treasury by the Company. Of the 2,061,876,154 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 comprises515,469,038 ordinary shares. Taking account of the R&R Voting Interest, the remaining 75% of the votingrights are exercisable over 1,546,407,116 ordinary shares in the Company (the "Voting Rights 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. G C W CunningtonDeputy SecretaryBritish American Tobacco p.l.c. 28 December 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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