AGL - Anglo American Plc - Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP8 Feb 2010
AGL
ANAAL                                                                           
AGL - Anglo American Plc - Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP            
Anglo American plc                                                              
Incorporated in the United Kingdom                                              
(Registration number: 3564138)                                                  
Short name: Anglo                                                               
Share code: AGL                                                                 
ISIN number: GB00B1XZS820                                                       
("Anglo American plc" or "the company")                                         
Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP                                       
The SIP is an Inland Revenue approved trust arrangement, operated through       
Halifax plc, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the       
Company of US$0.54945 each ("ordinary shares"), using monthly deductions from   
salary, and are allocated an equivalent number of free ordinary shares          
("matching shares"). Both the purchased shares and the matching shares are held 
in the SIP trust. The matching shares are acquired by the SIP Trust and         
allocated to the relevant employees. During the short period of time between    
acquisition and allocation, the executive directors of the Company are deemed to
be interested in those shares.                                                  
The Company announces that the following transactions took place in relation to 
the SIP on Friday 5 February 2010:                                              
1. 8,157 were allocated to employee participants as matching shares.            
2. The following executive directors / persons discharging managerial           
responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company each acquired the undernoted ordinary    
shares at a price of GBP22.3175 and were allocated an equal number of matching  
shares, free of charge:                                                         
B R Beamish (PDMR)            5 ordinary shares                                 
C B Carroll    (director)     6 ordinary shares                                 
R Medori (director)           5 ordinary shares                                 
M Walker (PDMR)               5 ordinary shares                                 
D Wanblad (PDMR)              6 ordinary shares                                 
D Weston (PDMR)               6 ordinary shares                                 
P G Whitcutt (PDMR)           6 ordinary shares                                 
The notification of these transactions is to satisfy the Company`s obligations  
under the Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.2  
to 3.1.4.                                                                       
Catherine Marshall                                                              
Companies Secretary                                                             
8 February 2010                                                                 
Sponsor: UBS South Africa (Pty) Ltd                                             
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