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BHP Billiton Plc
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ISIN: GB0000566504
NEWS RELEASE
Release Time
IMMEDIATE
Date
8 March 2007
Number
07/07
BHP BILLITON TO COMBINE COAL BUSINESSES
BHP Billiton today announced that, as part of the decision to manage the
Energy Coal business alongside the Iron Ore, Manganese and Metallurgical
Coal businesses, Energy Coal and Metallurgical Coal would now be brought
together under a single Customer Sector Group President.
The current President Metallurgical Coal, Dave Murray, will become
President of Coal, with responsibility for both the Metallurgical Coal and
Energy Coal businesses. He will continue to report to Chris Lynch, Group
President Carbon Steel Materials. Mr Murray has deep experience in the coal
industry and specifically in South Africa.
Mr Lynch said the integration of the Energy Coal assets into the broader
Carbon Steel Materials group had been successfully completed and the next
stage was to combine the coal businesses under a single Customer Sector
Group President. He said the combination would further strengthen BHP
Billiton`s commitment to improving and enhancing the operations of the
Group`s coal assets in Australia, South Africa, Colombia, the US and
Indonesia. There will be no change to the group`s marketing structure.
"This combination will allow us to maximise the operating synergies between
our coal businesses and facilitate the transfer of skills and systems
between countries and operations. It confirms our commitment to further
improve the coal business in each of the countries where we operate," Mr
Lynch said.
Mr Lynch said that the current President Energy Coal, Mahomed Seedat, had
played a valuable leadership role in the Energy Coal business and, in
particular, had made significant progress in improving the performance of
the South African Energy Coal assets. Mr Lynch said that he wanted to
publicly acknowledge and thank Mr Seedat for his efforts in that regard.
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