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Company Announcement: Application for Listing
Zug, Monday, 4 December 2006
Application has been made to the Financial Services Authority in its capacity as UK Listing Authority and to the London Stock Exchange for a block listing of an additional two million six hundred and fifty two thousand and six hundred (2,652,600) ordinary shares of US$0.50 each in Xstrata plc (“the Shares”) to be issued upon conversion of Xstrata Capital Corporation A.V.V. US$600,000,000 3.95 per cent Guaranteed Convertible Bonds due 2010 (the “Bonds”), to trade on the London Stock Exchange and to be admitted to the Official List upon issuance. The Shares will rank pari passu with the existing issued shares of the Company.
The application in respect of the additional Shares is the consequence of an adjustment made to the Exchange Price (as defined in the Terms and Conditions of the Bonds) of the Bonds on 5th October 2006 following Xstrata plc’s Rights Issue dated 3rd October 2006. At the present date and following the adjustment, twenty four million five hundred and sixteen thousand, five hundred and fifty (24,516,550) Shares have yet to be issued and allotted upon conversion of the Bonds.
Xstrata plc ordinary shares are also listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange.
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