British American Tobacco Regulatory News (BATS)

10 Jan 2007 11:46

British American Tobacco PLC10 January 2007 British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the "Company") - Voting Rights and Capital In conformity with the Transparency Directive's transitional provision 6 ("TP6"), we notify the market of the following:- On 5 January 2007, the Company allotted a total of 64,891 ordinary shares of 25peach pursuant to the exercise of options under the British American TobaccoSharesave Scheme. Therefore, as of today, the Company's issued share capitalconsists of 2,062,277,982 ordinary shares of 25p each with voting rights (the "Voting Rights Figure"). At the time of this announcement, no shares are held in treasury by the Company. For the purposes of clarification, the previous announcements made by theCompany in conformity with TP6 up to the date of this announcement, stated aVoting Rights Figure which did not take account of DTR 5.8.7. Therefore, theVoting Rights Figure as shown above (and which may be amended from time to time)is that which may be used by shareholders as the denominator for thecalculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify theirvoting rights interest, or a change to that interest, in the Company under theFSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules. I A M B de Minvielle Devaux Assistant Secretary British American Tobacco p.l.c. 10 January 2007 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange