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Glencore International PLC
02 May 2013
2 May 2013
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JURISDICTION
NEWS RELEASE
Glencore International plc
Merger Update - Merger completed
Glencore is pleased to announce that the New Scheme and the
Merger have now become effective and the entire issued ordinary
share capital of Xstrata is owned by the Glencore Group.
Scheme Shareholders on the register at the Scheme Record Time,
being 6.00 p.m. on 30 April 2013, will receive 3.05 New Glencore
Shares for each Scheme Share held.
Admission of 6,163,949,435 New Glencore Shares to the premium
listing segment of the Official List and to trading on the London
Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities is expected to
occur with effect from 8.00 a.m. (London time) on 3 May 2013. The
listing of and permission to deal in the New Glencore Shares on the
Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is expected to occur
with effect from 9.30 a.m. (Hong Kong time) on 6 May 2013.
Settlement of the New Glencore Shares held through CREST is
expected to take place by 8.00 a.m. (London time) on 3 May 2013.
Share certificates in relation to the New Glencore Shares to be
held in certificated form will be despatched by no later than 16
May 2013.
Admission to trading of Xstrata Shares on the London Stock
Exchange's main market for listed securities and listing of Xstrata
Shares on the Official List of the UK Listing Authority are
expected to be cancelled with effect from 8.00 a.m. (London time)
on 3 May 2013. The official cancellation of the secondary listing
of the Xstrata Shares on the SIX Swiss Stock Exchange is expected
to take effect on, and including, 6 May 2013.
Combined Group Update
Glencore Xstrata will host an investor conference call at 1.00
p.m. UK time on Friday 3 May 2013. Dial-in details will be provided
on the Glencore Xstrata website (www.glencorexstrataplc.com) later
today.
A live audio-visual webcast of the presentation will be
available on the Investor section of the Glencore Xstrata website
(www.glencorexstrataplc.com) from 1.00 p.m. UK time. A full replay
facility will be available within 24 hours of the presentation
being held.
An accompanying investor presentation will also be available for
download from 9.00 a.m. UK time on 3 May 2013.
The change of name of Glencore International plc to "Glencore
Xstrata plc" is expected to become effective in Jersey later
today.
In accordance with previous announcements, the directors of the
Combined Group are now Sir John Bond (Chairman), Ivan Glasenberg,
Leonhard Fischer, Anthony Hayward, William Macaulay, Con
Fauconnier, Peter Hooley, Sir Steve Robson and Ian Strachan.
Pursuant to DTR 5.6.1 of the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency
Rules, Glencore notifies the market of the following:
Glencore's issued voting share capital now consists of
13,263,405,466 ordinary shares of U.S.$0.01 each. Each ordinary
share carries one voting right. Glencore holds no shares in
treasury.
Therefore, the total number of voting rights in Glencore is now
13,263,405,466.
The above figure of 13,263,405,466 may be used by shareholders
as the denominator for the calculations by which they will
determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a
change to their interest in, Glencore under the FCA's Disclosure
and Transparency Rules.
Capitalised terms used in this announcement, unless defined
herein, have the same meanings as set out in the prospectus
published by Glencore dated 31 May 2012, as supplemented by the
Supplementary Prospectuses.
For enquiries about Glencore, please contact:
Paul Smith (Investors) Charles Watenphul (Media) John Burton (Company
T:+41 (0)41 709 2487 t: +41 (0) 41 709 2462 Secretary)
m: +41 (0)79 947 m: +41 (0) 79 904 33 t: +41 (0)41 709 2619
1348 20 e:charles.watenphul@glencore.com m: +41 (0)79 944 5434
e: paul.smith@glencore.com e:john.burton@glencore.com
Martin Fewings (Investors) Finsbury (Media)
t: +41 (0)41 709 Elisa Morniroli (Investors) Guy Lamming
2880 t: +41 (0) 41 709 2818 Dorothy Burwell
m: +41 (0)79 737 m: +41 (0) 79 833 05 t: +44 (0)20 7251 3801
5642 08 e:elisa.morniroli@glencore.com
e:martin.fewings@glencore.com
Publication on Website
A copy of this announcement will be available on Glencore's
website (www.glencorexstrataplc.com) by no later than 12 noon
(London time) on the business day following the date of this
announcement.
You may request a hard copy of this announcement, free of
charge, by contacting the Company Secretary of Glencore, John
Burton, at john.burton@glencore.com. You may also request that all
future documents, announcements and information to be sent to you
in relation to the Merger should be in hard copy form.
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