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© Rolls-Royce plc 2005
Legal information

Credits

Annual report and accounts 2004

Share capital

 

Share capital

The following have a notifiable interest in the Company’s ordinary shares at February 9, 2005:

	% of issued ordinary share capital
BMW AG	9.21

Authority to purchase own shares

At the AGM in 2004 the Company was authorised by shareholders to purchase up to 167,764,988 of its own ordinary shares representing ten per cent of its issued ordinary share capital as at February 11, 2004. The Company did not utilise this authority during 2004.

The authority for the Company to purchase its own shares expires at the conclusion of the AGM in 2005 and a resolution to renew it will be proposed at that meeting.

Auditors

A resolution to reappoint the auditors, KPMG Audit Plc, and to authorise the directors to determine their remuneration, will be proposed at the AGM.


By order of the Board

Charles Blundell, Company Secretary
February 9, 2005