BHP Group Limited — Major Shareholding Notification 2008

Sep 7, 2008

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Issued by: BHP Billiton Plc To: Company Announcements Office cc: New York Stock Exchange The London Stock Exchange Swiss Stock Exchange JSE Limited Company Announcements Office Deutsche Bank The Australian Stock Exchange UBS Zurich Date: 5 September 2008 For Release: Immediately Contact: Ines Watson + 44 (0)20 7802 4176

Notification of Major Interests in Shares

The following notification was received on 4 September 2008 by BHP Billiton Plc from Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited relating to major interests in shares of BHP Billiton Plc.

BHP Billiton Limited ABN 49 004 028 077

Registered in Australia Registered Office: 180 Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 Telephone +61 1300 55 4757 Facsimile +61 3 9609 3015

BHP Billiton Plc Registration number 3196209

Registered in England and Wales Registered Office: Neathouse Place, London SW1V 1BH United Kingdom Telephone +44 20 7802 4000 Facsimile +44 20 7802 4111

The BHP Billiton Group is headquartered in Australia

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	BHP Billiton Plc	BHP Billiton Plc	BHP Billiton Plc	BHP Billiton Plc	BHP Billiton Plc
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights								YES
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):__
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:				Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited
4. Full name of shareholder(s)(if different from 3):				Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited Credit Suisse International Credit Suisse Business Finance and Products Credit Suisse Securities (USA)LLC
5. Date of transaction(and date on which the thresholdis crossed or reachedifdifferent):				2.09.08
6. Date on which issuer notified:				4.09.08
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:				3%
8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares If possible use ISIN code	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting	situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights			Percentage of voting rights
				Direct		Indirect	Direct		Indirect
ORD- GB0000566504	n/a	n/a	73961961	73961961		n/a	3.35%		n/a
ADR- US05545E2090	n/a	n/a	8200	8200		n/a	0.0004%		n/a

B: Financial Instruments

B: Financial Instruments	B: Financial Instruments	B: Financial Instruments	B: Financial Instruments	B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)	Percentage of voting rights
Option	12.09.08		400000	0.017
Option	19.12.08		260000	0.012
Option	17.10.08		200000	0.009
Option	19.12.08		500000	0.022
Option	20.03.09		30000	0.001
Option	19.09.08		30000	0.001
Option	19.09.08		33000	0.015

Total (A+B)

Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
75423161	3.42%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited and Credit Suisse International are a division of Credit Suisse (“CSIBD”), which is part of the Credit Suisse Group (“CSG”). CSIBD is a segregated business unit within CSG with an independent management structure and exercises its voting rights independently from other divsions of CSG

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of proxy holder: 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information: 14 Contact name: Carolyn Collins 15. Contact telephone number: + 44 207 888 0241