British American Tobacco (JSE:BTI) News - TR-1: Notification of Major Holdings British American Tobacco p.l.c. Incorporated in England and Wales (Registration number: 03407696) Short name: BATS Share code: BTI ISIN number: GB0002875804 ("British American Tobacco p.l.c." or "the Company") British American Tobacco p.l.c. TR-1: Notification of major holdings 1a. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are at- British American Tobacco p.l.c. tachedii: 1b. Please indicate if the issuer is a non-UK issuer (please mark with an “X” if appropriate) Non-UK issuer 2. Reason for the notification (please mark the appropriate box or boxes with an “X”) An acquisition or disposal of voting rights X An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments An event changing the breakdown of voting rights Other (please specify)iii: 3. Details of person subject to the notification obligationiv Name The Capital Group Companies, Inc. City and country of registered office (if applicable) Los Angeles, USA 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3)v Name N/A City and country of registered office (if applicable) 5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or 09 August 2022 reachedvi: 6. Date on which issuer notified (DD/MM/YYYY): 11 August 2022 7. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation % of voting rights % of voting rights through financial in- Total number of Total of both in % attached to shares struments voting rights of (8.A + 8.B) (total of 8. A) (total of 8.B 1 + 8.B issuervii 2) Resulting situation 13.00% 0.00% 13.00% 2,252,448,620 on the date on which threshold was crossed or reached Position of previ- 12.99% 0.00% 12.99% ous notification (if applicable) 8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reachedviii A: Voting rights attached to shares Class/type of Number of voting rightsix % of voting rights shares ISIN code (if possi- Direct Indirect Direct Indirect ble) (Art 9 of Directive (Art 10 of Di- (Art 9 of Directive (Art 10 of Di- 2004/109/EC) rective 2004/109/EC) rective (DTR5.1) 2004/109/EC) (DTR5.1) 2004/109/EC) (DTR5.2.1) (DTR5.2.1) GB0002875804 Com- 275,119,008 12.21% mon Stock US1104481072 Deposi- 17,722,608 0.79% tory Receipt 292,841,616 13.00% SUBTOTAL 8. A B 1: Financial Instruments according to Art. 13(1)(a) of Directive 2004/109/EC (DTR5.3.1.1 (a)) Number of voting Expira- rights that may be ac- Type of financial Exercise/ % of voting tion quired if the instru- instrument Conversion Periodxi rights datex ment is exercised/converted. N/A SUBTOTAL 8. B 1 B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to Art. 13(1)(b) of Directive 2004/109/EC (DTR5.3.1.1 (b)) Exercise/ Physical or Type of finan- Expiration Number of % of voting Conversion cash cial instrument datex xi xii voting rights rights Period settlement N/A SUBTOTAL 8.B.2 9. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation (please mark the applicable box with an “X”) Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by any natural person or legal entity and does not control any other undertaking(s) holding directly or indirectly an interest in the (under- lying) issuerxiii Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal X entityxiv (please add additional rows as necessary) % of voting rights % of voting rights if it Total of both if it through financial in- xv equals or is higher equals or is higher Name struments if it equals than the notifiable than the notifiable or is higher than the threshold threshold notifiable threshold Capital Research and Manage- 12.74% 12.74% ment Company Capital International, Inc. Capital Group Private Client Services, Inc. Capital International Sarl Total 13.00% 13.00% 10. In case of proxy voting, please identify: Name of the proxy holder N/A The number and % of voting rights held N/A The date until which the voting rights will be held N/A 11. Additional informationxvi The Capital Group Companies, Inc. (”CGC”) is the parent company of Capital Research and Management Company (”CRMC”) and Capital Bank & Trust Company (”CB&T”). CRMC is a U.S.-based investment management company that serves as investment manager to the American Funds family of mutual funds, other pooled investment vehicles, as well as individual and institutional clients. CRMC and its investment manager affiliates manage equity assets for various investment companies through three divisions, Capital Research Global Investors, Capital International Inves- tors and Capital World Investors. CRMC is the parent company of Capital Group International, Inc. (”CGII”), which in turn is the parent company of six investment management companies (”CGII management companies”): Capital Inter- national, Inc., Capital International Limited, Capital International Sàrl, Capital International K.K., Capital Group Private Client Services Inc, and Capital Group Investment Management Private Limited. CGII management companies and CB&T primarily serve as investment managers to institutional and high net worth clients. CB&T is a U.S.-based in- vestment management company that is a registered investment adviser and an affiliated federally chartered bank. Neither CGC nor any of its affiliates own shares of the Issuer for its own account. Rather, the shares reported on this Notification are owned by accounts under the discretionary investment management of one or more of the investment management companies described above. Place of completion Los Angeles Date of completion 11 August 2022 Name of duly authorised officer of issuer responsible for making notification: C Dhokia Deputy Secretary British American Tobacco p.l.c. 11 August 2022 Enquiries: Investor Relations Mike Nightingale/Victoria Buxton/William Houston/John Harney +44 20 7845 1180/2012/1138/1263 Sponsor: Merrill Lynch South Africa (Pty) Ltd t/a BofA Securities Date: 11-08-2022 12:00:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. 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