RNS Number:8844Y
SABMiller PLC
20 May 2004


                              SABMiller plc
                           Directorate Change


London: 20 May 2004

The Board of Directors of SABMiller plc ('the Board') announces that the
following changes to the Board and its Remunerations Committee will take effect
after the forthcoming Annual General Meeting scheduled for 29 July 2004

*    Mr MJ Levett retires from the Board by rotation and will not stand for
     re-election (Mr Levett is Chairman of Old Mutual plc, a shareholder in the
     Company);

*    Mr LS Camilleri will step down from the Board (Mr Camilleri is President
     and CEO of Altria Group, Inc. ('Altria') and is an Altria nominee to the
     Board);

*    Altria does not intend to exercise its right to replace Mr Camilleri with
     another nominee on the Board in the near term;

*    A new, independent non-executive director (who is in the course of being
     recruited) will be appointed to the Board to serve from 01 August 2004;

*    Mr JM Kahn (Chairman of the Board) will step down from the Remuneration
     Committee at the end of July 2004, while Lord Renwick will hand on the
     Chair of the Remuneration Committee to Mr MQ Morland at that time.


AOC Tonkinson
Company Secretary


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