Purchase of Own Securities

SIRDAR PLC
17 September 1999


                            
                          SIRDAR PLC
                               
                  Purchase of own securities
                               
Sirdar PLC announces that on 16 September 1999 it purchased
for cancellation 200,000 ordinary shares (representing
approximately 0.418 per cent. of the issued share capital) at
a price of 75p per ordinary share.