Transaction in Own Shares

Bunzl PLC
12 July 2007

 Thursday 12 July 2007

                                   BUNZL PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

Bunzl plc ('Bunzl') announces that it has today purchased through Citigroup
Global Markets U.K. Equity Limited 8,661 of its ordinary shares at a price of
689p per share. The purchased shares will be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, Bunzl holds 19,382,000 ordinary shares as treasury
shares.  The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as
treasury shares) is 330,139,261.



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