Transaction in Own Shares

Bunzl PLC
06 June 2007

6 June 2007

                                   BUNZL PLC



                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES



Bunzl plc ('Bunzl') announces that it has today purchased through Citigroup
Global Markets U.K. Equity Limited 500,000 of its ordinary shares at an average
price of  718.3949p per share. The purchased shares will be held as treasury
shares.



Following the above purchase, Bunzl holds 13,200,000 ordinary shares as treasury
shares.  The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as
treasury shares) is 336,302,600.






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