Transaction in Own Shares

Burberry Group PLC
07 March 2005



               BURBERRY GROUP PLC:  Transaction in Own Shares



Burberry Group plc ('the Company') announces that it has today purchased 145,010
of its ordinary shares of 0.05p each ('Shares') for cancellation.  Of these
Shares, 50,000 were purchased on-market from Merrill Lynch at a price of 405
pence per Share and 95,010 were purchased off-market directly from GUS Holdings
Limited also at a price of 405 pence per Share in accordance with the Agreement
dated 20 December 2004 between the Company and GUS plc approved by the Company's
shareholders on 20 December 2004.




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