Transaction in Own Shares

McBride PLC
15 September 2004


                          McBride plc ('the Company')
                             Purchase of own shares


McBride plc announces that on 14 September 2004 it purchased through Dresdner
Kleinwort Wasserstein 100,000 of its ordinary shares for cancellation at 150.5
pence per share.


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