Transaction in Own Shares

McBride PLC
17 September 2004

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

McBride plc announces that on 16 September 2004 it purchased through Dresdner
Kleinwort Wasserstein 200,000 of its ordinary shares for cancellation at 148
pence per share.

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