Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish American Investment Co PLC
19 February 2002

Repurchase of ordinary shares for cancellation

The Scottish American Investment Company plc announces that on 19 February 2002
it purchased for cancellation 500,000 ordinary shares in the market at a price
of 190p per ordinary share. There remain 144,414,943 ordinary shares in issue.





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