Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish American Investment Co PLC
8 February 2002


The Scottish American Investment Company plc

Repurchase of ordinary shares for cancellation

The Scottish American Investment Company plc announces that on 8 February 2002
it purchased for cancellation 40,000 ordinary shares in the market at a price of
188p per ordinary share. There remain 145,064,943 ordinary shares in issue.



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