Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish American Investment Co PLC
3 April 2002

Scottish American Investment Company plc

Repurchase of ordinary shares for cancellation

The Scottish American Investment Company plc announces that on 3 April 2002 it
purchased for cancellation 50,000 ordinary shares in the market at a price of
195p per ordinary share. There remain 142,539,943 ordinary shares in issue.

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