Purchase of Own Securities

Yule Catto & Co PLC
28 March 2000


                             Yule Catto & Co. plc                             
                          Purchase of own securities                          


Yule Catto & Co. plc announces that, on 27th March, 2000 it purchased for
cancellation 1,162,113 of its ordinary shares at a price of 180p per ordinary
share.