Transaction in Own Shares

Bunzl PLC
20 November 2006

20 November 2006

                                   BUNZL PLC



                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES



Bunzl plc ('Bunzl') announces that it has today purchased through Citigroup
Global Markets U.K. Equity Limited 300,000 of its ordinary shares at an average
price of 689.9562p per share. The purchased shares will be held as treasury
shares.



Following the above purchase, Bunzl holds 8,382,910 ordinary shares as treasury
shares.  The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as
treasury shares) is 340,066,039.






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