Share Buyback - Close Period

Burberry Group PLC
31 March 2005


                        Burberry Group plc ('Burberry')

                    Close Period Share Repurchase Programme


Burberry announces today that it has given its brokers an irrevocable,
non-discretionary authority, approved by the UKLA, to purchase Burberry Ordinary
Shares ('Burberry Shares') on its own behalf, for cancellation during its close
period which commences on 1 April 2005 and ends on 23 May 2005.

Any acquisitions will be effected within certain pre-set parameters, and in
accordance with both Burberry's general authority to repurchase Burberry Shares
and Chapter 15 of the Listing Rules, which required that the maximum price paid
be limited to no more then 105 per cent of the average middle market closing
price of Burberry Shares for the five dealing days preceding the date of
purchase.



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