Transaction in Own Shares

Burberry Group PLC
23 February 2005



               BURBERRY GROUP PLC:  Transaction in Own Shares


Burberry Group plc ('the Company') announces that it has today purchased 290,019
of its ordinary shares of 0.05p each ('Shares') for cancellation.  Of these
Shares, 100,000 were purchased on-market from Merrill Lynch at a price of 387.25
pence per Share and 190,019 were purchased off-market directly from GUS Holdings
Limited also at a price of 387.25 pence per Share in accordance with the
Agreement dated 20 December 2004 between the Company and GUS plc approved by the
Company's shareholders on 20 December 2004.



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