Transaction in Own Shares

Burberry Group PLC
09 March 2005

9 March 2005


               BURBERRY GROUP PLC:  Transaction in Own Shares

Burberry Group plc ('the Company') announces that on 9 March 2005 it 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
400.225 pence per Share and 190,019 were purchased off-market directly from GUS
Holdings Limited also at a price of 400.225 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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