Transaction in Own Shares

Burberry Group PLC
14 March 2005


               BURBERRY GROUP PLC:  Transaction in Own Shares

Burberry Group plc ('the Company') announces that on 14 March 2005 it purchased
145,010 of its ordinary shares of 0.05p each ('Shares') for cancellation.  Of
these Shares, 50,000 were purchased on-market from Merrill Lynch at a price of
407.5 pence per Share and 95,010 were purchased off-market directly from GUS
Holdings Limited also at a price of 407.5 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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