Trans in Own Shares-Replace

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
11 March 2005

                            Mitchells & Butlers plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


The issuer clarifies that the Transaction in Own Shares announcement released on
11 March 2005, at 17.22hrs under RNS Number 6767J contains an error. The number
of shares repurchased was 200,000 shares and not 250,000 shares.



The full corrected announcement reads as follows:



Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 11 March 2005 it purchased for
cancellation 200,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 333.3125 pence per
ordinary share.






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