Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
02 September 2005

Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 2 September 2005 it purchased for
cancellation 301,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 375.1858 pence per
ordinary share.

This now concludes the £100m share repurchase programme for the 2005 financial
year which we announced at the time of the Preliminary Results on 1 December
2004'


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