Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
04 April 2005

                            Mitchells & Butlers plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 4 April 2005 it purchased for
cancellation 230,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 343.8804p pence per
ordinary share.






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