Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
14 March 2005


                            Mitchells & Butlers plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities

Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 14 March 2005 it purchased for
cancellation 250,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 334.7375 pence per
ordinary share.


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