Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish American Investment Co PLC
20 February 2002



Repurchase of ordinary shares for cancellation

The Scottish American Investment Company plc announces that on 20 February 2002

it purchased for cancellation 100,000 ordinary shares in the market at a price

of 187.5p per ordinary share. There remain 144,314,943 ordinary shares in issue.







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