Purchase of Own Securities

Bunzl PLC
08 May 2003


Bunzl plc: Purchase of Own Shares

Bunzl plc announces that on 8 May 2003 it purchased for cancellation 350,000 of
its ordinary shares from Cazenove & Co. Ltd at a price of 430.6954p per share.


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