Purchase of Own Securities

Kerry Group PLC
29 June 2006

                                Kerry Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


Kerry Group plc ('Kerry' or 'the Company') advises that yesterday it repurchased
1,100,000 A Ordinary Shares. These A Ordinary Shares were repurchased at a price
of €17.10.


All of these A Ordinary Shares repurchased will be held in treasury. Following
this repurchase the number of A Ordinary Shares in treasury is 1,350,000 and the
number of A Ordinary Shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, is 186,010,310.




29 June, 2006


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