Purchase of Own Securities

Kerry Group PLC
30 June 2006

                                Kerry Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities

Kerry Group plc ('Kerry' or 'the Company') advises that today it repurchased
675,000 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 2,800,000 and the
number of A Ordinary Shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, is 184,560,310.

This completes the buy back programme announced on 26 June, 2006.

30 June, 2006


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