Purchase of Own Securities

PZ CUSSONS PLC
17 September 2002


PZ Cussons plc

Repurchase of shares

PZ Cussons plc announces that on

17 September 2002 it purchased for cancellation

135,000 of its A ordinary shares at a price of

690p per share from Cazenove & Co. Ltd.



Enquiries

Shona Beckett Cazenove & Co. Ltd.

020 7588 2828

Graham Calder PZ Cussons plc

0161 491 8000

Ruston Smith PZ Cussons plc

0161 491 8000


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