RNS Number:4982I
SABMiller PLC
10 March 2003



SABMILLER PLC


The Company was advised on 7 March 2003, that the Trustee of the SABMiller
Employees' Benefit Trust   ("the EBT") had, on 6 March 2003, completed the
purchase of seven hundred and fifty thousand SABMiller plc ordinary shares at an
average price per share of #3.77032.  This purchase was made to provide the EBT
with greater capacity to meet potential future conditional obligations in
respect of restricted shares conditionally awarded under the Company's
Performance Share Award Scheme and increases the EBT's shareholding to 2,050,000
ordinary shares.


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