Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
25 August 2005

                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 25 August 2005 it purchased for cancellation
750,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 702.8883 pence per
ordinary share.





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