Transaction in Own Shares

GUS PLC
28 September 2004

28 September 2004





GUS PLC: Purchase of Own Securities



GUS PLC announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch 500,000
ordinary shares at a price of 891.58 pence per share. The purchased shares will
all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, GUS PLC holds
4,330,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary
shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,011,726,452.


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