Transaction in Own Shares

GUS PLC
30 November 2004


30 November 2004


                     GUS PLC: Transaction in Own Shares


GUS PLC announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch 200,000
ordinary shares at a price of 874.8875 pence per share. The purchased shares
will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, GUS PLC holds
7,280,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary
shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,009,180,620.


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