Director S/holding-Replacment

Next PLC
7 September 2000

The issuer has made the following amendment to the Director Shareholding 
announcement released on 6 September 2000 at 09:42 under RNS No 4808Q.

The date of disposal should read 5th September 2000 and not 5th August 2000 as
previously stated.

All other details remain unchanged.

The full corrected version is shown below.


NEXT ESOP TRUST
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On 5 September 2000 the Next ESOP Trust disposed of 9,000 Ordinary Shares of 10p
each in Next plc to satisfy share options exercised by employees of the Company.

Executive Directors of Next plc who are participants in the Company share option
schemes are deemed to be discretionary beneficiaries of the Trust and are
consequently considered to be interested in all of the shares held by the Trust
which amount to 9,401,961