Result of AGM

Next PLC
18 May 2005

Date:     Immediate release: Wednesday 18 May 2005



Contacts: Andrew McKinlay, Company Secretary
          Seonna Anderson, Deputy Company Secretary
          NEXT PLC
          Tel:  [phone]



          Alistair Mackinnon-Musson
          Philip Dennis
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                                  NEXT PLC



                 Results of 2005 Annual General Meeting ('AGM')



The BOARD of NEXT plc is pleased to announce that, at the AGM of NEXT
shareholders held on 18 May 2005, all resolutions as set out in the Notice of
Meeting contained in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 29
January 2005 were passed. Ordinary business resolutions were carried on a show
of hands and special business resolutions were decided by poll votes, the
results of which are as detailed below:


                                                 For               Against             TOTAL VOTES     Votes
                                                                                          CAST        withheld
           Resolution             Special / No. of Votes    %      No. of       %     No. of Votes  No. of Votes
                                  Ordinary                          Votes

9. To approve the Next Management Ordinary   137,788,278  98.7%   1,822,400    1.3%    139,610,678    136,626
Share Option Plan


10. Authority to allot shares     Ordinary   136,026,052  99.1%   1,221,819    0.9%    137,247,871   2,499,433


11. Authority to disapply          Special   137,320,603  99.9%    139,562     0.1%    137,460,165   2,287,139
pre-emption rights


12. Authority to purchase own      Special   136,151,022  99.4%    849,076     0.6%    137,000,098   2,747,206
shares

13. Authority to enter into        Special   128,617,041  94.3%   7,725,251    5.7%    136,342,292   3,405,012
Programme Agreements with each of
Goldman Sachs International, UBS
AG and Deutsche Bank AG



Less votes disregarded under the
provisions of Section 164(5) of
the Companies Act 1985                      (6,000,000)1              -               (6,000,000)1




Resolution 13 total                          122,617,041  94.1%   7,725,251    5.9%    130,342,292

14. Amendment of Article 141:      Special   139,494,088   100%    59,986       0%     139,554,074    193,230
directors' indemnities



Note(1):  The total maximum number of Ordinary Shares which may be purchased by
Next for cancellation pursuant to such contingent purchase contracts is 6
million. As explained in the Notice of Meeting, Next has disregarded 6 million
votes from both the total number of votes cast in favour of the resolution and
the total votes cast so that the voting of those shares did not affect the
result of the poll.



Two copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been
submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will be available for inspection at
the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at
Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14
5HS.




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