Transaction in Own Shares

Next PLC
31 August 2005

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Off-market purchases by way of contingent purchase contract by the Company of
ordinary shares for cancellation

Next plc announces today that, pursuant to the contingent forward purchase
contract it entered into with UBS AG London Branch on 13 July 2005, it has today
purchased 50,000 ordinary shares for cancellation at a price of 1483.83 pence
per share.

A J R McKinlay
Company Secretary
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Editorial note:

Under the contingent contract, the Company may purchase a fixed number of shares
each week in the period to 8 February 2006 (excluding 21 and 28 December 2005
and 4 January 2006), at a fixed price that is at a discount to the market price
prevailing at the start of the contract period. The contract is contingent in
that it would terminate early, and no further shares would be purchased, if the
Company's share price increases to a pre-determined suspension level during the
contract period. This suspension level has been set at the start of the contract
and is between 104% and 110% of the Company's share price at the start of the
contract.







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