Purchase of Own Securities

Artisan (UK) PLC
28 January 2002


                        Artisan (UK) plc ('the Company')

                           Purchase of Own Securities

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 4 September 2001,
Shareholders granted the Company authority to purchase up to 43,080,000 of its
ordinary shares. The Company announces that on 25 January 2002 it purchased
850,000 of the Company's ordinary shares at 7.5p per share and on 28 January
2002 it purchased 500,000 of the Company's shares at 7p per share.

On cancellation of these shares the Company's issued share capital will be
284,212,760 ordinary shares.


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