Transaction in Own Shares

WPP Group PLC
25 July 2007




                             WPP GROUP plc ("WPP")


WPP announces that on 25 July 2007 it acquired 400,000 of its own ordinary
shares of 10p each for cancellation. The shares were acquired at a price of
723.325128p per share.




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