Transaction in Own Shares

GUS PLC
29 September 2006



29 September 2006



GUS plc

                         Transaction in own securities


GUS plc, the retail and business services group, announces that yesterday it
transferred 7,111,066 ordinary shares of 29 3/43 pence each, which were
previously held as treasury shares, to the GUS ESOP Trust, for no consideration,
in anticipation of the separation of Experian and the Home Retail Group. It also
cancelled the remaining 8,919,934 treasury shares. The transfer was made in
order to facilitate the exercise of certain GUS share awards following the
demerger.


Following this transaction, GUS plc will cease to hold any of its ordinary
shares in treasury and will have 875,520,688 ordinary shares in issue, of which
15,349,500 will be held in the GUS ESOP Trust. These transactions will have no
impact on either the shareholders' funds of the company or its earnings per
share, since both treasury shares and ESOP Trust shares are accounted for as if
they had been cancelled.


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