Transaction in Own Shares

GUS PLC
17 January 2005


GUS PLC: Transaction in own shares

GUS PLC announces that it has today purchased through Cazenove & Co. Ltd 250,000
ordinary shares at a price of 948.632 pence per share. The purchased shares will
all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, GUS PLC holds
8,480,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares.  The total number of ordinary
shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,008,555,679.


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