Transaction in Own Shares

GUS PLC
11 March 2005


GUS PLC: Transaction in Own Shares

GUS PLC announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch 350,000
ordinary shares at a price of 923.906429 pence per share. The purchased shares
will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, GUS PLC holds
16,075,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary
shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,001,144,560.


11 March 2005

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