Transaction in Own Shares

GUS PLC
13 December 2004


13 December 2004

                    GUS PLC: Transaction in Own Shares


GUS PLC announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch 230,000
ordinary shares at a price of 882.7391 pence per share. The purchased shares
will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, GUS PLC holds
7,510,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary
shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,016,626,590.


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