Purchase of Own Securities

Next PLC
19 June 2002

19 June 2002

                                    Next PLC
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                             Purchase of own shares
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Next PLC announces that it has today purchased for cancellation 1,500,000
Ordinary shares of 10p each at a price of 927.6667p per share.

                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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