Purchase of Own Securities

Next PLC
24 January 2003

24 January 2003


                                    Next PLC

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                             Purchase of own shares

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Next PLC announces that it has today purchased for cancellation 1,000,000
Ordinary shares of 10p each at an average price of 774.4818p per share.



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