Result of AGM

Next PLC
17 May 2006


Contacts: Andrew McKinlay, Company Secretary
Seonna Anderson, Deputy Company Secretary
NEXT PLC
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Alistair Mackinnon-Musson

Philip Dennis
Hudson Sandler
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                                        NEXT PLC
                     Results of 2006 Annual General Meeting ('AGM')

The BOARD of NEXT plc is pleased to announce that, at the AGM of NEXT shareholders held on
17 May 2006, all resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting contained in the Annual Report
and Accounts for the year ended 28 January 2006 were passed. Ordinary business resolutions were
carried on a show of hands and special business resolutions were decided by poll votes, the
results of which are as detailed below:

+--------------+----------+-------------+-------+------------+-------+-------------+-----------+
|              |          |            For      |        Against     |TOTAL VOTES  |Votes      |
|              |          |                     |                    |CAST         |withheld   |
+--------------+----------+-------------+-------+------------+-------+-------------+-----------+
|Resolution    |Special / |No. of       |   %   |No. of      |   %   |No. of       |No. of     |
|              |Ordinary  |Votes        |       |Votes       |       |Votes        |Votes      |
+--------------+----------+-------------+-------+------------+-------+-------------+-----------+
|8. To approve |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|the Next 2006 |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Performance   |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Share Plan    |Ordinary  |111,257,810  |82.18  |24,125,323  |17.82  |135,383,133  |  862,537  |
+--------------+----------+-------------+-------+------------+-------+-------------+-----------+
|9. To approve |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|the Next      |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Risk/Reward   |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Investment    |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Plan          |Ordinary  |124,611,940  |91.94  |10,918,176  | 8.06  |135,530,116  |  715,554  |
+--------------+----------+-------------+-------+------------+-------+-------------+-----------+
|10. Authority |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|to allot      |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|shares        |Ordinary  |123,729,598  |90.83  |12,497,923  | 9.17  |136,227,521  |   18,149  |
+--------------+----------+-------------+-------+------------+-------+-------------+-----------+
|11. Authority |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|to disapply   |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|pre-emption   |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|rights        |Special   |133,101,291  |99.57  |   569,689  | 0.43  |133,670,980  |2,574,690  |
+--------------+----------+-------------+-------+------------+-------+-------------+-----------+
|12. Authority |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|for on-market |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|purchase of   |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|own shares    |Special   |134,809,103  |99.05  | 1,299,419  | 0.95  |136,108,522  |  137,148  |
+--------------+----------+-------------+-------+------------+-------+-------------+-----------+
|13* Authority |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|to enter into |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Programme     |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Agreements    |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|with each of  |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Goldman Sachs |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|International,|          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|UBS AG and    |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Deutsche Bank |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|AG            |Special   |127,985,921  |95.27  | 6,349,712  | 4.73  |134,335,633  |1,910,037  |
|              |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Less votes    |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|disregarded   |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|under the     |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|provisions of |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Section 164(5)|          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|of the        |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Companies Act |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|1985          |          |(6,000,000)* |       |     -      |       |(6,000,000)* |           |
|              |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|              |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|Resolution 13 |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|total         |          |121,985,921  | 95.05 | 6,349,712  | 4.95  |128,335,633  |  1,910,037|
+--------------+----------+-------------+-------+------------+-------+-------------+-----------+
|14. Amendment |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|of Article    |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|88(1): powers |          |             |       |            |       |             |           |
|of directors  |Special   |130,547,740  |96.49  | 4,747,946  | 3.51  |135,295,686  |  949,984  |
+--------------+----------+-------------+-------+------------+-------+-------------+-----------+

Note *: The total maximum number of Ordinary Shares which may be purchased by Next for
cancellation pursuant to such contingent purchase contracts is 6 million. As explained in the
Notice of Meeting, Next has disregarded 6 million votes from both the total number of votes cast
in favour of the resolution and the total votes cast so that the voting of those shares did not
affect the result of the poll.

Two copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the UK
Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's
Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade,
Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HS.



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