Transaction in Own Shares

Next PLC
24 August 2006


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Off-market purchases by way of contingent purchase contract by the Company of
ordinary shares for cancellation

Next plc announces today that, pursuant to the contingent forward purchase
contract it entered into with UBS AG London Branch on 11 May 2006, it has today
purchased 50,000 ordinary shares for cancellation at a price of 1662.04 pence
per share.

A J R McKinlay
Company Secretary
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Editorial note:

Under the contingent contract, the Company may purchase a fixed number of shares
each week in the period to 7 December 2006, at a fixed price that is at a
discount to the market price prevailing at the start of the contract period. The
contract is contingent in that it would terminate early, and no further shares
would be purchased, if the Company's share price increases to a pre-determined
suspension level during the contract period. This suspension level has been set
at the start of the contract and is between 104% and 110% of the Company's share
price at the start of the contract.




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