Transaction in Own Shares

Next PLC
20 August 2007


Next plc

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 with Goldman Sachs International on 25 June 2007, it has today
purchased 50,000 ordinary shares for cancellation at a price of 1930.96 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 21 January 2008 (excluding 24 and 31 December 2007
and 7 January 2008), 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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