Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5510Z

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16 March 2012

 



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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 Limited on 27 January 2012, the suspension level has been exceeded and the contract terminated. Under this contract, the Company purchased a total of 150,000 ordinary shares for cancellation at a price of 2500.14 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 24 August 2012, 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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