Transaction in Own Shares

Next PLC
12 July 2005


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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 Deutsche Bank AG London on 28 June 2005, it has
today purchased 50,000 shares for cancellation at a price of 1442.78 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 January 2006 (excluding 27 December 2005 and 3 and
10 January 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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