Purchase of Own Securities

Artisan (UK) PLC
19 December 2001


                               Artisan (UK) plc

                          Purchase of Own Securities

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 4 September 2001,
Shareholders granted the Company authority to purchase up to 43,080,000
ordinary shares.


The Company announces that it has on 18 December 2001 purchased 1,500,000 of
the Company's ordinary shares at 7.625p per share. On cancellation of these
shares the Company's issued share capital will be 285,712,760 ordinary shares.