Purchase of Own Securities

Artisan (UK) PLC
2 April 2002


                                Artisan (UK) plc

                           Purchase of own securities

Following the continuation of the Company's share buy back programme, the
Company has purchased on 28 March 2002, 1,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.5p each
at 8p per share.

Since the buy back programme commenced in December 2001, the Company has
purchased a total of 5,850,000 at an average price of 7.55p per share.

The number of Artisan shares in issue following this buy back is 282,212,760.

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