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Cookson Group PLC
05 August 2002



         PROSPECTUS RE SHARE CAPITAL REORGANISATION AND 8 FOR 5 RIGHTS

            ISSUE OF UP TO 1,164,093,673 NEW SHARES AT 25P PER SHARE


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