Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
28 July 2005


                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 27 July 2005 it purchased for cancellation
500,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 701 pence per share.



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