Purchase of Own Securities

Andrews Sykes Group PLC
10 July 2002

ANDREWS SYKES GROUP PLC

10 July 2002



PURCHASE OF OWN SECURITIES AND DIRECTOR'S SHAREHOLDING



Andrews Sykes Group plc announces that today it purchased for cancellation
20,000 Ordinary Shares of 20p each at a price of 114.5p per share.



The issued share capital of the company is now 72,910,672.



The Company also announces that Jacques Gaston Murray, a director of the
company, today sold 20,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of 114.5p per share.  
Mr J G Murray is now interested in 50,796,257 Ordinary Shares in the Company
representing 69.67 per cent. of the issued share capital.




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