AGM Statement

Brown (N.) Group PLC
21 July 2005


21 July 2005
                               N BROWN GROUP PLC

                           AGM - TRADING STATEMENT


At the AGM being held today at 2.30pm, Lord Alliance, Chairman, will make the
following statement on current trading:

In the first 20 weeks of the current year, group turnover is up by 4.2% with a
continued positive performance in our core home shopping business which is 7.5%
up on last year. House of Bath customers accounted for 4.0% of this increase.
The underlying 3.5% increase has been driven by maintaining a clear focus on
sales of our niche product ranges to our target customers . We have seen growth
in all of our customer groups and, in particular, our key clothing and footwear
categories.

We expect our Autumn / Winter 2005 catalogues to continue building on our
strengths with a further increase in the number of product options in larger
sizes of clothing, underwear and wider fitting footwear. On-line sales across
all of our brands are still growing strongly, enabling more cost-effective
promotional opportunities.

The restructuring program for our non-core activities has progressed with the
disposals of Teleview and our personal loans portfolio realising a total of
£16.25m. We expect to complete this program by the Autumn. We have also reviewed
the medium term prospects for our joint venture television shopping channel and
have decided to scale down the current level of investment.

The retail sector remains challenging and highly competitive, but we believe our
targeted catalogue and on-line offers will continue to be attractive to our
customer base and we are confident that we can make further progress in the
current year.

For further information contact:

N Brown Group plc                      Tel: [phone]
Alan White, Chief Executive
Dean Moore, Finance Director

Gavin Anderson & Company               Tel: [phone]
Fergus Wylie / Charlotte Stone



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