Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
08 July 2005


                                  3i Group plc


                           Purchase of Own Securities



3i Group plc announces that on 7 July 2005 it purchased for cancellation 400,452
of its ordinary shares at a price of 683.183937 pence per ordinary share.







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