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Annual General Meeting 2008

The AGM was held on Tuesday 13 May 2008. The Notice of Meeting is contained in the Annual Report and Accounts January 2008.

Annual General Meeting 2008 results

The Board of Next plc is pleased to announce that, at the AGM of Next shareholders held on 13 May 2008, all resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting contained in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 26 January 2008 were passed. All resolutions were put to the meeting and approved on a poll and results are detailed below.

The total number of shares in issue at the date of the AGM is 198,796,687.

        For       Against       Total votes cast   Votes
withheld1
Resolution   Special /
Ordinary		   No. of
votes		   %   No. of
votes		   %   No. of votes   No. of
votes
1. To adopt the accounts and reports of the directors and auditors   Ordinary    114,845,905   99.96   

50,204 

    0.04   114,896,109     838,110
2. To approve the remuneration report   Ordinary    111,183,810    97.07   3,357,979     2.93    114,541,789    1,192,429
3. To declare a final ordinary dividend of 37p per share   Ordinary    115,668,975   100.00     204    0.00    115,669,179    65,040
4. To re-elect Simon Wolfson as a director   Ordinary    115,068,612    99.49    588,295    0.51    115,656,907    77,312
5. To re-elect Andrew Varley as a director   Ordinary    114,677,556    99.15    979,104    0.85    115,656,660    77,246
6. To re-elect Jonathan Dawson as a director   Ordinary    114,092,220    98.65    1,562,545    1.35    115,654,765    79,141
7. To re-elect Christine Cross as a director   Ordinary    114,082,306    98.64    1,571,933    1.36    115,654,239    79,667
8. To elect Steve Barber as a director   Ordinary    114,140,660    98.69    1,509,843    1.31    115,650,503    83,403
9. To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors and authorise the directors to set their remuneration   Ordinary    114,779,683    99.24    881,624    0.76    115,661,307    72,912
10. To approve the Next Risk/Reward Investment Plan   Ordinary    110,049,643    96.46    4,037,674    3.54    114,087,317    1,646,901
11. Authority to allot shares   Ordinary    114,693,815    99.18    946,896    0.82    115,640,711    93,508
12. Authority to disapply pre-emption rights   Special    114,918,018    99.57    497,428    0.43    115,415,446    318,773
13. Authority for on-market purchase of own shares   Special    114,608,031    99.10    1,042,433    0.90    115,650,464    83,755
142. Authority to enter into Programme Agreements with each of Goldman Sachs International, UBS AG, Deutsche Bank AG and Barclays Bank plc   Special    109,389,501    94.81    5,986,410    5.19    115,375,911    358,307
Less votes disregarded under the provisions of Section 164(5) of the Companies Act 1985       (10,000,000)2       -       (10,000,000)2   -
Resolution 14 total        99,389,501    94.32    5,986,410    5.68    105,375,911    358,307
15. To approve and adopt new Articles of Association   Special    114,501,976    99.02    1,128,954    0.98    115,630,930    103,289

Note1: The ‘Vote Withheld’ option is provided to enable the shareholder to abstain on any resolution. It is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for and against a resolution.

Note2: The total maximum number of Ordinary Shares which may be purchased by Next for cancellation pursuant to such contingent purchase contracts is 10 million. As explained in the Notice of Meeting, Next has disregarded 10 million votes from both the total number of votes cast in favour of the resolution and the total votes cast so that the voting of those shares did not affect the result of the poll.