RNS Number:3507U
Marks & Spencer Group PLC
16 January 2004

Marks & Spencer Group PLC

Purchase of Own Shares

Marks & Spencer Group p.l.c. announces that it has today purchased for
cancellation 400,000 of its ordinary shares from Cazenove & Co. Ltd at a price
of 269.0689p per share.

Enquiries

Tony Quinlan              Marks & Spencer Group p.l.c.          020 7268 4195

Jonathan Wilcox           Cazenove & Co. Ltd                    020 7588 2828



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