RNS Number:1435Z
Andrews Sykes Group PLC
25 July 2002



ANDREWS SYKES GROUP PLC
25 July 2002



PURCHASE OF OWN SECURITIES AND DIRECTOR'S SHAREHOLDING

Andrews Sykes Group plc announces that today it purchased for cancellation
130,000 Ordinary Shares of 20p each at a price of 112.5p per share.

The issued share capital of the Company is now 72,029,272 Ordinary Shares.

The Company also announces that Jacques Gaston Murray, a director of the
Company, today sold 20,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of 112.5p per share.  Mr J
G Murray is now interested in 50,576,257 Ordinary Shares in the Company
representing 70.22 per cent. of the issued share capital.



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