LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Next, Britain's secondlargest clothing retailer, will pay an additional 75 millionpounds ($124 million) to shareholders through a specialdividend, the firm said on Friday.
When Next updated on Christmas trading on Jan. 3 itsuspended its share buyback programme and said it would pay a 50pence a share special dividend, equating to 75 million pounds,on Feb. 3.
It said on Friday an additional special dividend of 50 pencewill be paid on May 1.
Shares in the firm, which have risen 54 percent on a yearago, were down 0.6 percent to 6,195 pence at 1129 GMT.