Board Change

GUS PLC
17 November 2005

17 November 2005


                                    GUS plc
                                  Board change

GUS plc, the retail and business services group, today announces that Lady
Louise Patten, a non-executive director of the company since 1997, will be
retiring from the Board on 31 January 2006.

Sir Victor Blank, Chairman of GUS, said:

'Louise has made a valuable contribution as a non-executive director and
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of the Board during a period of great
change at GUS. We thank her and wish her well for the future.'

With effect from 1 January 2006, Oliver Stocken will succeed Lady Patten as
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and John Coombe will succeed Oliver
Stocken as Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board.



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