Board Meeting Notification

Great Universal Stores PLC
22 November 1999


A Board Meeting of The Great Universal Stores PLC will be held on Thursday, 2
December 1999 at which the directors will recommend an interim dividend on the
Ordinary Shares of the Company in respect of the year ended 31 March 2000 and
approve for release on that day a statement of results for the six months ended
30 September 1999.