Directorate Change

GUS PLC
4 October 2004



                                GUS plc 

                              Board change

GUS plc, the retail and business services group, today announces that, following
the partial Initial Public Offering of the Lewis Group on the JSE Securities 
Exchange South Africa, Alan Smart will resign as an executive director of GUS 
on 4 October 2004.

Sir Victor Blank, Chairman of GUS, commented:

'Alan Smart has been the Chief Executive of the Lewis Group for 13 years and 
joined the Board of GUS in 1996. He has done an excellent job for the Group in 
South Africa and as a member of the GUS Board. We thank him for his immense 
contribution and wish him and all his colleagues in the Lewis Group every 
success.'
 
Enquiries

GUS
David Tyler       Finance Director     020 7495 0070 

Finsbury
Rupert Younger                         020 7251 3801
Rollo Head


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