Result of Court Meeting

GUS PLC
29 August 2006

29 August 2006


                                    GUS plc
                            Result of Court Meeting


At the Court convened meeting, which was held earlier today, the shareholders of
GUS plc overwhelmingly approved the Scheme of Arrangement without modification.

In the poll taken at the Court meeting, the resolution received 508,790,124
votes in favour from 6,361 shareholders and 997,972 votes against from 357
shareholders. The resolution was therefore passed with a majority of both votes
and those voting.


Enquiries
GUS
David Tyler           Group Finance Director             020 7495 0070
Fay Dodds             Director of Investor Relations


Finsbury
Rupert Younger                                           020 7251 3801
Rollo Head




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