Holding(s) in Company

Torex Retail PLC
30 August 2006


                        Torex Retail plc (the 'Company')

                               Holding in Company

The Company was informed on 29 August 2006 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ('GS
Inc') that GS Inc, as at close of business on 23 August 2006, was interested in,
by attribution only, a total of 64,599,291 ordinary shares of 1p each in the
Company ('Ordinary Shares') representing 16.82 per cent. of the Company's
current total issued ordinary share capital of 383,981,286 Ordinary Shares.

30 August 2006

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