Holding(s) in Company

Torex Retail PLC
23 November 2006


                        Torex Retail plc (the 'Company')


                               Holding in Company



The Company was informed on 23 November 2006 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
('GS Inc') that GS Inc, as at close of business on 20 November 2006, was
interested in, by attribution only, a total of 47,982,222 ordinary shares of 1p
each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') representing 12.01 per cent. of the
Company's current total issued ordinary share capital of 399,493,656 Ordinary
Shares.


23 November 2006



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