Holding(s) in Company

Torex Retail PLC
29 November 2006


                        Torex Retail plc (the 'Company')


                               Holding in Company



The Company was informed on 29 November 2006 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
('GS Inc') that GS Inc, as at close of business on 24 November 2006, was
interested in, by attribution only, a total of 46,620,071 ordinary shares of 1p
each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') representing 11.67 per cent. of the
Company's current total issued ordinary share capital of 399,516,521 Ordinary
Shares.


29 November 2006



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