Directorate, etc

Great Universal Stores PLC
26 June 2000


               STATEMENT ON RETIREMENT OF CHAIRMAN AND POSTING OF 
                           ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS

GUS has today posted to shareholders the Annual Report and Accounts for the year
ended 31 March 2000 in which it announces that its Chairman, Lord Wolfson of
Sunningdale, is to retire at this year's AGM on 26 July.

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Rupert Younger
Timothy Grey