Holding(s) in Company

Torex Retail PLC
22 January 2007




                        Torex Retail plc (the 'Company')

                               Holding in Company


The Company was informed on 19 January 2007 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ('GS
Inc') that GS Inc, as at close of business on 16 January 2006, was interested
in, by attribution only, a total of 40,708,334 ordinary shares of 1p each in the
Company ('Ordinary Shares') representing 9.81 per cent. of the Company's current
total issued ordinary share capital of 414,825,509 Ordinary Shares.


22 January 2007



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