Holding(s) in Company

Torex Retail PLC
16 October 2006


                        Torex Retail plc (the 'Company')

                               Holding in Company


The Company was informed on 16 October 2006 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ('GS
Inc') that GS Inc, as at close of business on 12 October 2006, was interested
in, by attribution only, a total of 57,583,548 ordinary shares of 1p each in the
Company ('Ordinary Shares') representing 14.42 per cent. of the Company's
current total issued ordinary share capital of 399,386,472 Ordinary Shares.


16 October 2006



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