Holding(s) in Company

Torex Retail PLC
31 October 2006


                        Torex Retail plc (the 'Company')


                               Holding in Company



The Company was informed on 27 October 2006 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ('GS
Inc') that GS Inc, as at close of business on 25 October 2006, was interested
in, by attribution only, a total of 58,017,870 ordinary shares of 1p each in the
Company ('Ordinary Shares') representing 14.53 per cent. of the Company's
current total issued ordinary share capital of 399,386,472 Ordinary Shares.


31 October 2006



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