Holding(s) in Company

Torex Retail PLC
12 June 2006


                        Torex Retail plc (the 'Company')

                               Holding in Company


The Company was informed on 9 June 2006 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ('GS
Inc') that GS Inc, as at close of business on 7 June 2006, was interested in, by
attribution only, a total of 61,728,475 ordinary shares of 1p each in the
Company ('Ordinary Shares') representing 16.65 per cent. of the Company's
current total issued ordinary share capital of 370,673,207 Ordinary Shares.


12 June 2006

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