Holding(s) in Company

Torex Retail PLC
28 February 2006


                        Torex Retail plc (the 'Company')


                               Holding in Company



The Company was informed on 28 February 2006 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
('GS Inc') that GS Inc is interested in, by attribution only, a total of
31,987,675 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares')
representing 9.79 per cent. of the Company's current total issued ordinary share
capital of 326,676,191 Ordinary Shares.


28 February 2006






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