Holding in Company

Torex Retail PLC
22 November 2006


                        Torex Retail plc (the 'Company')

                               Holding in Company


The Company was informed on 22 November 2006 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
('GS Inc') that GS Inc, as at close of business on 17 November 2006, was
interested in, by attribution only, a total of 54,281,222 ordinary shares of 1p
each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') representing 13.59 per cent. of the
Company's current total issued ordinary share capital of 399,493,659 Ordinary
Shares.


22 November 2006



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