Holding(s) in Company

Torex Retail PLC
06 April 2006


                        Torex Retail plc (the 'Company')

                               Holding in Company

The Company was informed on 3 April 2006 by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ('GS
Inc') that GS Inc, as at close of business on 30 March 2006, was interested in,
by attribution only, a total of 56,791,918 ordinary shares of 1p each in the
Company ('Ordinary Shares') representing 17.21 per cent. of the Company's
current total issued ordinary share capital of 329,992,647 Ordinary Shares.

6 April 2006



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