Board change

17 November 2005

GUS plc, the retail and business services group, today announces that Lady Louise Patten, a non-executive director of the company since 1997, will be retiring from the Board on 31 January 2006. Sir Victor Blank, Chairman of GUS, said:

“Louise has made a valuable contribution as a non-executive director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of the Board during a period of great change at GUS. We thank her and wish her well for the future.”

With effect from 1 January 2006, Oliver Stocken will succeed Lady Patten as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and John Coombe will succeed Oliver Stocken as Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board.