Directorate Change

RNS Number:5550Q
Strategic Retail PLC
26 August 2005


                              STRATEGIC RETAIL PLC

                               Board Appointment


The Directors of Strategic Retail plc ("the Company") are pleased to announce
the appointment of David Emanuel Merton Mond as a director with immediate
effect.

David Mond, aged 59, qualified as a chartered accountant in 1971.  Since that
time he has been in practice as a chartered accountant specialising in
insolvency and turnaround situations.  He is a senior partner of Hodgsons
Chartered Accountants.  For 10 years David served on the council of the
Association of Business Recovery Professionals (formerly SPI), retiring in April
2003.  He has been a director of Carrwood plc, an AIM listed company, since
1989.

David is also a director or partner of the following companies or partnerships:

Briskloom Limited
ClearDebt Limited
Dunham Forest Golf & Country Club Limited
Fads (Trading) Limited
Leveys (Fads) Limited
Leveys Limited
Park Court Management Company (Southport) Limited
Portcullis Securities Limited

and has, within the last five years, been a director or partner of the following
companies or partnerships:

Casebyte Limited
Croftrush Limited
Downtex plc
Pearlteam Limited
RMCB Limited
Strategic Retail plc

David was a director of Casebyte Limited when it was placed into receivership in
October 2001.  He was also a director of Downtex plc and RMCB Limited when these
companies were placed into administration in July 2004 and March 2005
respectively.

On 20 May 2004 the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Appeal
Committee upheld the findings of the decision of the Disciplinary Committee who
on 14 January 2004 had issued a severe reprimand to David Mond in respect of
breaches of technical and professional standards in relation to a 1996 matter
concerning a company of which David Mond was previously the supervisor.  David
Mond sought a judicial review in respect of the decision, the judgement in which
was handed down on 28 July 2005 and an order given (inter alia) that the
decision of the Disciplinary and Appeal Committees be quashed and the
proceedings be remitted to a differently constituted Disciplinary Committee.

There are no additional disclosures required under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM
Rules.

Ian Currie, commenting on David's appointment, said "We are delighted that David
is joining the Board.  His acquisition experience has been and will continue to
be of great benefit to Strategic Retail plc."


For further information please contact:

Ian Currie                   Strategic Retail plc                  0161 831 1512
David Youngman               W H Ireland Limited                   0161 832 2174




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