VARIETY RETAIL LIMITED

(Company Number 05486998 )

Previous Name of Company: Variete Ltd (from 10/10/2009 to 12/02/2013)

Registered office: Tenon House, Ferryboat Lane, Sunderland, SR5 3JN

Principal trading address: Unit 24 Business & Innovation Centre, Wearfield Sunderland Enterprise Park, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear SR5 2TA

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Section 98 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (as amended), that a meeting of the creditors of the above named Company will be held at Baker Tilly (Sunderland), Tenon House, Ferryboat Lane, Sunderland, SR5 3JN, on 24 September 2014, at 10.30 am for the purposes of dealing with Section 99 to 101 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (as amended). A shareholders’ meeting has been convened for 24 September 2014 to pass a resolution for the winding up of the Company. Secured creditors (unless they surrender their security) must give particulars of their security and its value if they wish to vote at the meeting. The resolutions to be taken at the meeting may include a resolution specifying the terms on which the Joint Liquidators are to be remunerated including the basis on which the disbursements are to be recovered from the Company’s assets and the meeting may receive information about, and be called upon to approve, the costs of preparing the statement of affairs and convening the meeting. A full list of the names and addresses of the Company’s creditors may be examined free of charge at the offices of Baker Tilly Restructuring and Recovery LLP, Tenon House, Ferryboat Lane, Sunderland, SR5 3JN, between 10.00am and 4.00pm on the two business days prior to the day of the meeting.

For further details contact: Tel: 0191 511 5000.

John Orr, Director

27 August 2014