McColl Retail : Director/PDMR Shareholding - Spouse Transfer

28 April 2017

McColl's Retail Group plc (the 'Company')

Notification of Transactions by Executive Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ('PDMRs').

The Company has been notified of the following transactions by a person discharging managerial responsibilities and a person closely associated with them.

This notification is made in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Jonathan Miller
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	PDMR, Chief Executive
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	McColl's Retail Group plc
b)	LEI	213800R1TLR536P8YJ67
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence each ISIN: GB00BJ3VW957
b)	Nature of the transaction	Transfer of shares to Rachel Miller (spouse) for nil consideration
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		NIL	200,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	200,000 NIL
e)	Date of the transaction	28 April 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

About McColl's Retail Group

McColl's is proud to be one of the UK's leading neighbourhood retailers, with a growing estate of managed convenience stores and newsagents. Through our network of neighbourhood stores, over 19,500 dedicated colleagues serve 4.5 million customers every week. We offer a range of convenience products and services and we are the largest operator of Post Offices in the UK.

We continue to grow our neighbourhood presence and following the recent acquisition of 298 quality convenience stores from the Co-op we will soon operate over 1,300 McColl's branded convenience stores and around 350 newsagents branded Martin's, except in Scotland where we operate under our heritage brand, RS McColl.

Enquiries

Please visitwww.mccolls.co.ukor for further information, please contact:

McColl's Retail Group plc
Paul Weaver, Company Secretary
Tel: [phone]