Director/PDMR Shareholding

Home Retail Group Plc
27 June 2007


                             HOME RETAIL GROUP plc
                                ('the Company')



                      DIRECTORS' AND PDMRs' SHAREHOLDINGS


The Company announces the following changes in interests in its Ordinary shares
of 10 pence each (the 'Ordinary shares') of directors and persons discharging
managerial responsibility, of which it was notified under DR 3.1.2R on 26 June
2007.


Notification of these changes is now made pursuant to DR 3.1.4R(1)(a).


Awards under the GUS Co-Investment Plan - 27 June 2007


The following directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility have
opted to defer receipt of their bonus for the financial period ended 3 March
2007 and to invest it in Ordinary shares in the Company under the Co-Investment
Plan. As previously disclosed, in respect of such bonus, the rules of the GUS
Co-Investment Plan apply. The resulting number of invested Ordinary shares and
the contingent interests in matching shares awarded for nil consideration in
connection with this plan are as follows:



+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------+
|   Name of director/   |    Number of     | Number of Ordinary |
|  person discharging   | Invested Ordinary|     shares in      |
|      managerial       |      shares      |   matching award   |
|    responsibility     |                  |                    |
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------+
|                       |                  |                    |
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------+
|Terry Duddy            |          97,151  |           329,325  |
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------+
|                       |                  |                    |
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------+
|Richard Ashton         |          47,361  |           160,546  |
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------+
|                       |                  |                    |
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------+
|Paul Loft              |          48,575  |           164,662  |
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------+
|                       |                  |                    |
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------+
|Sara Weller           |          57,683  |           195,537  |
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------+



The purchase of the invested Ordinary shares acquired on behalf of the above
persons was made on 26 June 2007 at a price of 451.8326 pence per share. The
award of the matching Ordinary shares was made on 27 June 2007.



Gordon Bentley
Secretary


27 June 2007




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