Directors' Shareholdings

Home Retail Group Plc
02 March 2007


                             HOME RETAIL GROUP plc
                                ('the Company')

                            DIRECTORS' SHAREHOLDINGS

The Company has today been advised by Yorkshire Building Society ('YBS') that
YBS, as trustee of the Home Retail Group UK Approved All-Employee Plan ('the
Plan'), now holds 1,425,557 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company on
behalf of the Plan.

As announced on 22 February, the holding at that date was 1,426,243 ordinary
shares.

Directors of the Company are potential beneficiaries of the Plan and accordingly
any changes in the shareholding by the Plan are deemed to change their interests
in the ordinary share capital of the Company. However, no director or person
discharging managerial responsibility exercised any options and no shares were
released to them. The balances of shares in respect of their personal interests
therefore remain unchanged.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

2 March 2007






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