Disclosure of Voting Rights

RNS Number : 7425Z

Home Retail Group Plc

23 July 2008

HOME RETAIL GROUP plc

('the Company')

DISCLOSURE OF VOTING RIGHTS

The Company has received a notification from AXA Investment Managers UK Limited advising that AXA S.A. of 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies now holds, as a result of a transaction that took place on 21 July 2008, 143,305,845 voting rights in the Company (representing 16.33% of the voting rights in the Company, of which 2.06% is direct and 14.27% indirect).

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 17% in respect of the total holding (the previous notification being a total holding of 17.20%, of which 2.00% was direct and 15.20% indirect).

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was received on

23 July 2008.

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

23 July 2008