Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
08 May 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 6 May 2008,
148,624,981 voting rights in the Company (representing 16.94% of the voting
rights in the Company, of which 1.98% is direct and 14.96% indirect).

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 17% in respect
of the total holding (the previous notification being 17.61%, of which 1.81% was
direct and 15.80% indirect).

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was received on 8 May
2008.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

8 May 2008













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