Disclosure of Voting Rights

RNS Number : 4970A

Home Retail Group Plc

01 August 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 30 July 2008, 135,216,577 voting rights in the Company (representing 15.41% of the voting rights in the Company, of which 2.06% is direct and 13.35% indirect).  

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 16% in respect of the total holding (the previous notification being a total holding of 16.33%, of which 2.06% was direct and 14.27% indirect).

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

1 August 2008.

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

1 August 2008

 

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