Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
20 June 2007


                             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
Companies now holds, as a result of a transaction that took place on 18 June
2007, 111,544,897 voting rights in the Company (representing 12.71% of the
voting rights of the Company). The threshold that was crossed or reached as a
result of the transaction was 12%.

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was dated 19 June 2007.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

20 June 2007



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