Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 7941N

Home Retail Group Plc

24 February 2009

 

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

 

On 24 February 2009, Home Retail Group plc (“the Issuer”) was notified of the following details relating to a major interest in its shares:

 

1.	Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:
	Home Retail Group plc
2.	Reason for notification:
	An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
3.	Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:
	AXA S.A., 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies
4.	Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):
5.	Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):
	23 February 2009
6.	Date on which issuer notified:
	24 February 2009
7.	Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
	12%
8.	Notified Details:
	A: Voting rights attached to shares
	Class/type of shares (if possible use ISIN code)	B19NKB7

 

	Situation previous to the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights
	105,640,994	105,640,994

 

	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		Percentage of voting rights
	Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
	17,954,382	17,954,382	87,083,612	2.05	9.92

 

	B: Financial Instruments
	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)	Percentage of voting rights

 

	Total (A+B)
	Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
	105,037,994	11.97%

 

9.	Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
	Name of Company/Fund	Number of Shares	% of issued share capital
	Alliance Capital Management   Direct	1,169,800	0.13332
	AXA   Direct	1,829,638	0.20852
	AXA Colonia Konzern   Direct	57,118	0.00651
	AXA Colonia Konzern   Indirect	84,007	0.00957
	AXA Financial, Inc.   Indirect	44,237,428	5.041618329
	AXA Framlington   Indirect	866,760	0.10
	AXA France   Indirect	93,564	0.010663232
	AXA IM UK   Direct	7,510,849	0.855990859
	AXA IM UK   Indirect	143,752	0.016383021
	AXA Rosenberg   Direct	3,114,564	0.354958316
	AXA Rosenberg   Indirect	41,658,101	4.747659506
	AXA Winterthur   Direct	4,272,413	0.486915191
	Total Direct	17,954,382	2.04621
	Total Indirect	87,083,612	9.92468
	TOTAL	105,037,994	11.97089
Proxy Voting:
10.	Name of proxy holder:
11.	Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12.	Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:
13.	Additional information:
14.	Contact name:
	Kyere Tabiri
15.	Contact telephone number:
	020 7003 1510

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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