Shareholder Notification

RNS Number : 7945K

Home Retail Group Plc

24 December 2008

 



NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

On 23 December 2008, 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 December 2008
6.	Date on which issuer notified:
	24 December 2008
7.	Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
	13%
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
	114,049,876	114,049,876

	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		Percentage of voting rights
	Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
	17,766,738	17,766,738	96,363,209	2.02	10.98

	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
	114,129,947	13.01%

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	1,847,349	0.21054
	AXA Colonia Konzern Direct	57,118	0.00651
	AXA Colonia Konzern Indirect	84,007	0.00957
	AXA Financial, Inc. Indirect	52,985,527	6.038615177
	AXA Framlington Indirect	651,760	0.07
	AXA France Indirect	125,221	0.014271094
	AXA IM UK Direct	7,446,055	0.848606464
	AXA IM UK Indirect	143,752	0.016383021
	AXA Rosenberg Direct	3,114,564	0.354958316
	AXA Rosenberg Indirect	42,372,942	4.829127974
	AXA Winterthur Direct	4,131,852	0.470895839
	Total Direct	17,766,738	2.02483
	Total Indirect	96,363,209	10.98225
	TOTAL	114,129,947	13.00708
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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