Holding(s) in Company

Sainsbury(J) PLC
17 November 2005



J Sainsbury plc announces notification of major interests in shares

On 16 November Sainsbury's received notification that AXA S.A and its Group
companies were interested in 171,221,264 ordinary shares representing 10.06% of
the issued share capital.  These shares are represented by a beneficial interest
of 1,497,011 (0.09%) and a non-beneficial interest of 169,724,253 (9.97%), the
majority of which, 169,203,927 was held by AXA Financial, Inc on behalf of
Bernstein. This represents an increase in AXA's previously disclosed holding of
9.68%.








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