Directors' Shareholdings

Home Retail Group Plc
15 January 2007


                             HOME RETAIL GROUP plc
                                ('the Company')

                            DIRECTORS' SHAREHOLDINGS

The Company has been advised by Abacus Corporate Trustee Limited ('Abacus') that
Abacus, as trustee of the Home Retail Group plc Employee Share Trust ('the
Trust'), now holds 7,527,678 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company.
The notification from Abacus was received by the Company on 15 January.

As announced on 22 December, the holding at that date was 7,543,530 ordinary
shares. Since then 15,852 ordinary shares have been released in connection with
the exercise of options granted under GUS plc's former UK share option schemes.

Directors of the Company are potential beneficiaries of the Trust and
accordingly any changes in the shareholdings by the Trust are deemed to change
their interests in the Ordinary share capital of the Company. However, no
director or person discharging managerial responsibility exercised any options
and no shares were released to them. The balances of shares in respect of their
personal interests therefore remain unchanged.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

15 January 2007








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