Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
05 December 2007


                             HOME RETAIL GROUP plc
                                ('the Company')

                          DISCLOSURE OF VOTING RIGHTS

The Company has received a notification from The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
advising that Goldman Sachs & Co., Goldman Sachs Asset Management International,
and Goldman Sachs Asset Management L.P. now hold, as a result of a transaction
that took place on 30 November 2007, 52,767,404 voting rights in the Company
(representing 6.01% of the voting rights in the Company, of which the whole
6.01% is indirect).

The threshold that was crossed or reached was 6% in respect of the total holding
(the previous notification being 5.94%, of which the whole 5.94% was indirect).

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.5 (1) and was dated 4 December
2007.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

5 December 2007










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