Disclosure of Voting Rights

RNS Number : 1565W

Home Retail Group Plc

06 June 2008

HOME RETAIL GROUP plc

('the Company')

DISCLOSURE OF VOTING RIGHTS

The Company has received a notification from AXA Investment Managers UK Limited advising that AXA S.A. of 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies now holds, as a result of a transaction that took place on 4 June 2008, 139,912,492 voting rights in the Company (representing 15.94% of the voting rights in the Company, of which 1.83% is direct and 14.11% indirect).

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 16% in respect of the total holding (the previous notification being 16.94%, of which 1.98% was direct and 14.96% indirect).

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was received on

5 June 2008.

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

6 June 2008