Disclosure of Voting Rights

RNS Number : 2932W

Home Retail Group Plc

09 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 5 June 2008, 134,868,662 voting rights in the Company (representing 15.37% of the voting rights in the Company, of which 1.83% is direct and 13.54% indirect).

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 14% in respect of the indirect holding (the previous notification being 15.94%, of which 1.83% was direct and 14.11% indirect).

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

6 June 2008.

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

9 June 2008