Disclosure of Voting Rights

RNS Number : 7574X

Home Retail Group Plc

27 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 25 June 2008, 140,159,417 voting rights in the Company (representing 15.97% of the voting rights in the Company, of which 1.89% is direct and 14.08% indirect).

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 14% in respect of the indirect holding (the previous notification of total holding being 15.54%, of which 1.83% was direct and 13.71% indirect).

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

26 June 2008.

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

27 June 2008