Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
18 September 2007


                             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
Companies now holds, as a result of a transaction that took place on 16 Setember
2007, 147,661,893 voting rights in the Company (representing 16.83% of the
voting rights of the Company, of which 1.82% is direct and 15.01% is indirect).

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 15% in respect
of the indirect holding (the previous notification being 16.02%, of which 1.82%
was direct and 14.20% was indirect).

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was dated 17 September
2007.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

18 September 2007









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