Shareholder Notification

RNS Number : 8973I

Home Retail Group Plc

25 November 2008

 



Schroder Plc
31 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7QA
Telephone [phone] Fax [phone]
www.schroders.com

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:		Home Retail Group
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			yes
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):______________
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:	Schroders plc
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):
5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):	21.11.08
6. Date on which issuer notified:	24.11.08
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	5%-10%

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares If possible use ISIN code	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights				Percentage of voting rights
				Direct		Indirect		Direct		Indirect
Ordinary GB00B19NKB76	57,829,066	51,060,933	95,529,804	N/A	87,820,403		N/A		10.0087%

B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)	Percentage of voting rights

Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
87,820,403	10.0087%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Schroder Investment Management Limited  87,119,870   9.9288% Schroder Investment Management Limited (NA) Limited 100,000 0.0114% Schroder &Co Limited   485,343   0.0553% Schroders (CI) Limited   70,240   0.0080% Schroder Investment Management (Hong Kong) Limited 44,950  0.0051%

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information:	The shares referred to in section 9 are held in portfolios managed by those firms on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.
14 Contact name:	Vicky Wand
15. Contact telephone name:	020 7658 3750

 

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