HOME RETAIL GROUP PLC
(the "Company")
Transaction in own shares
The Company announces that, pursuant to the previously announced share buy-back programme, it has purchased Ordinary shares of 10p each as follows:
Date of purchase: 12 May 2010
Number of Ordinary shares purchased: 350,000
Highest price paid per share: 279.90p
Lowest price paid per share: 271.20p
The purchase, including stamp duty and other transaction costs, represented an average price of 277.56 pence per share and £972,912 in total; this has been funded from Group cash resources. The purchased shares will be cancelled.
Following the purchase of these shares, the number of Ordinary shares with voting rights in issue will be 874,475,001.
Gordon Bentley
Secretary
12 May 2010