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: 20 October 2010
Number of Ordinary shares purchased: 665,000
Highest price paid per share: 219.10p
Lowest price paid per share: 210.40p
The purchase, including stamp duty and other transaction costs, represented an average price of 213.53 pence per share and £1.42m 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 831,870,001.
Gordon Bentley
Secretary
20 October 2010