Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
18 October 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 October
2007, 144,400,564 voting rights in the Company (representing 16.46% of the
voting rights of the Company, of which 1.82% is direct and 14.64% is indirect).

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 17.00% in
respect of the total holding (the previous notification being 17.00%, of which
1.82% was direct and 15.18% was indirect).

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

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

18 October 2007



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