Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
02 May 2007


                             HOME RETAIL GROUP plc
                                ('the Company')

                  DISCLOSURE OF VOTING RIGHTS UNDER DTR 5.8.12

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 30 April
2007, 87,940,363 voting rights in the Company (representing 10.02% of the voting
rights of the Company). The threshold that was crossed or reached as a result of
the transaction was 10%.

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was dated 1 May 2007.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

2 May 2007


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