Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
20 August 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 August
2007, 133,484,307 voting rights in the Company (representing 15.21% of the
voting rights of the Company, of which 1.72% is direct and 13.49 % is indirect).
The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 15% in respect
of the total holding (the previous notification being 14.09%, of which 1.62% was
direct and 12.46% was indirect).

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was dated 16 August 2007.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

20 August 2007







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