Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
13 December 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 of
companies now holds, as a result of a transaction that took place on 10 December
2007, 161,198,616 voting rights in the Company (representing 18.37% of the
voting rights in the Company, of which 1.79% is direct and 16.58% indirect).

The threshold that was crossed as a result of the transaction was 18% in respect
of the total holding (the previous notification being 17.03%, of which 1.79% was
direct and 15.24% indirect).

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was received on 12
December 2007.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

13 December 2007






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