Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 3201T

Home Retail Group Plc

04 June 2009

 

 

On 3 June 2009, Home Retail Group plc (“the Issuer”) was notified of the following details relating to a major interest in its shares:

 

1.	Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:
	Home Retail Group plc
2.	Reason for notification:
	An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
3.	Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:
	AXA S.A., 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies
4.	Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):
5.	Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):
	1 June 2009
6.	Date on which issuer notified:
	3 June 2009
7.	Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
	5%
8.	Notified Details:
	A: Voting rights attached to shares
	Class/type of shares (if possible use ISIN code)	B19NKB7

 

	Situation previous to the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights
	62,282,432	62,282,432

 

	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights
	Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
	16,852,184	16,852,184	40,752,828	1.92	4.64

 

	B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)	% of voting rights

 

	Total (A+B)
	Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
	57,605,012	6.57%

 

9.	Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
	Name of Company/Fund	Number of Shares	% of issued share capital
	Alliance Capital Management   Direct	622,473	0.07094
	AXA   Direct	1,692,015	0.19283
	AXA Colonia Konzern   Direct	57,118	0.00651
	AXA Colonia Konzern   Indirect	84,007	0.00957
	AXA Financial, Inc.   Indirect	4,054,928	0.462129022
	AXA France   Indirect	1,539,653	0.18
	AXA IM UK   Direct	7,008,394	0.798727441
	AXA IM UK   Indirect	197,080	0.022460667
	AXA Rosenberg   Direct	3,114,564	0.354958316
	AXA Rosenberg   Indirect	34,877,160	3.97485426
	AXA Winterthur   Direct	4,357,620	0.496625999
	Total Direct	16,852,184	1.92060
	Total Indirect	40,752,828	4.64449
	TOTAL	57,605,012	6.56509
Proxy Voting:
10.	Name of proxy holder:
11.	Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12.	Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:
13.	Additional information:
14.	Contact name:
	Kyere Tabiri
15.	Contact telephone number:
	020 7003 1510

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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