Notification of Major Interes

RNS Number : 9436F

Home Retail Group Plc

15 October 2008

 



NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

On 15 October 2008, 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):
	14 October 2008
6.	Date on which issuer notified:
	15 October 2008
7.	Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
	14%
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
	115,104,168	115,104,168

	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		Percentage of voting rights
	Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
	17,745,889	17,745,889	106,502,014	2.02	12.14

	B: 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)	Percentage of voting rights

	Total (A+B)
	Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
	124,247,903	14.16%

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	1,169,800	0.13332
	AXA  Direct	1,767,598	0.20145
	AXA Colonia Konzern Direct	57,118	0.00651
	AXA Colonia Konzern Indirect	84,007	0.00957
	AXA Financial, Inc. Indirect	61,842,027	7.047966189
	AXA Framlington Indirect	633,171	0.07
	AXA France Indirect	45,166	0.005147445
	AXA IM UK Direct	7,457,445	0.849904551
	AXA IM UK Indirect	143,752	0.016383021
	AXA Rosenberg Direct	3,114,564	0.354958316
	AXA Rosenberg Indirect	43,753,891	4.986510944
	AXA Winterthur Direct	4,179,364	0.476310651
	Total Direct	17,745,889	2.02245
	Total Indirect	106,502,014	12.13774
	TOTAL	124,247,903	14.16019
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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