Holding(s) in Company

Sainsbury(J) PLC
12 December 2005



J Sainsbury plc announces notification of major interests in shares



On 9 December 2005, Sainsbury's received notification that AXA S.A. and its
Group companies were interested in 205,134,555 ordinary shares representing
12.05% of the issued share capital.  These shares are represented by a
beneficial interest of 1,494,605 (0.09%) and a non-beneficial interest of
203,639,950 (11.96%), the majority of which, 202,541,624 was held by AXA
Financial, Inc on behalf of Bernstein. AXA's previously disclosed total
shareholding was 10.26%.






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