Holding(s) in Company

Sainsbury(J) PLC
16 December 2005



J Sainsbury plc announces notification of major interests in shares



On 15 December 2005, Sainsbury's received notification that AXA S.A. and its
Group companies were interested in 208,926,783 ordinary shares representing
12.27% of the issued share capital.  These shares are represented by a
beneficial interest of 1,559,605 (0.09%) and a non-beneficial interest of
207,367,178 (12.18% - previously disclosed 11.96%), the majority of which,
206,275,324 was held by AXA Financial, Inc on behalf of Bernstein. AXA's
previously disclosed total shareholding was 12.05%.






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