Holding(s) in Company

Sainsbury(J) PLC
16 June 2006


J Sainsbury plc announces notification of major interests in shares


On 14 June 2006, Sainsbury's received notification that AXA S.A. and its Group
companies were interested in 247,590,329 ordinary shares representing 14.47% of
the issued share capital.  These shares are represented by a beneficial interest
of 1,563,618 (0.09% - previously disclosed 0.09%) and a non-beneficial interest
of 246,026,711 (14.38% - previously disclosed 13.89%), the majority of which,
243,295,678 was held by AXA Financial, Inc on behalf of Bernstein. AXA's
previously disclosed total shareholding was 13.98%.




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