Holding(s) in Company

Sainsbury(J) PLC
24 November 2005


J Sainsbury plc announces notification of major interests in shares


On 23 November Sainsbury's received notification that AXA S.A and its Group
companies were interested in 174,680,464 ordinary shares representing 10.26% of
the issued share capital.  These shares are represented by a beneficial interest
of 1,497,011 (0.09%) and a non-beneficial interest of 173,183,453 (10.17%), the
majority of which, 172,663,127 was held by AXA Financial, Inc on behalf of
Bernstein. This represents an increase in AXA's previously disclosed total
shareholding of 10.06% to 10.26% and in their non beneficial interest of 9.97%
to 10.17%.


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