Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached:

Home Retail Group plc

2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

x

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached.

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation:

NWQ Holdings, LLC

Nuveen Investments, Inc.

Windy City Investments, Inc.

Windy City Investments Holdings,

LLC

MDCP Holdco (Windy), LLC

Madison Dearborn Capital Partners

V-A, L.P.

Madison Dearborn Capital Partners

V-C, L.P.

Madison Dearborn Capital Partners V

Executive-A, L.P.

Madison Dearborn Partners V-A&C,

L.P.

4. Full name of shareholder(s)  (if different from 3.):

5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached:

15 March 2011

6. Date on which issuer notified:

17 March 2011

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached:

3%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type ofshares

if possible usingthe ISIN CODE

Situation previousto the triggeringtransaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

NumberofShares

NumberofVotingRights

Numberof shares

Number of votingrights

% of voting rights

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

GB00B19NKB76

US43731T1025

None

None

8,338,067

4,421,349

8,338,067

17,685,396

1.03%

2.17%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate

Exercise/Conversion Period

Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted.

% of votingrights

N/A

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exercise price

Expiration date

Exercise/Conversion period

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

26,023,463 (this total represents total ADRs

converted into Ordinary share equivalents in

addition to Ordinary shares held 1 ADR = 4 ORDs)

3.20%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will ceaseto hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to holdvoting rights:

13. Additional information:

14. Contact name:

Macfarlanes LLP (FAO: Rachel Bond)

15. Contact telephone number:

020 7831 9222