Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi

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

Home Retail Group plc

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

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

ü

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

N/A

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

N/A

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

N/A

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: iii

Royal Bank of Canada

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

RBC cees Trustee Limited

Royal Bank of Canada Investment Management (U.K.) Limited

RBC Trust Company (International) Limited

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

RBC Trust Company (Delaware) Limited

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

16 July 2014

6. Date on which issuer notified:

21 July 2014

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

Over 6%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix

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 x

Direct

Direct xi

Indirect xii

Direct

Indirect

Ordinary 10p

40,692,718

40,692,718

50,596,094

50,596,094

6.219%

(GB00B19NKB76)

American Depositary Receipt

31,336

127,592

33,042

132,168

0.016%

(US43731T1025)

Conversion ratio shares to ADR 4:1

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate xiii

Exercise/Conversion Period xiv

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

% of votingrights

N/a

N/a

N/a

N/a

N/a

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exercise price

Expiration date xvii

Exercise/Conversion period xviii

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights xix, xx

N/a

N/a

N/a

N/a

N/a

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

50,728,262

6.236%

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

RBC cees Trustee Limited, Royal Bank of Canada Investment Management (U.K.) Limited, RBC Trust Company (International) Limited, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and RBC Trust Company (Delaware) Limited are wholly owned indirect subsidiaries of the Royal Bank of Canada.

RBC cees Trustee Limited acting as Trustee for the Employee Share Trust for Home Retail Group plc

The allocation of holdings are held as follows:

· RBC cees Trustee Limited held on behalf of the Employee Share Trust - 50,575,626 (6.22%)

· RBC Trust Company (International) Limited - 17,200

· RBC Investment Management (UK) Ltd - 3,268

· RBC Capital Markets, LLC - ,127,208 (ADR's conversion 4:1)

· RBC Trust Company (Delaware) Ltd - 5488 (ADR's conversion 4:1)

Note:-

(The overall aggregated position held represents 6.236% of the issued share capital.)

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

N/a

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

N/a

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

N/a

13. Additional information:

Calculated on issues share capital of 813,445,001 shares

14. Contact name:

Scott Roberts or Graham Horsnell

15. Contact telephone number:

(01534) 602971 / 283292