(HOME.L) Home Retail Group PLC Buy/Sell

RNS Number : 7764C Home Retail Group Plc 19 November 2009

HOME RETAIL GROUP PLC (the "Company")

PDMR SHAREHOLDINGS

The Company has received notification that Richard Ashton, a director of the Company, has sold 200,833 Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each in the Company on the London Stock Exchange between 17 November 2009 and 18 November 2009, at an average price of 321.06 pence per share.

Notification of this transaction was received by the Company on 19 November 2009 and is now made in accordance with Disclosure Rule 3.1.4R.

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

19 November 2009

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RNS Number : 7688C Home Retail Group Plc 19 November 2009

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer Home Retail Group plc

of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:

2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights Yes

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 the Legal & General Group Plc (L&G)

notification obligation:
4. Full name of shareholder(s) Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management) Limited
(if different from 3.): (PMC)
17 November 2009

5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:

6. Date on which issuer notified: 18 November 2009
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or From 4% - 3% (L&G)

reached:

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of Situation previous Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
shares to the triggering
transaction

if possible using the ISIN CODE
Number Number Number of voting % of voting rights
of of Number rights
Shares Voting of shares
Rights
Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
ORD 35,234,683 35,234,683 34,683,102 34,683,102 3.95

GBP 0.10

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of voting
Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ rights that may be % of voting
instrument date Conversion Period acquired if the rights
instrument is
exercised/ converted.

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial Exercise price Expiration date Exercise/ Number of voting rights instrument refers to % of voting rights
instrument Conversion period
Nominal Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
34,683,102 3.95

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect) (Group) Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (LGIMH) (Direct and Indirect) Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) (LGIM) Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) (34,683,102 -3.95 % = LGAS, LGPL
& PMC)
Legal & General Investment Legal & General Insurance Holdings Limited

Management (Holdings) Limited (Direct) (LGIH) (Direct) (LGIMHD) (31,597,820 -3.60 % = PMC)
Legal & General Assurance Legal & General Assurance Society Limited
(Pensions Management) Limited (LGAS & LGPL)

(PMC) (31,597,820 -3.60 % =

Legal & General Pensions Limited (Direct)

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease

to hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold

voting rights:

13. Additional information:
Notification using the total voting rights figure of 877,445,001
14. Contact name:
Helen Lewis (LGIM)
15. Contact telephone number:

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MUMBAI, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Indian department store Shoppers Stop is planning to raise funds to acquire 32 percent in group firm and hypermarket chain Hypercity, a top official said over the weekend.
The company is looking at generating 1 billion to 1.2 billion rupees ($21.6 million to $26 million) for the acquisition, President and Chief Executive Govind Shrikhande told Reuters.
On Saturday, the company's board approved an issue of 4 million shares to institutional investors and also 4 million convertible warrants to founders, but did not specify how much it would be raising.
Hypercity is the multibrand retailing format floated by the founders of Shoppers Stop, which has a 19 percent stake in it and under an agreement is exercising the option to raise it to 51 percent by June next year.

Shoppers Stop, with a total retail area of 1.88 million square feet, operates large format department stores, home stores and speciality stores like bookstore chain Crossword and M.A.C cosmetics stores through a retail agreement with Estee Lauder. It has distribution tie-ups with Britain's Mothercare Plc and German lifestyle and jeanswear Mustang in India.
Earlier this year, it dissolved its catalogue retailing venture with Britain's Home Retail Group as the venture did not perform up to expectations.
Shoppers Stop has plans to open 15 to 18 stores in India over the next 40 months with an average investment of 1 billion rupees a year, Shrikhande said.
The company, which reported a 120.6 million rupees net profit in the Sept. quarter versus loss year-ago expects its financial performance to improve in future quarters with an improvement in the retail climate.
"Customer confidence is improving, rental rates are coming down and overall costs are also coming down," Shrikhande said.
Rents were down nearly 35-40 percent compared to a year earlier, while realty owners were now more ready to enter into revenue sharing agreements with tenants than previously, he said.
Shoppers Stop, along with Pantaloon Retail, India's largest listed retailer and Tata Group's Trent dominate the organised domestic Indian retail sector. Large overseas retailers such as WalMart, Tesco, Metro AG , have recently started operations in India with cash and carry ventures.
Organised retail, growing at 25-30 percent annually, constitutes 6 to 7 percent of the total Indian retail market, estimated at $350 million to $400 million.

($1=46.3 rupees)

(Reporting by Janaki Krishnan; Editing by Ron Popeski)

((janaki.krishnan@thomsonreuters.com, +91-22 9892144116; Reuters Messaging: janaki.krishnan.reuters.com@reuters.net)) Keywords: SHOPPERSSTOP/FUNDS (if you have a query or comment on this story, send an email to news.feedback.asia@thomsonreuters.com)

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RNS Number : 5146C Home Retail Group Plc 13 November 2009

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer Home Retail Group Plc

of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights Yes

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 the Barclays Plc

notification obligation: iii
4. Full name of shareholder(s) Barclays Global Investors Ltd
(if different from 3.):iv Barclays Global Investors, N.A.
Barclays Global Fund Advisors
5. Date of the transaction and date on 11/11/2009

which the threshold is crossed or reached: v
6. Date on which issuer notified: 12/11/2009
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or 5-3%

reached: vi, vii 8. Notified details: A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
Class/type of Situation previous Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
shares to the triggering
transaction

if possible using the ISIN CODE
Number Number Number Number of voting % of voting rights x
of of of shares rights
Shares Voting
Rights
Direct xi Indirect xii Direct Indirect
40,010,606 40,010,606 30,406,225 30,406,225 3.47

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting
instrument date xiii Conversion Period xiv rights that may be rights
acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/ converted.

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial Exercise price Expiration date xvii Exercise/ Number of voting rights instrument refers to % of voting rights xix, xx
instrument Conversion period xviii
CFD 2,169,482 Nominal Delta
0.24

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
32,575,707 3.71

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi Barclays Global Investors Ltd Barclays Global Investors, N.A. Barclays Global Fund Advisors

Proxy Voting: 10. Name of the proxy holder: 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold: 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information:
14. Contact name: James Gibson
15. Contact telephone number: 0207 116 7308

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