HOME RETAIL GROUP PLC
(the "Company")
Transaction in own shares
The Company announces that, pursuant to the previously announced share buy-back programme, it has purchased Ordinary shares of 10p each as follows:
Date of purchase: 18 February 2011
Number of Ordinary shares purchased: 217,500
Highest price paid per share: 234.30p
Lowest price paid per share: 230.00p
The purchase, including stamp duty and other transaction costs, represented an average price of 232.41 pence per share and £506,249 in total; this has been funded from Group cash resources. The purchased shares will be cancelled.
Following the purchase of these shares, the number of Ordinary shares with voting rights in issue will be 813,445,001.
Gordon Bentley
Secretary
18 February 2011
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