NEW YORK, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pink OTC Markets Inc. (Pink Sheets: PINK), the leading electronic inter-dealer quotation system, trading technology and financial information provider for over-the-counter (OTC) securities, today announced that Home Retail Group plc (OTCQX: HMRTY, LSE: HOME.L), a leading British home and general merchandise retailer, has chosen to list its American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) on OTCQX®. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090708/NY43125LOGO ) Home Retail Group's ADRs began trading today on the OTC market's highest tier, OTCQX International Premier. Investors can find current financial disclosure and real-time Level 2 quotes for the company on http://www.otcqx.com/ and http://www.pinksheets.com/. "OTCQX gives Home Retail Group a visible market tier to increase U.S. investor awareness of their ADR program in the U.S. and distinguishes them from the thousands of other companies traded over-the-counter," said R. Cromwell Coulson, President and CEO of Pink OTC Markets. "We are pleased to welcome Home Retail Group to OTCQX." Richard Ashton, Finance Director of Home Retail Group commented, "We are pleased to be listing our American Depositary Receipts on OTCQX, which we are sure will be to the benefit of both Home Retail Group and its ADR holders." Citi, which acts as Depositary for Home Retail Group's ADR program, will serve as Home Retail Group's Principal American Liaison ("PAL") on OTCQX, responsible for providing guidance on listing requirements. About Home Retail Group Plc (OTCQX: HMRTY, LSE: HOME.L) Home Retail Group's ADRs will trade in the United States on OTCQX under the symbol "HMRTY", where each ADR will represent 4 ordinary shares. Home Retail Group's shares are also listed on the London Stock Exchange, under the symbol HOME.L. Home Retail Group is the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer. With sales of 5.9 billion pounds Sterling in the last financial year, it sells products under two distinctive retail formats - Argos and Homebase - that are household names in the UK. For more about Home Retail Group plc, visit http://www.homeretailgroup.com/. About OTCQX The OTCQX marketplace is the premier tier of the U.S. over-the-counter market. Investor-focused companies use the quality controlled OTCQX listing platform to offer investors transparent trading, superior information, and easy access through their regulated U.S. broker-dealers. The innovative OTCQX platform offers companies and their shareholders a level of marketplace services formerly available only on a U.S. exchange. For more about OTCQX, visit http://www.otcqx.com/. About Pink OTC Markets Inc. Pink OTC Markets is a financial information and technology services company that operates the leading electronic quotation and trading system in the over-the-counter, or OTC, securities market. The OTCQX and Pink Sheets® marketplaces that we operate constitute, by dollar volume, the third largest U.S. liquidity pool for trading public company shares, after The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. and The New York Stock Exchange. Our technology platform provides a comprehensive suite of information products and trading services for OTC market participants. Our products and services promote market transparency, facilitate regulatory compliance, and increase the quality of issuer disclosure, to the benefit of all OTC market participants. To learn more about how Pink OTC Markets' products and services make OTC markets more transparent, informed, and efficient, please visit our websites at http://www.pinkotc.com/, http://www.pinksheets.com/ and http://www.otcqx.com/ or contact us at . Pink OTC Markets is headquartered in New York City. Subscribe to the OTCQX RSS Feed http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090708/NY43125LOGODATASOURCE: Pink OTC Markets CONTACT: Matthew Sheldon, CCG Investor Relations, +1-310-954-1346, Web Site: http://www.otcqx.com/

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