RNS Number:9022L
Signet Group PLC
04 June 2003

                                  SCHEDULE 10

                   NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1) Name of company

SIGNET GROUP plc

2) Name of shareholder having a major interest

AMVESCAP PLC and INVESCO Perpetual High Income Fund

3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

NON BENEFICIAL INTEREST. PLEASE SEE LETTER BELOW FROM AMVESCAP PLC

4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them

SEE BELOW.


5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired

N/A

6) Percentage of issued class

N/A

7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

SEE BELOW

8) Percentage of issued class

0.068%

9) Class of security

0.5p ORDINARY SHARES

10) Date of transaction

SEE BELOW

11) Date company informed

3 June 2003


12) Total holding following this notification

SEE BELOW


13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

SEE BELOW

14) Any additional information

-

15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

ANNE KEATES

0870 909 0301

16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification



Date of notification ..4 June 2003.....


LETTER FROM AMVESCAP PLC

2 June 2003

SECTION 198 COMPANIES ACT 1985 ("THE ACT")

We write to give you notice that, following the sale of 1,170,000 shares on 30
May 2003, AMVESCAP PLC (AMVESCAP) and subsidiary companies on behalf of
discretionary clients have an interest within the meaning of Part VI of the Act
in 187,791,767 Ordinary 0.5p Shares of your Company (representing 10.95%);
details of that interest, together with a breakdown between registered holders
(as required by Section 202(3) of the Act), are set out below:-

Vidacos Nominees Limited                                         153,102,199
HSBC Nominees Limited                                             20,347,965
Chase Nominees Limited                                             3,284,632
Northern Trust Nominees Limited                                    3,095,589
Bank of New York Nominees Limited                                  7,961,382

We wish to advise you that none of these shares are beneficially owned by
AMVESCAP. Subsidiary companies of AMVESCAP have a large number of portfolio
management clients for whom they act as investment manager and investment
advisor and by virtue of Section 203 of the Companies Act 1985 AMVESCAP is
deemed to have the same interest in the shares.

We would further advise that the above holding includes the following notifiable
holding: INVESCO Perpetual High Income Fund holds 85,270,354 shares (4.97%)
registered in the name of Vidacos Nominees Limited.


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