RNS Number:6880O
Signet Group PLC
14 August 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

0.84%

9) Class of security

0.5p ORDINARY SHARES

10) Date of transaction

SEE BELOW

11) Date company informed

13 August 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 ..14 August 2003.....


LETTER FROM AMVESCAP PLC

13 August 2003

SECTION 198 COMPANIES ACT 1985 ("THE ACT")

We write to give you notice that, following the sale of 14,500,000 shares on 12
August 2003, AMVESCAP PLC (AMVESCAP) and subsidiary companies on behalf of
discretionary clients no longer have a notifiable interest in the Ordinary 0.5p
Shares of your Company.

We would further advise that INVESCO Perpetual High Income Fund no longer has a
notifiable holding.




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