Director Shareholding

Director Shareholding 

    LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2003--

Director Shareholding

The Trustees of the Tate & Lyle PLC Employee Benefit Trust (Number 1)
(the 'EBT') notified the Company on 16 June 2003 that on 16 June 2003
it had bought 765,000 Tate & Lyle PLC ordinary shares at an average
price of 334.61 pence per share.

By virtue of their interests in the Tate & Lyle 2000 Executive Share
Option Scheme, the Executive Directors of Tate & Lyle PLC (Iain
Ferguson, Stanley Musesengwa, Simon Gifford, Stuart Strathdee) are
potential beneficiaries of the EBT and are thus deemed to have become
interested in the above shares.

Following this transaction, the EBT owns 10,868,569 ordinary shares in
Tate & Lyle PLC.

   Short Name: Tate & Lyle PLC
   Category Code: RDS
   Sequence Number: 00006009
   Time of Receipt (offset from UTC): 20030617T112949+0100