Director Shareholding

Tate & Lyle PLC
                  

15 June 2004 - Tate & Lyle PLC

Director Shareholding

The Trustees of the Tate & Lyle PLC Employee Benefit Trust (Number 1) (the
'EBT') notified the Company on 15 June 2004 that on 14 June 2004 it had bought
450,000 Tate & Lyle PLC ordinary shares at an average price of

321.19 pence per share.

By virtue of their interests in the Tate & Lyle 2000 Executive Share Option
Scheme and the Tate & Lyle 2003 Performance Share Plan, the Executive Directors
of Tate & Lyle PLC (Iain Ferguson, Stanley Musesengwa, Simon Gifford and 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 12,189,153 ordinary shares in Tate &
Lyle PLC.