Director Shareholding

Tate & Lyle PLC
                  

                            Tate & Lyle PLC

                         Director Shareholding

The Trustees of the Tate & Lyle PLC Employee Benefit Trust (Number 1) (the
'EBT') notified the Company on 16 June 2004 that on 16 June 2004 it had bought
375,000 Tate & Lyle PLC ordinary shares at an average price of 327.13 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 12,939,153 ordinary shares in Tate &
Lyle PLC.