Tate & Lyle PLC - Director Shareholding

Tate & Lyle PLC - Director Shareholding 

    LONDON-(BUSINESS WIRE)-June 12, 2002-

The Trustees of the Tate & Lyle PLC Employee Benefit Trust (Number 1)
(the 'EBT') notified the Company on 11 June 2002 that on 11 June 2002
it had bought 1,150,000 Tate & Lyle PLC ordinary shares at an average
price of 374.78 pence per share.

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

Following this transaction, the EBT owns 6,169,339 ordinary shares in
Tate & Lyle PLC.

   Short Name: Tate & Lyle PLC
   Category Code: RDS
   Sequence Number: 00000272
   Time of Receipt (offset from UTC): 20020611T183244+0100