George Weston Foods

Associated British Foods PLC
06 September 2002





6 September 2002


                       ASSOCIATED BRITISH FOODS plc

Associated British Foods ('ABF'), the international food, ingredients and retail
group, announces today (6th September 2002) that the minority shareholders of
its Australian subsidiary, George Weston Foods Limited ('George Weston'), have
voted in favour of a proposal for a selective capital reduction and the payment
of a special dividend. As a result all shares not already owned by ABF will be
cancelled in return for a payment totalling Aus$6.60 per George Weston share.



It is expected that George Weston will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABF
on 20 September 2002 and the shares of George Weston will be delisted from the
Australian Stock Exchange on 27 September 2002.





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