Directorate Change

Centrica PLC
24 October 2002

24th October 2002

Centrica plc is pleased to announce that Mr Robert G Tobin has been appointed a
Non-Executive Director of the Company, effective 1st January 2003.

This appointment will bring Mr Tobin's considerable experience and knowledge of
the North American retail market to the Centrica board at a time when the Group
is growing its business in the United States and Canada.

A US citizen, Mr Tobin currently serves on the Supervisory Board of Royal Ahold
NV, the Dutch international food retail and food service group, which operates
in 25 countries. Until September 2001 Mr Tobin was the Chairman of Ahold USA, a
subsidiary of Royal Ahold NV, and from 1998 to 2001 was President and Chief
Executive Officer of Ahold USA. Since 2000 Mr Tobin has been Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Worldwide Retail Exchange whose members include Tesco,
Marks and Spencer and Kingfisher.

The Centrica Chairman, Sir Michael Perry GBE, said: 'Robert has extensive
experience of international retail markets, in particular in the United States,
which will be invaluable to us as we develop and grow our business in North
America. His appointment will further strengthen and complement the composition
of the Board.'

In 2001, Mr Tobin became an Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau, the highest
Dutch Civilian Order of Merit.

In 1996 he endowed the Robert G Tobin Professor of Food Marketing Chair at
Cornell University, from where he graduated in Agricultural Economics in 1960.



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