Commitment Share Plan

Compass Group PLC
29 January 2002



Compass Group PLC - Commitment Share Plan

Compass Group PLC (the 'Company') announces that on 28 January 2002, Ogier 
Employee Benefit Trustee Limited, as Trustee of the Compass Group Employee Trust 
No 2 (the 'Trust'), subscribed for 903,100 ordinary shares in the Company (the 
'Shares').

The Shares were subscribed at 502.00p per Share, being the middle market 
quotation of a Share on 25 January 2002. Following this acquisition, the Trustee 
distributed all these shares to satisfy participants' entitlement under the 
Compass Group Commitment Share Plan.

Following the distribution of these shares, no shares are held by the Trustee. 


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