Holding(s) in Company

Compass Group PLC
18 February 2004

Compass Group PLC (the Company) announces that on 18 February 2004, Ogier
Employee Benefit Trustee Limited, as Trustee of the Compass Group Employee Trust
No 2 (the Trust), acquired 81,309 ordinary shares in the Company (Shares).

The Shares were acquired on the market at 364.6p per Share on 18 February 2004. 
Following this acquisition, the Trustee distributed all the shares to satisfy
participants' entitlements in connection with their annual bonus arrangements
for the year ended September 2003.  None of the participants was a director of
the Company.

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


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