Additional Listing

Sainsbury(J) PLC
03 March 2008









                        J Sainsbury plc ('the Company')

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Application has been made to the Financial Services Authority and the London
Stock Exchange plc for a total of 8,000,000 Ordinary shares of 28 4/7p each
('shares') to be admitted to the Official List.



It is expected that permission will be granted on 5 March 2008 and admission to
trading will commence on 6 March 2008.



These shares are being reserved under block listings and will be issued as a
result of the exercise of share awards pursuant to the following schemes:



                Scheme                                        Shares
Executive Share Option Plan                                   2,000,000
Save As You Earn Scheme                                       4,000,000
Colleague Share Option Plan                                   2,000,000



When issued these shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary shares.


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