Additional Listing

Sainsbury(J) PLC
10 November 2005


                        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 5,000,000 Ordinary shares of 28 4/7p each
('shares') to be admitted to the Official List.

It is expected that permission will be granted on 14 November 2005 and admission
to trading will commence on on 15 November 2005.

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


            Scheme                              Shares
Executive Share Option Plan                    5,000,000

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


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