Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tesco PLC
19 December 2005


TESCO EMPLOYEE SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN ('Plan') ANNOUNCEMENTS

DIRECTORS SHAREHOLDING

1. Tesco PLC has today been notified that on Friday 16th December 2005, the
Trustees of the Plan purchased Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each in the Company at
a price of 326.5p on behalf of the Directors below:

R W Brasher   34
P A Clarke    34
A Higginson   34
T P Leahy     34
T J R Mason   34
D T Potts     34

2. The Trustees transferred 111,926 Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each from Lloyds
TSB Registrars Corporate Nominee Limited AESOP1 (allocated shares) to Lloyds TSB
Registrars Corporate Nominee Limited AESOP 2 (unallocated shares). The transfer
was made following the forfeiture of shares, under the rules of the Plan, by
participants who have left the group since the last purchase. The Directors
above, together with 150,000 other employees, are potential participants in the
Plan and are to be treated as interested in the 11,336,524 shares held by Lloyds
TSB Registrars Corporate Nominee Ltd AESOP2 (unallocated shares).


J Lloyd
Deputy Secretary
Tesco PLC
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