Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tesco PLC
31 August 2005


          TESCO EMPLOYEE SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN ('Plan') ANNOUNCEMENTS

                              DIRECTORS SHAREHOLDING

1. Tesco PLC has today been notified that on Friday 26th August 2005, the
Trustees of the Plan purchased Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each in the Company at
a price of 330.25p on behalf of the Directors below:

R W Brasher   33
P A Clarke    33
A Higginson   33
T P Leahy     33
T J R Mason   33
D T Potts     33

2. The Trustees transferred 201,045 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 746,243 shares held by Lloyds
TSB Registrars Corporate Nominee Ltd AESOP2 (unallocated shares).

J Lloyd
Deputy Secretary
Tesco PLC
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