Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tesco PLC
08 May 2008




8 May 2008

Tesco PLC


Tesco PLC was notified today that the Trustees of the Tesco Employee Share
Incentive Plan purchased 6,000,000 Ordinary shares of 5p each in the Company at
an average price of 426.91p

The Trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and executive
directors of the Company. Each executive director of the Company, as a potential
beneficiary of the Trust, is deemed to have an interest in the shares acquired
by the Trust. The directors in questions are: P A Clarke, A T Higginson, T P
Leahy, T J R Mason, D T Potts, R W P Brasher, L Neville-Rolfe.

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of DTR 3.1.4.




Enquiries: J Lloyd
           Company Secretary
           Tesco PLC
           Delamare Road
           Cheshunt
           Hertfordshire
           EN8 9SL
           Tel: [phone]





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