Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tesco PLC
24 October 2005


TESCO EMPLOYEE SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN ('Plan') ANNOUNCEMENTS

DIRECTORS SHAREHOLDING

1. Tesco PLC has today been notified that on Friday 21st October 2005, the
Trustees of the Plan purchased Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each in the Company at
a price of 298.50p on behalf of the Directors below:

R W Brasher  37
P A Clarke   37
A Higginson  37
T P Leahy    37
T J R Mason  37
D T Potts    37

2. The Trustees transferred 155,599 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 11,085,365 shares held by Lloyds
TSB Registrars Corporate Nominee Ltd AESOP2 (unallocated shares).


J Lloyd
Deputy Secretary
Tesco PLC
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