Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tesco PLC
05 July 2005


TESCO EMPLOYEE SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN ('Plan') ANNOUNCEMENT

DIRECTORS SHAREHOLDING

1. Tesco PLC has today been notified that on Friday 1st July 2005, the Trustees
of the Plan purchased Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each in the Company at a price
of 321.25p on behalf of the Directors below:

R W Brasher   113
P A Clarke    113
A Higginson   113
T P Leahy     113
T J R Mason   113
D T Potts     113

2. The Trustees transferred 135,429 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 348,233 shares held by Lloyds
TSB Registrars Corporate Nominee Ltd AESOP2 (unallocated shares).

M J Field
Deputy Secretary
Tesco PLC
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