Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tesco PLC
23 November 2005


TESCO EMPLOYEE SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN ('Plan') ANNOUNCEMENTS

22 November 2005

DIRECTORS SHAREHOLDING

1. Tesco PLC has today been notified that on Friday 18th November 2005, the
Trustees of the Plan purchased Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each in the Company at
a price of 309p on behalf of the Directors below:

R W Brasher 35
P A Clarke  35
A Higginson 35
T P Leahy   35
T J R Mason 35
D T Potts   35

2. The Trustees transferred 139,233 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 11,224,598 shares held by Lloyds
TSB Registrars Corporate Nominee Ltd AESOP2 (unallocated shares).


J Lloyd
Deputy Secretary
Tesco PLC
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