Director Shareholding

Tesco PLC
17 March 2004



TESCO PLC

NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS


Tesco PLC announces that on Wednesday 17th March 2004, 190,341 Ordinary Shares
of 5P each in the Company were transferred by Tesco Quest Limited, as trustee of
the Tesco Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust, to satisfy options
exercised by employees under the Company's Savings-Related Share Option Scheme
(1981). As a result of the transfer, R S Ager, J Gardiner, J Gildersleeve, A
Higginson, Sir Terence Leahy, T J R Mason, D E Reid, P A Clarke, D T Potts who
are beneficiaries of the trust, ceased to have an interest in the 190,341
Ordinary Shares of 5P each in the company.




Enquiries:          Martin Field

                    Deputy Secretary

                    Tesco PLC

                    Tel:- [phone]


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