Director Shareholding

Tesco PLC
18 January 2005



TESCO EMPLOYEE SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN ('Plan') ANOUNCEMENTS

18 January 2005

DIRECTORS SHAREHOLDING

1. Tesco PLC has today been notified that on Friday 14th January 2005, the
Trustees of the Plan purchased Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each in the Company at
a price of 318p on behalf of the Directors below:


R W Brasher                         34
P A Clarke                          34
A Higginson                         34
T P Leahy                           34
T J R Mason                         34
D T Potts                           34


2. The Trustees transferred 158,833 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 2,234,995 shares held by Lloyds
TSB Registrars Corporate Nominee Ltd AESOP2 (unallocated shares).


M J Field
Deputy Secretary
Tesco PLC
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