Tender Offer

Tesco PLC 08 August 2006 TESCO PLC announces pricing and final results of Tender Offer in respect of its £350,000,000 5.125 per cent. Notes due 2009, its £250,000,000 6.00 per cent. Notes due 2008 and its £325,000,000 7.50 per cent. Notes due 2007 NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ANY PERSON RESIDENT AND/OR LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR ITALY (SEE OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS BELOW) London, UK, 8 August 2006, - TESCO PLC (the Company) today announced the pricing for its successful offer (the Offer) to repurchase for cash any and all of its outstanding £350,000,000 5.125 per cent. Notes due 2009 (the 2009 Notes), and certain amounts of its £250,000,000 6.00 per cent. Notes due 2008 (the 2008 Notes) and £325,000,000 7.50 per cent. Notes due 2007 (the 2007 Notes and, together with the 2009 Notes and the 2008 Notes, the Notes) that was launched on 27 July 2006. As a result of the Offer, made as part of its commitment to active management of its balance sheet and debt maturity profile, the Company has decreased its outstanding debt obligations by approximately £350,000,000. The final results of the Offer are as follows: Description of Aggregate Pro-ration Repurchase Benchmark Offer Side Repurchase Repurchase the Notes nominal factor Spread Security Benchmark Yield Price amounts Security Rate accepted for repurchase £350,000,000 £158,071,000 N/A 25 bps 4.00 per cent. UK 4.913% 5.163% 99.656% 5.125 per Treasury Gilt due cent. Notes 2009 due 2009 £250,000,000 £125,067,000 N/A 25 bps 5.00 per cent. UK 4.917% 5.167% 101.290% 6.00 per cent. Treasury Gilt due Notes due 2008 2008 £325,000,000 £66,901,000 38.2% 22 bps 4.50 per cent. UK 4.875% 5.095% 102.153% 7.50 per cent. Treasury Gilt due Notes due 2007 2007 Settlement will be on Friday 11 August 2006. BNP Paribas and Citigroup Global Markets Limited acted as Dealer Managers. Citibank N.A. acted as Tender Agent. Requests for information in relation to the Offer should be directed to: Dealer Managers BNP PARIBAS Citigroup Global Markets Limited 10 Harewood Avenue Citigroup Centre London NW1 6AA Canada Square Attention: Debt Restructuring Group Canary Wharf Email: debt.restructuring@bnpparibas.com London E14 5LB Tel: +44 (0) 20 7595 8668 Attention: Liability Management Group Email: liabilitymanagement.europe@citigroup.com Tel: +44 (0) 20 7986 8969 A copy of the Tender Offer Memorandum is available for inspection at the Document Viewing Facility of the Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, London E14 5HS. DISCLAIMER This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum. This announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum contain important information which should be read carefully. None of the Company, BNP Paribas, Citigroup Global Markets Limited or Citibank, N.A. made any recommendation whether Noteholders should tender Notes in the Offer. OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS The distribution of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum comes are required by the Company and the Dealer Managers to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions. Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum constitutes an offer to buy or a solicitation of an offer to sell the Notes, and tenders of Notes in the Offer have not been accepted from Noteholders in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws required the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and any of the Dealer Managers was such a licensed broker or dealer in such jurisdictions, the Offer shall be deemed to have been made on behalf of the Company by that Dealer Manager. United States The Offer was not made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by use of the mails of, or by any means or instrumentality (including, without limitation, facsimile transmission, telex, telephone, email and other forms of electronic transmission) of interstate or foreign commerce of, or any facility of a national securities exchange of, the United States, and the Notes have not been tendered in the Offer by any such use, means, instrumentality or facility from or within the United States or by persons located or resident in the United States. Accordingly, copies of this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer are not being, and must not be, directly or indirectly, mailed or otherwise transmitted, distributed or forwarded in or into the United States or to persons located or resident in the United States. Any purported tender of Notes in the Offer resulting directly or indirectly from a violation of these restrictions will be invalid and tenders of Notes made by a person located in the United States or any agent, fiduciary or other intermediary acting on a non-discretionary basis for a principal giving instructions from within the United States have not been accepted. For the purposes of this paragraph, United States means the United States of America, its territories and possessions, any state of the United States of America and the District of Columbia. Italy The Offer was not made in the Republic of Italy (Italy). The Offer, this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum have not been submitted to the clearance procedure of the Commissione Nazionale per le Societa e la Borsa (CONSOB) pursuant to Italian laws and regulations. Accordingly, Noteholders are notified that, to the extent Noteholders are resident and/or located in Italy, the Offer was not available to them and they could not tender Notes in the Offer and, as such, any Tender Instructions received from such persons are ineffective and void, and none of this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum or any other documents or materials relating to the Offer or the Notes may be distributed or made available in Italy. The Offer was not made and this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum are not being distributed to the public in the United Kingdom, France or Belgium. In such jurisdictions, only the following persons could participate in the Offer and receive this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum (as more fully set out in the Tender Offer Memorandum): United Kingdom (investment professionals and persons within Article 43(2) or otherwise of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 / France (certain qualified investors and providers of portfolio management investment services) / Belgium (institutional investors). This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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