Share Incentive Plan

Associated British Foods PLC
20 November 2006


20th November 2006


Associated British Foods Executive Share Incentive Plan 2003


Associated British Foods plc (the 'Company') announces that it received
notification on 17th November 2006 and 20th November 2006 for the purposes of
Section 329 of the Companies Act 1985 from the Royal Bank of Canada (Jersey)
Limited (the 'Trustee'), as trustee of the Associated British Foods Executive
Share Incentive Plan 2003 (the 'Plan'), that the Trustee acquired 600,000 of the
Company's ordinary shares of  5 15/22 pence ('Ordinary Shares').  The Ordinary
Shares were acquired by the Trustee as follows:-



Date of Acquisition     Shares acquired        Average price per ordinary share

16 November 2006             300,000                       891.94p

17 November 2006             300,000                       895.45p


The Plan takes the form of conditional allocations by the Trustee of Ordinary
Shares to senior managers, including directors of the Company, which will be
released if, and to the extent that, certain performance targets are satisfied
over a three year performance period.


The allocation to directors of the Company will be determined in accordance with
the terms of the Plan in due course and a further announcement of that
allocation will then be made.


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