Re Share Subscription

Compass Group PLC
4 February 2004


Letter to RNS

Compass Group PLC (the Company) announces that on 4 February 2004, Ogier
Employee Benefit Trustee Limited, as Trustee of the Compass Group Employee Trust
No 2 (the Trust), acquired 107,530 ordinary shares in the Company (Shares).


The Shares were acquired on the market at 371p per Share on 4 February 2004.
Following this acquisition, the Trustee distributed all the shares to satisfy
participants' entitlements in connection with their annual bonus arrangements
for the year ended September 2003. None of the participants was a director of
the Company.


On 4 February 2004 the Trustee also subscribed for 107 Shares. The Shares were
subscribed at 370.75p per Share, being the middle market quotation of a Share on
2 February 2004. Following this acquisition, the Trustee distributed all these
shares to satisfy a participant's entitlement under arrangements for employees
at the time of the Granada Compass merger, whereby employees who exercised non-
maturing sharesave options at that time would receive an additional allocation
of shares.


Following the distribution of these shares, no shares are held by the Trust. 
 

Letter from Compass Group Plc



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