Director Shareholding

Tesco PLC
27 August 2002

Tesco PLC ('the Company')

DIRECTORS SHAREHOLDING

Tesco PLC has today been notified that, on 23rd August 2002, the Trustees of the
Tesco Employee Share Ownership Plan purchased Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each in
the Company at a price of 221.5p per share on behalf of the Directors below :

Director                                        Number of
                                                 Shares
R S Ager                                           49
P A Clarke                                         49
J Gildersleeve                                     49
A Higginson                                        49
T P Leahy                                          49
T J R Mason                                        98           (includes 49 shares in the name of Mrs Fiona Mason)
D T Potts                                          49
D E Reid                                           49






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Tesco PLC

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