Director Shareholding

Tesco PLC
27 January 2005


Tesco PLC

Tesco PLC announces that on 26th January 2005, the Trustees of the Tesco
Employee Share Incentive Plan purchased 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 5 pence
each in the Company at an average price of 305.982 pence per share.

The directors listed below together with 150,000 other employees are potential
participants in the Plan and are to be treated as interested in shares held by
the Trust.

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


Enquiries:

Lucy Neville-Rolfe
Company Secretary
Tesco PLC
Tel:-[phone]


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