Directorate

ASSOCIATED BRITISH FOODS PLC
11 October 1999


The Board of Associated British Foods is pleased to announce that Martin
Gardiner Adamson has today agreed to join the Board as a non-executive
director of the Company.

Mr Adamson, aged 60, was a Partner in KPMG until September 1996.

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