Purchase of shares

Associated British Foods PLC
17 July 2002



17 July 2002



                          Associated British Foods plc

                               Purchase of Shares


Martin Adamson, non-executive director, purchased 10,000 shares in Associated
British Foods plc at a price of 540.45 pence per share on Tuesday, 16 July 2002.



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