Director/PDMR Shareholding

Compass Group PLC
27 October 2006

                                  Compass Group PLC 
                                 Employee Benefit Trust

Ogier Employee Benefit Trustee Limited, as Trustee of the Compass Group Employee
Trust No 2 (the Trust) has today notified Compass Group PLC (the Company) that
on 27 October 2006 it sold a total of 124,821 ordinary 10p shares in the Company
(Shares) on behalf of participants in the Share Bonus Matching plan at a price
of 282.45p per Share. The transaction related to former employees of the
Company,

The Trust is a discretionary trust of which all employees and former employees
of the Company and its subsidiaries are potential beneficiaries. Executive
Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities are therefore
deemed to have an interest in the Shares held by the Trust.

Following the transaction, the Trust holds a total of 629,179 Shares,
representing 0.03% of the Company's issued share capital.


Enquiries:
Tim Mason, Company Secretary       [phone]





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