Director/PDMR Shareholding

Compass Group PLC
23 February 2007



Director/PDMR Shareholdings

Compass Group PLC (the 'Company') announces that the following Directors of the
Company have purchased Ordinary Shares of ten pence each in the Company as
shown:

Name                               Position                     Number of Shares

Sir Roy Gardner                    Chairman                               50,000

Richard Cousins                    Chief Executive Officer                50,000

Andrew Martin                      Group Finance Director                 25,000

Sir James Crosby                   Senior Non-executive Director          34,000

Timothy Parker                     Non-executive Director                 20,000

Sir Ian Robinson                   Non-executive Director                  5,000

All the shares above were purchased on 22 February 2007 in the market at
306.8007 pence per share.

The Directors' resulting shareholdings in the Company are as follows:

                                                            Percentage of Issued
Name                             Number of Shares                  Share Capital

Sir Roy Gardner                           150,000                        0.0074%

Richard Cousins                           150,000                        0.0074%

Andrew Martin                             135,027                        0.0066%

Sir James Crosby                           34,000                        0.0016%

Timothy Parker                             20,000                        0.0009%

Sir Ian Robinson                            6,289                        0.0003%


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