Further re ESS

Compass Group PLC
21 October 2005





                       Compass Group PLC ('the Company')
                                  Announcement

Further to the Company's announcement of 10 October 2005, it has instructed
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to conduct an investigation into the
relationships between Eurest Support Services (ESS), IHC and the United
Nations.  Pending progress in that investigation, the Company has decided
that Peter Harris, the CEO of the Group's UK & Ireland, Middle East and Africa
division, should be suspended. His responsibilities will be taken over by Gary
Green, CEO of the Americas Division, on an interim basis.




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