Holding(s) in Company

Compass Group PLC
24 May 2002


Compass Group PLC (the Company) announces that on 23 May 2002, Ogier Employee
Benefit Trustee Limited, as Trustee of the Compass Group Employee Trust No 2
(the Trust), subscribed for 59,747 ordinary shares in the Company (Shares).

The Shares were subscribed at 422p per Share, being the middle market quotation
of a Share on 22 March 2002. Following this acquisition, the Trustee distributed
57,242 shares to satisfy participants' entitlements under the Compass Group
Commitment Share Plan (the Commitment Plan) and 2,505 shares to satisfy
entitlements under an offer made by the Company to employees at the time of the
Granada Compass Merger, whereby employees who exercised non-maturing sharesave
options at that time would receive an additional allocation of shares after 27
January 2002.

Following the distribution of these shares, no shares are held by the Trustee. 


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