Re Share Subscription

Compass Group PLC
4 December 2002



Compass Group PLC (the Company) announces that on 4 December 2002, Ogier 
Employee Benefit Trustee Limited, as Trustee of the Compass Group Employee Trust
No 2 (the Trust), subscribed for 119,478 ordinary shares in the Company
(Shares).

The Shares were subscribed at 313.75p per Share, being the middle market
quotation of a Share on 3 December 2002. Following this acquisition, the Trustee
distributed 118,661 shares to satisfy participants' entitlements under the
Compass Group Commitment Share Plan (the Commitment Plan) and 817 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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