Re Share Subscription

Compass Group PLC
22 August 2002


Compass Group PLC (the Company) announces that on 22 August 2002, Ogier Employee
Benefit Trustee Limited, as Trustee of the Compass Group Employee Trust No 2
(the Trust), subscribed for 15,906 ordinary shares in the Company (Shares). 

The Shares were subscribed at 328.25p per Share, being the middle market
quotation of a Share on 21 August 2002. Following this acquisition, the Trustee
distributed 13,184 shares to satisfy participants' entitlements under the
Compass Group Commitment Share Plan (the Commitment Plan) and 2,722 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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