Share Option Scheme

Compass Group PLC
14 February 2002



Compass Group PLC - Savings-Related Share Option Scheme

Compass Group PLC (the 'Company') announces that on 14 February 2002, Ogier 
Employee Benefit Trustee Limited, as Trustee of the Compass Group Employee Trust 
No 2 (the 'Trust'), subscribed for 344,266 ordinary shares in the Company 
(the 'Shares').

The Shares were subscribed at 485.50p per Share, being the middle market 
quotation of a Share on 12 February 2002. Following this acquisition, the 
Trustee distributed all these shares to satisfy participants' entitlement 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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