Additional Listing

Sainsbury(J) PLC
13 February 2003



13 February 2003



                       Sainsbury (J) plc ('the Company')

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Application has been made to the Financial Services Authority and the London
Stock Exchange plc for a total of 8,500,000 Ordinary shares of 25p each
('shares') to be admitted to the Official List.

It is expected that admission will be granted on 17 February 2003 and trading
will commence on 18 February 2003

These shares are being reserved under a block listing and will be issued
pursuant to the following scheme:

Scheme                                                    Shares

Save As You Earn Scheme                                   2,500,000

Colleague Share Option Scheme                             6,000,000

When issued these shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary shares.


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