Additional Listing

Sainsbury(J) PLC
13 February 2007



                        J Sainsbury 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 23,000,000 Ordinary shares of 28 4/7p each
('shares') to be admitted to the Official List.



It is expected that permission will be granted on 14 February 2007 and admission
to trading will commence on 15 February 2007.



These shares are being reserved under block listings and will be issued as a
result of the exercise of share awards pursuant to the following schemes:




                                       Scheme                     Shares
Executive Share Option Plan                                     10,000,000
Save As You Earn Scheme                                          8,000,000
Colleague Share Option Plan                                      5,000,000



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


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