Director Shareholding

Tesco PLC
24 January 2005



Tesco PLC



Tesco PLC announces that on 21st January 2005, the Trustees of the Tesco
Employee Share Incentive Plan purchased 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 5 pence
each in the Company at an average price of 312.63 pence per share.



The directors listed below together with 150,000 other employees are potential
participants in the Plan and are to be treated as interested in shares held by
the Trust.


R W Brasher                    A Higginson                    T J R Mason
P A Clarke                     T P Leahy                      D T Potts



Enquiries:

Lucy Neville-Rolfe

Company Secretary

Tesco PLC

Tel:-[phone]








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