Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Tesco PLC
17 April 2000

Tesco PLC ('the Company')


The Company was notified today that the Tesco International
Employee Benefit Trust purchased from the Tesco Group
Employee Share Ownership Plan Ordinary Shares of 5p each in
the Company as shown below:-

Date                No of Shares        Price (pence)

17 April 2000       609,146             173.75p

Both the Tesco Group Employee Share Ownership Plan and the
Tesco International Employee Benefit Trust are discretionary
trusts for the benefit of employees and executive directors
of the Company. Each executive director of the Company, as a
potential beneficiary of the trusts, is deemed to have an
interest in the shares acquired by the Tesco International
Employee Benefit Trust and to have ceased to have an
interest in the shares sold by the Tesco Group Employee
Share Ownership Plan. The directors in question are:-

R S Ager, P A Clarke, J Gildersleeve, A Higginson, T P
Leahy, T J R Mason, D T Potts, D E Reid & J M Wemms.


Enquiries:     J A Bailey Esq
               Deputy Secretary
               Tesco PLC
               Tel: [phone]