Somerfield plc announces that on 11 September 2003, 7,292 Ordinary Shares of
10p each in the Company were transferred by Somerfield QUEST Limited, as
trustee of the Somerfield plc Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust, to
satisfy options exercised by employees under the Company Approved
Savings-Related Share Option Scheme (1996). As a result of this transfer J von
Spreckelsen, S Back, M Oakes, R Whitbread, B Williams and G Wotherspoon who are
potential beneficiaries of the trust, ceased to have an interest in those 7,292
Ordinary Shares of 10p each in the Company.



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