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Portrait Solicitors26 March 2007 FORM 8.3 DEALINGS BY PERSONS WITH INTERESTS IN SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR MORE (Rule 8.3 of the Takeover Code) 1. KEY INFORMATION Name of person dealing (Note 1) Miss Judith Portrait and Mr Stewart Grimshaw, as executors of the Hon Simon Sainsbury deceased Company dealt in J. Sainsbury Plc Class of relevant security to which Ordinary Shares GBP 0.28571428the dealings being disclosed relate(Note 2) Date of dealing 23 March 2007 2. INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE (a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of relevant security dealt in (Note 3) Long Short Number (%) Number (%) (1) Relevant securities 103,657,495 5.98% *(2) Derivatives (other than options)(3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell Total 103,657,495 5.98% (b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company, other than the class dealt in (Note 3) Class of relevant security: Long Short Number (%) Number (%)(1) Relevant securities(2) Derivatives (other than options)(3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell Total (c) Rights to subscribe (Note 3) Class of relevant security: Details 3. DEALINGS (Note 4) (a) Purchases and sales Purchase/ Number of Price per unit (Note 5)sale securitiesSale 1,500,000 Average price per share of GBP544.30, with trades in a range of GBP542.75 to GBP548.00 (b) Derivatives transactions (other than options) Product name, e.g. Long/short (Note Number of securities Price per unitCFD 6) (Note 7) (Note 5) (c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities (i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying Product Writing, Number of Exercise Type, e.g. Expiry Optionname,e.g. selling, securities to price American, date moneypaid/call purchasing, which the option European received peroption varying etc. relates (Note 7) etc. unit (Note 5) (ii) Exercising Product name, e.g. call Number of Exercise price per unit (Noteoption securities 5) (d) Other dealings (including new securities) (Note 4) Nature of transaction (Note 8) Details Price per unit (if applicable) (Note 5) 4. OTHER INFORMATION * The resultant interest of 5.98% disclosed at paragraph 2(a) above isconstituted as follows: Miss Judith Portrait and Mr Stewart Grimshaw, asexecutors of the Hon Simon Sainsbury deceased, are interested in 29,400,000shares (1.70%); Judith Portrait is also interested in 43,640,623 shares (2.52%)in her capacity as trustee of various charitable trusts, 30,560,826 shares(1.76%) in her capacity as trustee of various Sainsbury family trusts, 55,104(0.00%) in her capacity as trustee of various other family trusts and 942 shares(0.00%) held in an ISA in a personal capacity. Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the persondisclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any relevantsecurities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the votingrights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which anyderivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should bestated. Is a Supplemental Form 8 attached? (Note 9) NO Date of disclosure 26 March 2007 Contact name Miss Judith Portrait Telephone number 020 7320 3890 If a connected EFM, name of offeree/offeror with whichconnected If a connected EFM, state nature of connection (Note 10) Notes The Notes on Form 8.3 can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website atwww.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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