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Greencore Group PLC 12 July 2006 ) NOTICE OF NOTIFIABLE INTEREST IN RELEVANT SHARE CAPITAL OF GREENCORE GROUP PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY IN FULFILMENT OF THE OBLIGATIONS ARISING UNDER SECTIONS 67 et seq OF THE COMPANIES ACT 1990 ('the 1990 Act') And SECTION 91 OF THE 1990 ACT(1) 1 To: Greencore Group Public Limited Company, And the Irish Stock Exchange, Anglesea Street, Dublin 2 2 Date of 5 July 2006 acquisition: 3 From: Bloomburg Limited and Cradder Both of: Chapel House, 21-26 Parnell Street, Dublin 2. and Liam Carroll and Roisin Carroll Both of: 10 Sycamore Road Mount Merrion Co. Dublin 4. Total Bloomburg Limited and Cradder - interest in 26,821,490 ordinary shares of €0.63 each in Greencore interest held Group plc, representing 13.62% of the issued share capital of Greencore Group plc which was such by the as for the purposes of Section 67 of the 1990 Act to increase the interest in Greencore Group plc persons through a percentage point above 5% and for the purposes of Section 91 of the 1990 Act being mentioned in such as to increase the interest in Greencore Group plc shares from below 10% to above 10%. Row 5 after the Please note: this notification is being made in conjunction with the (attached) notification of acquisitions an acquisition of an interest in 15,652,761 ordinary shares of €0.63 each in the capital of giving rise Greencore Group plc representing 7.95% of the issued share capital of Greencore Group plc by to the Gainsco Limited and Danninger, being companies in respect of which Liam Carroll and Roisin notifications Carroll respectively have an interest in shares in Greencore Group plc beneficially owned by contained and Gainsco Limited pursuant to Sections 72(2)(a) and 72(1) of the 1990 Act. /or referred to in this Liam Carroll and Roisin Carroll - Following the notification of the interests as set out in this notice form and such (attached) notification, Liam Carroll and Roisin Carroll are interested in a total of 42,474,251 ordinary shares of €0.63 each in the capital of Greencore Group plc representing 21.57% of the issued share capital of Greencore Group plc, such interests arising respectively pursuant to the said Sections 72(2)(a) and 72(1) of the 1990 Act and which was such as for the purposes of Section 67 of the 1990 Act to increase the interest in Greencore Group plc through a percentage point above 5% and for the purposes of Section 91 of the 1990 Act being such as to increase the interest in Greencore Group plc shares from below 10% to above 10%. 5 Persons Bloomburg Limited, Cradder, Roisin Carroll and Liam Carroll making the notification: 6 Notifiable Prior to the acquisitions the subject of this notice, none of the parties specified in row 5 had interest in any notifiable interest in Greencore Group plc Ordinary Shares of .63 cent each in Greencore Group plc subsisting immediately before the acquisitions of interest the subject of this notice 7 Notifiable Bloomburg Limited - beneficial ownership through Aurum Nominees Limited as legal and registered interests owner in trust as bare trustee for Bloomburg Limited disclosed Cradder - an interest arising pursuant to Section 72(2) (b) of the 1990 Act (being a person entitled to exercise or control the exercise of one-third or more of the voting power at general meetings of Bloomburg Limited) Liam Carroll - an interest arising pursuant to Section 72(2) (a) of the 1990 Act (being a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions Gainsco Limited, Danninger, Bloomburg Limited and Cradder are accustomed to act) Roisin Carroll - an interest arising pursuant to Section 72(1) of the 1990 Act (being the spouse of Liam Carroll) 8 The number of Nil shares in which the interest of the person giving the notification is such an interest as is mentioned in section 77 (6) of the Companies Act 1990. 9 Total Nil interest held by the other persons referred to in Row 11 after the acquisitions giving rise to the notifications contained in this notice 10 Other N/A persons, referred to above, to the extent that they are or may be parties to an agreement to which Section 73 of the 1990 Act applies. Signed: John Pope Date: 11 July 2006 Duly authorised agent for Bloomburg Limited, Cradder, Roisin Carroll and Liam Carroll. This announcement has been issued through the Companies Announcement Service of The Irish Stock Exchange. -------------------------- (1) Please note that the disclosure made by this form shall be deemed to be made for the purposes specified in the heading to this form and for the purposes of all applicable regulatory, legal and other provisions, if any, which may require such disclosure. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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