Offer Update

Greencore Group PLC
2 January 2001

                                                              2 January 2001
                                      
                                      
           Not for release, publication or distribution in or into
                         Canada, Australia or Japan
                                      
                                      
   Greencore Group plc ('Greencore') recommended cash offer ('the Offer')
                    for Hazlewood Foods plc ('Hazlewood')


Greencore  announces that the Offer for Hazlewood, as set out  in  the  Offer
Document  dated  21  November  2000, has been declared  unconditional  as  to
acceptances.  The Offer will remain open for acceptance until further notice.

Prior  to  the  commencement of the offer period, neither Greencore  nor  the
Offeror owned any Hazlewood Shares.  Since the announcement of the Offer, the
Offeror  has acquired 46,000,000 Hazlewood Shares, representing approximately
20.1 per cent. of the issued ordinary share capital of Hazlewood.

As  at  3.00 p.m. on 2 January 2001, valid acceptances of the Offer had  been
received  in respect of 159,268,782 Hazlewood Shares, representing  69.8  per
cent.  of  the issued ordinary share capital of Hazlewood.  Included  in  the
total  acceptances  referred to above are valid  acceptances  in  respect  of
70,915,482 Hazlewood Shares from the directors and certain other shareholders
who had given irrevocable undertakings to accept the Offer.

Accordingly,  as  at 3.00 p.m. on 2 January 2001, the Offeror   had  received
valid  acceptances in respect of  Hazlewood Shares representing approximately
87.4 per cent. of the  Hazlewood Shares to which the Offer relates.

Save  as  disclosed  above, neither Greencore nor any persons  deemed  to  be
acting  in concert with Greencore (excluding exempt market makers and  exempt
fund  managers)  owns  or  is  interested in,  directly  or  indirectly,  any
Hazlewood Shares.

Terms  used  in  this  announcement have the same meaning  as  in  the  Offer
Document dated 21 November 2000.

2 January 2001

Enquiries:

Greencore                               [phone]
David Dilger
Kevin O'Sullivan
Ben Power

Schroder Salomon Smith Barney          [phone]
Peter Smart
Mark Todd

Financial Dynamics                     [phone]
Tom Baldock

Drury Communications                    [phone]
Billy Murphy

Salomon  Brothers  International Limited, trading as Schroder  Salomon  Smith
Barney  ('Schroder Salomon Smith Barney'), which is regulated in  the  United
Kingdom  by  The  Securities and Futures Authority  Limited,  is  acting  for
Greencore  and the Offeror and no one else in connection with the  Offer  for
Hazlewood,  and will not be responsible for anyone other than  Greencore  and
the  Offeror for providing the protections afforded to customers of  Schroder
Salomon  Smith Barney or for providing advice to any other person in relation
to the Offer.


Salomon  Brothers  International Limited (trading as Schroder  Salomon  Smith
Barney)  is  regulated  in the United Kingdom by the Securities  and  Futures
Authority  Limited.  Salomon Smith Barney is a service mark of Salomon  Smith
Barney  Inc.  Schroders is a trademark of Schroders Holdings PLC and is  used
under licence.