Offer Update

Greencore Group PLC
16 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 it is today posting notices to those Hazlewood
Shareholders who have not yet accepted the Offer informing them that it
intends to apply the provisions of Sections 428-430F of the Companies Act to
acquire compulsorily all their outstanding Hazlewood Shares on the terms of
the Offer. The Offer will remain open for acceptance until further notice.

As at 3.00 p.m. on 16 January 2001, valid acceptances of the Offer had been
received in respect of 165,328,903 Hazlewood Shares, representing 72.4 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.

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.

Accordingly, as at 3.00 p.m. on 16 January 2001  , the Offeror owned or had
received valid acceptances in respect of  Hazlewood Shares, representing
approximately 90.7 per cent. of the issued ordinary share capital of
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.


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.