Offer Update

Greencore Group PLC
23 February 2001

 Not for release, publication or distribution in or into the United States,
                         Canada, Australia or Japan
                                      
                      Greencore Group plc ('Greencore')
                                      
     Cash offer for the preference share capital of Hazlewood Foods plc
                                ('Hazlewood')
                                      
Greencore announces that the Preference Share Offer for the Hazlewood
Preference Shares, as set out in the Offer Document dated 2 February 2001,
will be extended and remain open until 3.00p.m. on 8 March 2001.

As at 3.00 p.m. on 22 February 2001, the first closing date of the Preference
Share Offer, valid acceptances of the Preference Share Offer had been
received in respect of 49,387 Hazlewood Preference Shares, representing 82.3
per cent. of the issued preference share capital of Hazlewood.
                                      
Terms used in this announcement have the same meaning as in the document
containing the Preference Share Offer dated 2 February 2001.

Prior to the commencement of the Preference Share Offer Period the Offeror
owned no Hazlewood Preference Shares and, save as disclosed above, has not
since acquired any interest in any Hazlewood Preference Shares.
                                      
23 February 2001

Enquiries:

Greencore                               [phone]
Ben Power

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 Preference
Share Offer , and will not be responsible to  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 Preference Share Offer.