Holding(s) in Company

Computacenter PLC
14 October 2002



                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

     COMPUTACENTER PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

     SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LTD 

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

     AS IN 2 ABOVE

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them. 

     SEE LETTER BELOW 

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired. 

     1,840,048 

6)   (0.996%) of issued Class 

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

     -

8)   ( - %) of issued Class 

9)   Class of security

     ORDINARY SHARES OF 5p EACH 

10)  Date of transaction

     11 OCTOBER 2002

11)  Date company informed

     11 OCTOBER 2002

12)  Total holding following this notification

     22,251,917 
                
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 

     12.047% 

14)  Any additional information 
      
     SEE LETTER BELOW 

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries 

     ALAN POTTINGER   
     01707-639050 

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for  
     making this notification 

     Date of Notification      14 OCTOBER 2002 


  
Letter to Computacenter Plc   
11 October 2002 


5p ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES') 

We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an  
interest in 21,101,917 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on a  
discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.
 
Included in this figure are:- 

(i)   7,674,336 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our  
      wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited  
      (Schroder Nominees),

(ii)  4,011,242 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by an 
      affiliated company, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and registered or
      to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited. 

(iii) 9,416,339 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of 
      Schroder Nominees Limited. The registration details are shown on schedule 
      A below.

Another wholly-owned subsidiary, SIM North America Limited (SIMNA Ltd), is  
managing on a discretionary basis (a) portfolio(s) holding a further 1,150,000  
shares. These shares are registered or to be registered in the name of Chase  
Nominees Limited. 

We believe that we, our subsidiary and affiliated company are therefore  
interested in an overall aggregate of 22,251,917 shares, representing some 
12.047% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 184,711,935. 

This notification is made to you:-

(a)  in respect of our interest as investment managers, 

(b)  on behalf of SIMNA Inc, SIMNA Ltd and SUTL in relation to the interests
     they are treated as having respectively under the Companies Act 1985 
     (the Act), and 

(c)  on behalf of Schroders plc., our holding company, which is treated as  
     having an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of 
     its ownership of SIMNA Inc, SUTL and ourselves.


Letter from Schroder Investment Management Limited
 



                                  SCHEDULE A  

                              COMPUTACENTER PLC 

                             5P ORDINARY SHARES 
            
            
REGISTRATION                                               AMOUNT 

Bank of New York                                          575,730
British Coal Staff Superannuation a/c: P                  800,000  
BT Globenet Nominees Ltd. a/c: 6B                         509,000     
Chase Manhattan Bank                                      236,400  
Chase Nominees Limited                                    913,520
Chase Nominees Limited a/c:03886                          433,000
HSBC Bank International a/c: 10096301                     100,000  
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd                      122,000
Mineworkers' Pension Scheme a/c: R                        400,000  
Morgan Nominees Ltd                                       446,500  
Morgan Nominees Ltd a/c: CCC                               87,000  
MSS Nominees Ltd a/c: 809797                              303,587  
MSS Nominees Ltd a/c: 809803                              111,106  
MSS Nominees Ltd a/c: 846435                              423,084   
Nortrust Nominees Ltd                                   2,569,577  
Nutraco Nominees Limited                                  225,000     
RBSTB Nominees Limited                                    313,160
State Street Nominees Ltd                                 300,675  
State Street Nominees Ltd a/c: 5H57                       547,000 
                                                        --------- 
                                                        9,416,339
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