Offer Update

Greencore Group PLC
12 December 2000



   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, will be
extended and remain open until 3.00p.m. on Tuesday, 2
January 2001.

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 12 December 2000, the first closing
date of the Offer, valid acceptances of the Offer had
been received in respect of 140,523,342 Hazlewood Shares,
representing 61.6 per cent. of the issued ordinary share
capital of Hazlewood. Included in the total acceptances
referred to above are valid acceptances in respect of
65,005,182 Hazlewood Shares from the directors and
certain other shareholders who have given irrevocable
undertakings to accept the Offer.

Accordingly, as at 3.00 p.m. on 12 December 2000, the
Offeror owned or had received valid acceptances in
respect of 186,523,342 Hazlewood Shares, representing
approximately 81.7 per cent. of the issued ordinary share
capital of Hazlewood.

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.  The above figures do not yet include
5,910,300 Hazlewood Shares which are subject to an
irrevocable undertaking described in the Offer Document
but in respect of which a valid acceptance has not been
received by the Offeror prior to the first closing date.

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]
Trish Morrissey

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.