Recommended Cash Offer

Greencore Group PLC
10 November 2000


                      Greencore Group plc ('Greencore')
                                      
        Recommended cash offer for Hazlewood Foods plc ('Hazlewood')


The  Board  of  Greencore  announces  that  it  has  received  an  additional
irrevocable  undertaking to accept the Offer from a Hazlewood Shareholder  in
respect  of  5,910,300 Hazlewood Shares, representing approximately  2.6  per
cent.  of  the issued ordinary share capital of Hazlewood.  This  undertaking
ceases  to  be binding in the event of a third party offer of more  than  125
pence per Hazlewood Share.

In  total, Greencore has now received irrevocable undertakings to accept  the
Offer  in  respect of 71,459,482 Hazlewood Shares, representing approximately
31.3 per cent. of the issued ordinary share capital of Hazlewood.

In addition Greencore has today purchased, in aggregate, 38,000,000 Hazlewood
Shares,  representing  approximately 16.6 per cent. of  the  issued  ordinary
share capital of Hazlewood.

Terms  used in this announcement have the same meaning as in the announcement
of  the  recommended cash offer for Hazlewood released by  Greencore  earlier
today.


Enquiries:

Greencore                                                  00 353 1 605 1000

David Dilger
Kevin O'Sullivan

Schroder Salomon Smith Barney (financial adviser to Greencore) 020 7986 4000

Peter Smart
David James (Corporate Broking)

Financial Dynamics (PR advisers to Greencore)                  020 7930 0777

Charles Watson


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,  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.