Holding(s) in Company

Halfords Group PLC
10 June 2004

Halfords Group Plc ('the Company')

The Company received notification on 9 June 2004 from CVC European Equity
Partners III L.P. relating to the issued shares of 1p each in the capital of the
Company (the 'Shares'), given in fulfilment of the obligations imposed by
sections 198 to 202 of the Companies Act 1985 (the 'Act'), and as a result of
CVC European Equity Partners III L.P. entering into a stock lending transaction
in respect of a certain number of Shares.

 1. Immediately after the time when the obligation to make this notification
    arose, CVC European Equity Partners III L.P. were interested in 43,807,182
    Shares (representing 19.2% of the issued share capital of the Company).

 2. To the extent known to CVC European Equity Partners III L.P. at the date of
    the notification, the identity of the registered holders of the Shares to
    which the notification relates and the number of Shares held by each of them
    are set out in the Appendix.

 3. The number of the Shares to which the notification relates in which the
    interest is such an interest as is mentioned in Section 208(5) of the Act is
    6,422,297.


APPENDIX

Registered holder: CVC European Equity Partners III L.P.

Number of Shares held: 37,384,885 (representing 16.4% of the issued share
capital of the Company)

The identity of the registered holder of 6,422,297 of the Shares to which the
notification relates was not known to CVC European Equity Partners III L.P. at
the date of the notification.


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