Holding in Company

Kingspan Group PLC
18 December 2000

Kingspan Group plc ('Kingspan') was informed on 18 December 2000 that in
accordance with the Companies Act 1990, Fidelity Investments had a total
notifiable interest in 13,474,037 shares in Kingspan representing 8.01% of
Kingspan's share capital.



For further information contact:



Gordon Murphy     Tel: [phone]

Company Secretary

Kingspan Group plc