Holding in Company

Brooks Service Group PLC
11 December 2000


                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

     BROOKS SERVICE GROUP PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

     PLEASE REFER TO LETTER DATED 7/12/00 FROM MACFARLANES (SOLICITORS)(SEE     
     BELOW) 

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



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



5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.



6)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed



8)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security



10)  Date of transaction



11)  Date company informed

     POST 11/12/00

12)  Total holding following this notification


               
              
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification



14)  Any additional information

     DEALINGS ASSOCIATED WITH OFFER DOCUMENT POSTED ON 5/12/00.

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

     PATRICK MULCAHY: [phone]

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

     Date of Notification: 11/12/2000



Letter to: Brooks Service Group Plc
Letter dated: 7 December 2000

Notification concerning interests in shares in Brooks Service Group Plc 
('the Company')

We have been authorised and instructed by the following entities to make formal
notifications under the Companies Act 1985 ('the Act') on their respective
behalves, resulting from the recommended cash offer made by Rickitt Mitchell &
Partners Limited on behalf of Bravo Investments Plc on 5 December 2000 ('the
Offer'). The entities concerned are:

*  Bravo Investments Plc

*  Bravo (Holdings) Limited

*  Alchemy Partners GP (Guernsey) LP, as General Partner of a number of Limited 
   Partnerships.

*  Stichting AP GP

Each of the above entities ('the Interested Entities') has acquired a notifiable
interest, within the meaning of Sections 199(2), 203 and 208 of the Act, in
aggregate in 2,919,421 ordinary shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company
('Ordinary Shares') as a consequence of the Offer.

Accordingly we have been instructed to give notice to the Company, pursuant to
the provisions of Sections 198(I) and 202(4) of the Act, of the matters referred
to below. This notice is given in fulfilment of, and for the express purpose of
discharging the obligations imposed on the entities described above by, the said
sections and the related provisions of Part VI of the Act:

1. As a result of irrevocable undertakings entered into with R S Brooks, his
immediate family and the trustees of his family trusts, the Interested Entities
have acquired a notifiable interest in 1,812,421 Ordinary Shares (representing
approximately 13.9 percent of the existing issued share capital of the Company).
R S Brooks, his immediate family and the trustees of his family trusts continue
to be the registered holders of these ordinary shares, full details being set
out in part 1 of the first schedule to this letter.

As a result of irrevocable undertakings entered into with the other independent
directors of the Company, the Interested Entities have acquired a notifiable
interest in 217,500 Ordinary Shares (representing approximately 1.6 percent of
the existing issued share capital of the Company). The independent directors
continue to be the registered holders of these ordinary shares, full details
being set out in part 2 of the first schedule to this letter.

2. As a result of arrangements entered into with members of the Company's
management, Mr Walters and Mr Mulcahy (or members of their immediate families),
the Interested Entities have acquired a notifiable interest in 153,500 and
36,000 Ordinary Shares respectively. Mr Walters and Mr Mulcahy (or members of
their immediate families) continue to be the registered holders of these
ordinary shares, full details being set out in the second schedule to this
letter.

3. As a result of market purchases on 7 December 2000 by Bravo Investment Plc,
the Interested Entities have acquired a notifiable interest in 700,000 Ordinary
Shares (representing approximately 5.36 percent of the existing issued share
capital of the Company). Bravo Investments Plc has acquired these Ordinary
Shares.

4. The registered and postal address of Bravo Investments Plc is 20 Bedfordbury,
London WC2N 4BL, and it is registered in England with the company number
4092652.

Letter from: MACFARLANES


                                    Schedule 1

Shares in respect of which irrevocable undertakings have been given by R S
Brooks, his immediate family and trustees of his family trusts.

                                      Part 1

Name of registered holder              No. of Ordinary Shares held

Victoria Guthrie Botsford                          144,704

Mrs Helen Rosemary Brooks                          270,000

Mr Richard Adam Brooks                             144,704

Mr Richard Adam Brooks 
and Mrs Victoria Guthrie Botsford (No 1)           105,050

Mr Richard Adam Brooks 
and Mrs Victoria Guthrie Botsford (No 2)            35,300

Mr Richard Simon Brooks                            652,824

Mr Richard Simon Brooks                            153,000

Capel-Cure Myers Nominees Limited                  162,135

Mrs Emma Louise Thompson                           144,704



                               Schedule 1

Shares in respect of which irrevocable undertakings have been given by the other
independent directors.

                                 Part 2

Name of registered holder                 No. of Ordinary Shares held

Mr Andrew Davidson & 
Poynton York Trustees (A/C LF)                  44,000

Ludgate Twenty Three Limited                    10,000

Productive Nominees Limited                     13,500

Mr David Malcolm Telling                       150,000



                               Schedule 2

Shares held by management (or their immediate family) in which the Interested
Entities have a notifiable interest.

Name of registered holder                  No. of Ordinary Shares held

Mrs Linda Walters                              153,500

Mr Patrick John Mulcahy                         36,000