Holding(s) in Company

Colefax Group PLC
30 July 2002

                       Colefax Group plc (the 'Company')
                               Holding in Company



The Company was informed on 29 July 2002 that Schroder Investment Management
Limited ('SIML') had an interest in 2,492,503 shares which were managed by them
on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.



The shares are held in (a) unit trusts(s) operated and managed by an affiliated
company, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited ('SUTL'), and registered or to be
registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited.



This interest represents 11.61% of the issued share capital of the Company.



This notification was made:



(a)    in respect of SIML's interest as investment managers

(b)   on behalf of SUTL in relation to the interests they are treated as having
respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and

(c)    on behalf of Schroders plc., SIML's holding company, which is treated as
having an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of its
ownership of SUTL and SIML.



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                       Colefax Group plc (the 'Company')
                               Holding in Company



The Company was informed on 29 July 2002 that funds managed by Discretionary
Unit Fund Managers Limited, as a result of share buybacks by the Company, had
the following interest in the Company:


                                                    Shares held               %
Discretionary Unit Fund                                 900,000            4.19
Rights & Issues Investment Trust plc                  2,100,000            9.79
                                                   
Total                                                 3,000,000           13.98



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                       Colefax Group plc (the 'Company')
                               Holding in Company



The Company was informed on 29 July 2002 by J.P.Morgan Securities Ltd, on behalf
of The Fleming Mercantile Investment Trust Plc, that it no longer has a
notifiable interest in the share capital of the Company.


                                                      Shares held              %
The Fleming Mercantile Investment Trust Plc                     0              0



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