Holding in Company

Greencore Group PLC
16 March 2006

GREENCORE GROUP PLC





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NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST IN GREENCORE SHARES







GREENCORE GROUP PLC ('GREENCORE') HAS RECEIVED A NOTIFICATION TODAY FROM BANK OF
IRELAND ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED ('BANK OF IRELAND') DATED 16TH MARCH 2006, THAT
BANK OF IRELAND HAS A NOTIFIABLE INTEREST IN 24,987,420 (12.78%) ORDINARY SHARES
IN THE ISSUED ORDINARY SHARE CAPITAL OF GREENCORE.  OF THESE, 27,844 SHARES ARE
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF MELLON NOMINEES LIMITED 1,920,233 SHARES ARE
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF NORTRUST NOMINEES LIMITED, 197,682 SHARES ARE
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF BNY CUSTODIAL NOMINEES LIMITED AND 22,841,661 SHARES
ARE REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF BANK OF IRELAND NOMINEES LIMITED, AS REGISTERED
OWNER ONLY, ON BEHALF OF A RANGE OF CLIENTS WHO ARE EACH THE BENEFICIAL OWNER OF
A PORTION OF THE SHAREHOLDING.





C.M. BERGIN,

GROUP COMPANY SECRETARY







GREENCORE GROUP PLC

ST. STEPHENS'S GREEN HOUSE,

EARLSFORT TERRACE,

DUBLIN 2.
       16TH MARCH 2006







This announcement has been issued through the Companies Announcement Service of

                            the Irish Stock Exchange




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