Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number:0407W
Bespak PLC
16 May 2002

                                  SCHEDULE 10

                   NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1) Name of company: Bespak plc


2) Name of shareholder having a major interest: Schroder Investment Management
Limited, its holding company, Schroders plc, and its subsidiaries and affiliated
companies


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:

Non-beneficial - discretionary fund manager


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

Schroder Nominees Limited - 115,000

Chase Nominees Limited - 3,523,882

Imperial Pensions Nominees Limited - 230,000

Mineworkers Pension Scheme (Client) Nominees Ltd a/c R - 326,800

British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme (Client) Nominees Ltd a/c P - 695,700

Nortrust Nominees Limited - 160,000

5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:


6) Percentage of issued class:


7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:


8) Percentage of issued class:


9) Class of security: Ordinary


10) Date of transaction:



11) Date company informed: 16 May 2002



12) Total holding following this notification: 5,051,382


13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification: 18.86

14) Any additional information: Shares in issue 26,785,889


15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Louise Scott, 020 7518 7900

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


Louise Scott, Company Secretary


Date of notification: 16 May 2002

For more information on the Bespak Group please visit our Website at http://
www.bespak.com/



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