RNS Number:8234L
AGA Foodservice Group PLC
18 October 2001


                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

     AGA FOODSERVICE GROUP PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

     AMVESCAP PLC

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

     NOTIFICATION IN RESPECT OF SHAREHOLDERS REFERRED TO IN BOX 4

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

     PLEASE SEE BELOW NOTIFICATION DATED 17TH OCTOBER 2001 FROM AMVESCAP PLC

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

     -

6)   ( - %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

     -

8)   ( - %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security

     ORDINARY SHARES OF 25P EACH

10)  Date of transaction

     -

11)  Date company informed

     18TH OCTOBER 2001

12)  Total holding following this notification

     16,933,579
               
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

     13.245%

14)  Any additional information

     -

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

     D.J. SOLOMON     0121 742 2366

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

     Date of Notification ....18TH OCTOBER 2001....................



Letter to: Aga Foodservice Group PLC
Dated:     17th October 2001

SECTION 198 COMPANIES ACT 1985 ("THE ACT")

We write to give you notice that, following the purchase of 690,000 shares on 
16th October 2001, AMVESCAP PLC and subsidiary companies on behalf of 
discretionary clients, have an interest within the meaning of Part VI of the Act
in 16,933,579 Ordinary 25p Shares of your Company, (representing 13.245%)*; 
details of that interest, together with a breakdown between registered holders 
(as required by Section 202 (3) of the Act), are set out below:
 
Vidacos Nominees Limited                                  14,040,504
Chase Nominees Limited                                     1,941,050
HSBC Nominees Limited                                        735,000
Bank of New York Nominees Limited                            215,000
CM Investment Nominees Limited A/C PEP                         1,500
CM Investment Nominees Limited A/C 50376                         525

We wish to advise you that none of these shares are beneficially owned by 
AMVESCAP. Subsidiary companies of AMVESCAP have a large number of portfolio 
management clients for whom they act as investment manager and investment 
advisor and by virtue of Section 203 of the Companies Act 1985 AMVESCAP is 
deemed to have the same interest in the shares.

We would further advise thai the above holding includes the following notifiable
holding:- INVESCO Perpetual High Income Fund holds 6,661,429 shares (5.21%*), 
registered in the name of Vidacos Nominees Limited.


*Based on an issued share capital of 127,840,064

Letter from: Amvescap PLC
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