Holding(s) in Company

TR-1 : NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached: ii

Halfords Group plc

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

YES

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation: iii

Vulcan Value Partners, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Vulcan")

C.T.Fitzpatrick, an individual resident of Alabama, United States of America

4. Full name of shareholder(s)  (if different from 3.):iv

Vulcan Value Partners, LLC is the investment advisor to (1) Vulcan Value Partners Fund, a US mutual fund, (2) Vulcan Global Value Fund, plc, an Irish domiciled UCITS fund, and (3) a number of separately-managed client accounts.

The custodian for the US mutual fund is BNY Mellon.

The custodian for the UCITS fund is Sumitomo Mitsui Trustees (Ireland) Limited

Various custodians, numbering 18 in total, serve as custodian for the separately-managed accounts. See additional information for the full list.

5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached: v

17 March 2017

6. Date on which issuer notified:

4 April 2017

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached: vi, vii

5%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix

Class/type ofshares

if possible usingthe ISIN CODE

Situation previousto the triggeringtransaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

NumberofShares

NumberofVotingRights

Numberof shares

Number of votingrights

% of voting rights x

Direct

Direct xi

Indirect xii

Direct

Indirect

GB00B012TP20

Below 5%

Below 5%

N/A

N/A

10,082,143

N/A

5.06%

GB00B012TP20

Below 5%

Below 5%

N/A

N/A

120,827

N/A

0.06%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate xiii

Exercise/Conversion Period xiv

Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted.

% of votingrights

N/A

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exercise price

Expiration date xvii

Exercise/Conversion period xviii

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights xix, xx

N/A

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

10,082,143

5.12% of which Vulcan exercises the voting rights over 5.06%. The voting rights of the remaining 0.06% of shares are not exercised by Vulcan, but the shares are held on behalf of their managed accounts.

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi

Vulcan Value Partners, LLC is controlled by C.T.Fitzpatrick by virtue of C.T.Fitzpatrick holding a majority of voting and economic rights in it.

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information:

The 18 custodians referred to in item 4 above are as follows:

BNY Wealth

BNY-CEF

BNY Mellon

Comerica Bank

Fidelity

Fifth Third Bank

JP Morgan

Key Bank

Mellon Asset Servicing

Morgan Stanley

Northern Trust

Pershing

PNC Bank

Schwab

State Street

US Bank

Wells Fargo

Wilmington Trust

14. Contact name:

W.Blevins Naff (Chief Compliance Officer)

15. Contact telephone number:

+1 205 803 1582