2016 Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of AGM

Dairy Crest Group plc (the "Company")

20 June 2016

2016 Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of Annual General Meeting

Pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.3, the Company confirms that copies of its Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2016 and its Notice of Annual General Meeting (the "Shareholder Documents") have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

The Shareholder Documents are also available via the Company's website at http://www.dairycrest.co.uk/investors and from the Company's registered office at Claygate House, Littleworth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9PN.

Hard copy versions of the Shareholder Documents have been posted to those shareholders who have elected to receive them in paper form.

The Company's Annual General Meeting will be held at 3.30pm on Tuesday 19 July 2016 at Eversheds LLP, One Wood Street, London, EC2V 7WS.

For further information please contact:

Robin Miller

Company Secretary & General Counsel

Telephone : 01372 472252