HALFORDS GROUP PLC

Award of Options under Halfords Group Performance Share Plan 2005

During August 2011 the following movements have taken place in respect of awards made under the Halfords Group Performance Share Plan 2005.

The Remuneration Committee of Halfords Group plc awarded shares under the Company's Performance Share Plan 2005 ("PSP") to the following persons displaying managerial responsibility to be granted on 9 August 2011

For awards made under the Halfords Group Performance Share Plan 2005 from 2009 onwards the Committee, in making such option awards, and using its discretion, specified that subject to the rules of the PSP the Company would procure the transfer to the Awardholder such additional number of award shares as could have been acquired by the reinvestment of dividends paid on the original award shares. Such additional award shares to vest in the same proportion as the original award shares.

The maximum number of shares to be awarded in this way is to be determined on the basis that each such dividend was reinvested on the date of payment of that dividend at a price per share equal to the market value of a share on that day. The total number of shares awarded on the basis of dividends paid in 2011 is;

On 8 August 2011, the Remuneration Committee of Halfords Group plc approved the vesting of 99.01% of the awards that had been made under the PSP in 2008.

In summary the movements of options under award are therefore;

¹. The treatment of these vested awards is the subject of a another announcement.

². The figure previously reported in behalf of Andy Torrance of 226,584 was incorrect.

ALEX HENDERSON

GROUP COMPANY SECRETARY

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