Director/PDMR Shareholding

AstraZeneca PLC 18 August 2006 Transaction by Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities Disclosure Rules DR 3.1.2R We hereby inform you that on 17 August 2006, Jan Lundberg, Executive Vice-President, Discovery Research, a person discharging managerial responsibilities, exercised options over 71,032 AstraZeneca PLC USD0.25 Ordinary Shares as follows: - option over 11,952 shares at an option price of 2714 pence per share - option over 26,725 shares at an option price of 1913 pence per share - option over 32,355 shares at an option price of 2231 pence per share The options were granted to Mr Lundberg under the Company's 1994 Executive Share Option Scheme and the AstraZeneca Share Option Plan. We also inform you that on 17 August 2006, Mr Lundberg sold the 71,032 shares acquired from the exercise at an average price of 3291 pence per share. G H R Musker Company Secretary 18 August 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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