Director/PDMR Shareholding

Avacta Group PLC
04 April 2008

                               Avacta  Group plc

                            Directors' Shareholdings


Avacta Group plc (the 'Company') announces that it has received notification of
the following transactions undertaken by Directors of the Company in the
ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the capital of the Company ('Ordinary Shares').
Each transaction represents the sale of Ordinary Shares to the director's SIPP
and has been undertaken for tax planning purposes.  There is no change to the
beneficial interest of any of the directors.


Director              Date of                            Sale price                      Total shareholding
                      transaction      Ordinary          per share     Total             as a percentage of
                      (2008)           Shares sold to    (p)           shareholding      issued ordinary
                                       the SIPP                                          share capital

Alastair Smith        3 April          1,838,286         4.00          49,617,468        6.03

Kurt  Baldwin         3 April          870,625           4.00          48,824,258        5.93

Simon Webster         4 April          888,475           4.25          48,824,258        5.93

Russell Hodgetts      3 April          619,383           4.00          9,847,912         1.20





For further information, please contact:

Alastair Smith, Chief Executive                        Tel:  [phone]

David Youngman, WH Ireland Limited                     Tel:  [phone]

Henry Turcan, Novum Securities Limited                 Tel: [phone]






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