Director/PDMR Shareholding

Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC
25 September 2006


                   Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC (the 'Company')

                         Long Term Incentive Plan 2003



Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC announces that as a result of the achievement of the
targets of the LTIP 2003 Scheme, Peter Graham, a PDMR, has today exercised
options to subscribe for 50,000 ordinary shares in the Company at a total
exercise price of £1.


The Company has also today been advised that Mr P Graham has sold 20,561
ordinary shares at 246p per share on 20 September 2006.










                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange