Director/PDMR Shareholding

Phytopharm PLC
13 March 2008



Phytopharm plc

13 March 2008


DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING - Purchase of Ordinary Shares (the 'Shares') in
Phytopharm plc (the 'Company') by Directors of the Company under its employee
Share Incentive Plan (the 'SIP').

The SIP trustee, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited (the 'Trustee'), notified
the Company on 11 March 2008 that the following Directors of the Company
acquired Shares under the SIP on 7 March 2008, in each case, held by the
Trustee:

Director      Number of           Aggregate number of Shares held beneficially
              Shares acquired*    following acquisition (across all accounts)

Daryl Rees    1,022                                                    23,401
Piers Morgan  1,022                                                    23,401

*The number of Shares acquired includes 511 Partnership Shares purchased by each
of these Directors at 24.5 pence and 511 Matching Shares issued to each of these
Directors under a Block Listing arrangement. Both partnership and matching
elements are registered in the name of the Trustee.

The SIP operates as follows:

Each month the Trustee uses participants' contributions (which may not exceed
£125 per participant per month) to purchase shares in the market. These shares
are called 'Partnership Shares'.

At the same time the Company allots to participants via the Trustee one
'Matching Share' for every Partnership Share purchased that month. These
Matching Shares vest with the employee three years from the date of issue.

For further information, please contact:

Zoe McGowan, Company Secretary

Phytopharm plc Tel No: [phone]

Further information about Phytopharm can be found on the Company's website
www.phytopharm.com




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