Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3972P

Premier Foods plc

24 March 2009

Premier Foods plc (the 'Company')

Share Interests of Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities (PDMRs)

The Company has been notified today that the Directors and PDMRs listed below have subscribed for and have been allotted the following ordinary shares of 1p each ('Shares') in the Company, at an issue price of 26p per Share, pursuant to the Placing and Open Offer and Firm Placing ('the Offer') announced by the Company on 5 March 2009.

The Offer was approved by the shareholders at an Extraordinary General Meeting held on Monday, 23 March 2009 and the Shares were unconditionally allotted and admitted to trading today.

Directors:

Names	No of shares taken-up under the Offer	Resulting shareholding	% of issued share capital
Robert Schofield, Chief Executive	807,692	2,627,735	0.11%
Paul Thomas, Finance Director	769,231	1,472,031	0.06%
Tim Kelly, Chief Operating Officer - Hovis	62,500	112,500	< 0.01%
David Kappler, Chairman	466,902	840,424	0.04%
David Felwick, Non-Executive Director	130,965	235,737	0.01%
Ian McHoul, Non-Executive Director	93,022	177,440	0.01%
Louise Makin, Non-Executive Director	30,353	58,636	< 0.01%
Christine Cross, Non-Executive Director	50,366	90,659	< 0.01%
David Beever, Non-Executive Director	93,750	168,750	0.01%

PDMRs:

Names	No of shares taken-up under the Offer	Resulting shareholding	% of issued share capital
Brian Carlton, Human Resources Director	255,751	460,352	0.02%
Mark Hughes, Group Procurement Director	70,670	127,206	< 0.01%
Robert Lawson, Commercial Director Melanie Essex (Mr Lawson's wife)	87,669 10,088	157,806 18,159	0.01% < 0.01%
Bob Spooner, Group Operations Director	155,000	300,000	0.01%
Mark Vickery, Group IS & Change Director	40,086	72,155	< 0.01%
Suzanne Wise, General Counsel & Company Secretary	49,733	89,552	< 0.01%
Ian York, Group Sales Director	20,000	71,441	< 0.01%