NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS AND PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
We wish to notify the following, in accordance with Rules 3.1.4(1)(a) and 3.1.4 (1)(b) of the Disclosure Rules.
On 4 July 2008 Abacus Corporate Trustee Limited as trustee of the Premier Foods plc Employee Benefit Trust notified the Company and the under-mentioned persons (1) of an increase in their interests in ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company following the purchase on 4 July 2008 of 1,765 ordinary shares at a price of 69.5 pence per share. This purchase represented the reinvestment of the notional gross dividend paid to shareholders on 4 July 2008 in respect of the nil-cost options granted to those persons under the Company's Deferred Bonus Plan in the proportions shown in column (2) of the table below.
Following this purchase, the total number of ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company over which the directors concerned hold options under the Company's Deferred Bonus Plan is set out in column (3) of the table below.
(1) Name of Director |
(2) Dividend Reinvestment |
(3) Deferred Bonus Options |
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Robert Schofield |
1021 |
33,255 |
Paul Thomas |
744 |
24,254 |
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Suzanne Wise
Group Counsel & Company Secretary
7 July 2008