Director/PDMR Shareholding

Premier Foods plc
17 July 2006


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 17 July 2006 Abacus Corporate Trustee Limited as trustee of the Premier Foods
plc Employee Benefit Trust notified the Company and the under-mentioned persons
of an increase in their interests in ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the
Company following the purchase on 12 July 2006 of 813 ordinary shares at a price
of £3.17 per share.  This purchase represented the notional reinvestment of the
gross dividend paid to shareholders on 7 July 2006 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                  (2) Dividend            (3) 2006 Deferred
Director                     Reinvestment            Bonus Options

Robert Schofield             469                     16,282
Paul Thomas                  344                     11,938


Enquiries
Andrew Astin, tel: [phone]
Premier Foods plc






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