Director/PDMR Shareholding

Premier Foods plc
09 January 2008

                               Premier Foods plc


  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 9 January 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 7 January 2008 of 1,199 ordinary shares
at a price of 195.5 pence per share.  This purchase represented the reinvestment
of the notional gross dividend paid to shareholders on 4 January 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

Robert Schofield                     693                     32,234

Paul Thomas                          506                     23,510


Andrew Astin
Company Secretary
Premier Foods plc



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