Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1267Y

Premier Foods plc

27 August 2009

 



      Premier Foods plc (the 'Company')

27 August 2009

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS AND OTHER PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

We wish to notify the following, in accordance with DTR 3.1.4(1)(a) of the Disclosure Rules and Transparency Rules.

On 27 August 2009 the Independent Trustee of the Premier Foods Plc Employee Benefit Trust notified the Company that it had purchased 2,994 ordinary shares of the Company at a price of 44.139 pence per share and the shares had been allocated and granted to the following Directors under the Company's Deferred Bonus Plan ('Deferred Bonus Plan'). The Purchase represents the adjustment of awards following the Firm Placing, Placing and Open Offer ('the Open Offer') to take account of the variation of the Company's share capital resulting from the Open Offer.

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 Deferred Bonus Plan is set out in the table below.

Dire Director/PRMR	No. of shares purchased	Total Number of Deferred Bonus Options
Robert Schofield	1,703	34,958
Paul Thomas	1,241	25,495

Suzanne Wise

General Counsel & Company Secretary

Premier Foods plc

Tel: [phone]

 

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