Nil Paid Rights

Premier Foods plc
24 August 2006

                               Premier Foods plc

  NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS AND PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL
                                RESPONSIBILITIES


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

The Company was today informed of the sales, on 23 August 2006, of Nil Paid
Rights as set out in the table below by the directors whose names appear in that
table.


Name of Director                    Number of NPRs sold      Value of individual
                                                             NPR
Directors

Robert Schofield                    651,622                  £0.655

Paul Thomas                         250,064                  £0.65


Enquiries

Andrew Astin, tel: [phone]

Premier Foods plc


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