Premier Foods PLC

Major Shareholding Notification • Apr 29, 2014

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RNS Number : 8199F

Premier Foods plc

29 April 2014

TR-1:          Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1:   Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	Premier Foods PLC GB00B7N0K053

2:    Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		Yes
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying Premier Foods PLC financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached		no
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments		no
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights		no
Other (please specify):		no

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification                          obligation:	Schroders plc
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):	N/A
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold        is crossed or reached):	24 April 2014
6. Date on which issuer notified:	28 April 2014
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Above 11%

8:    Notified Details
## A:   Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of share  If possible use ISIN code		GB00B7N0K053
### Situation previous to the triggering transaction
Number of shares		Number of voting rights
24,024,331		24,024,331
### Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of shares	Number of voting rights		Percentage of voting rights
Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
91,625,457	N/A	91,625,457	N/A	11.125%

## B:   Qualifying Financial Instruments
### Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)	Percentage of voting rights
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
### Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion period	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Nominal	Delta
N/A	N/A

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
91,625,457	11.125%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
Cazenove Capital Management Limited            320,400          0.039% Schroder Investment Management Limited       91,305,057     11.086%

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:	N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:	N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:	N/A

13. Additional information:	The shares referred to in section 9 are held in portfolios managed by those firms on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.  This disclosure has been calculated based on issued share capital amount 823,607,761
14. Contact name:	Andrew McDonald, General Counsel & Company Secretary
15. Contact telephone number:	01727 815 850

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