Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number:3778U
Arla Foods UK PLC
04 April 2007


1.                    ARLA FOODS UK PLC SHARE SCHEMES

1.1                Acquisition of shares by an EBT

On 3 April 2002 the Company was notified that Ogier Employee Benefit Trustee
Limited as trustee of the Express Dairies Employee Share Ownership Trust (the
"Trust") subscribed for 1,706,542 ordinary shares of 2p each in the Company at a
price of 2p per share on 29 March 2007.

The total holding of the Trust following this acquisition is 3,807,704 ordinary
shares of the Company.

The Trust is a discretionary trust established by the Company for the benefit of
employees of the Company and its subsidiaries. The executive directors of the
Company named below are, together with all of the Company's employees, potential
beneficiaries under the Trust and are, therefore, for the purposes of the
Companies Act 1985, deemed to have a notifiable interest in all the shares held
by the Trust:

Martin Gilbert

Nigel Peet

Tim Smith

Simon Stevens

1.2                Arla Foods UK plc Director/PDMR shareholding

On 3 April 2007 the Company was notified that awards under the Express Dairies
plc Long Term Incentive Plan 1998 (the "Plan") had vested. The participants of
the Plan include certain executive directors and other senior executives of the
Company discharging managerial responsibilities (together "Managers"). The
vested awards are to be satisfied by ordinary shares of 2p each in the Company
held by Ogier Employee Benefit Trustee Limited as trustee of the Trust.

Details of the shares held by the Trust in relation to awards held by Managers
pursuant to the Plan which vested are as follows:
Manager          Position                   Shares under award which
                                             vested on 2 April 2007
                                                 under the Plan
Martin Gilbert   Executive director                 203,778

Nigel Peet       Executive director                 285,449

Tim Smith        Executive director                 451,168

Simon Stevens    Executive director                 281,230

John Price       Person discharging                 185,543
                 managerial
                 responsibilities ("PDMR")

                 PDMR                                49,717

Adrian Thompson  PDMR                               197,869

Peter Walker     PDMR                                51,788

Colin Lyness

Following the vesting of awards as detailed above, the Trust's holding of
ordinary shares in the Company will be reduced to nil.

1.3                Arla Foods UK plc PDMR shareholding

On 3 April 2007 the Company was notified that options under the Company's Share
Option Plan 1998 and the Company's 2004 Company Share Option Plan (together the
"CSOPs") had been exercised on 2 April 2007 and 3 April 2007. The participants
of the CSOPs include certain PDMR. The exercised options are to be satisfied by
new issue ordinary shares of 2p each in the Company.

Details of the shares acquired by the PDMRs on the exercise of their options are
as follows:
+--------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|PDMR                            |Shares acquired on 2 April 2007   |
|                                |pursuant to the exercise of       |
|                                |options under the CSOPs           |
+--------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|Adrian Thompson                 |56,204                            |
+--------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|Colin Lyness                    |59,164                            |
+--------------------------------+----------------------------------+





John Price

Company Secretary

Arla Foods UK PLC




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