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RNS Number : 0370B  
  
PZ CUSSONS PLC  
  
19 October 2009  
  
PZ Cussons Plc (the "Company")    
  
Announcement regarding dealing in shares  
  
This notification is made in accordance with DR 3.1.4R(1)(a).    
  
On 19 October 2009 Mr A G Calder exercised options granted to him under the 
Company's Executive Share Option Scheme over 211,080 ordinary shares of 1p in 
the Company at £1.407 per share.  
  
He subsequently sold 211,080 shares to the Paterson Zochonis Employee Trust 
("the Trust") on 19 October for a consideration of £2.60 per share. Mr Calder is 
Deputy Chairman of the Company and moved recently to a part-time role. The 
Company was informed by Mr Calder of this dealing on 16 October.    
  
The Trust is a discretionary trust under which the class of beneficiaries who 
may benefit comprises all bona fide employees and former employees of the 
Company and its subsidiaries including members of such employees' and former 
employees' immediate families. Accordingly, the Executive Directors and PDMRs of 
the Company are included in the class of beneficiaries and are deemed to have an 
interest in all of such shares. The Trust's holding in the ordinary shares of 1p 
in the Company is 1,256,737 shares (0.29%).   
  
No new shares have been issued in respect of any of the dealings above.  
  
19 October 2009    
  
Name of contact and telephone number for queries:      
  
Sam Plant    
  
Company Secretary, PZ Cussons Plc    
  
(T) (00) 44 (0)161 491 8000    
  
Date: 19 October 2009    
  
 
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