18th Aug 2006 16:00
AstraZeneca PLC18 August 2006 Transaction by Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities Disclosure Rules DR 3.1.2R We hereby inform you that on 17 August 2006, Jan Lundberg, ExecutiveVice-President, Discovery Research, a person discharging managerialresponsibilities, exercised options over 71,032 AstraZeneca PLC USD0.25 OrdinaryShares as follows: - option over 11,952 shares at an option price of 2714 pence per share - option over 26,725 shares at an option price of 1913 pence per share - option over 32,355 shares at an option price of 2231 pence per share The options were granted to Mr Lundberg under the Company's 1994 Executive ShareOption Scheme and the AstraZeneca Share Option Plan. We also inform you that on 17 August 2006, Mr Lundberg sold the 71,032 sharesacquired from the exercise at an average price of 3291 pence per share. G H R Musker Company Secretary 18 August 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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