Premier Foods has been under pressure to improve its performance since rejecting a 2016 takeover bid from U.S. food-maker McCormick and Hong Kong-based Oasis wants to remove Chief Executive Gavin Darby.

"Oasis have CEO candidates who have approached us,  have excellent skills and are available immediately," the investor said in an email on Monday.

Oasis, Premier's second-largest shareholder with a 9.3 percent stake, raised the heat on the owner of brands including Mr Kipling cakes, questioning Premier's board's culture after its own chairman Keith Hamill called some of the British firm's brands "weak cards".

(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru, editing by Louise Heavens)