Director/PDMR Shareholding

Cropper(James) PLC
20 December 2005


                       James Cropper PLC ('the Company')

         Sale of shares by James Cropper PLC Pension Scheme ('the Scheme')


In late 2004 the trustees of the Scheme undertook a review of the Scheme's
Investment Strategy inconjunction with its advisers. The aim of the review was
to align the Scheme's assets with the changing age profile of its membership
resulting from the closure of the Scheme to new membership in 1999. As a result
of this review the trustees have embarked upon a Strategy that will
progressively increase the proportion of its funds held in bonds with a
consequent reduction in equities.


The Company was notified on 19 December 2005 that the Scheme had sold 50,000
ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') at a price
of 185 pence per Ordinary Share. Following this disposal the Scheme now holds
241,000 Ordinary Shares representing 2.9 per cent of the Company's issued
ordinary share capital.


Two executive directors Mr John Malcolm Denman and Mr Nigel Anthony Read are
trustees of the Scheme and are therefore deemed to have a non-beneficial
interest in the Scheme.


20 December 2005







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