Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 2511R

Cropper(James) PLC

08 December 2016

8 December 2016

James Cropper PLC (the 'Company')

Notification of Transactions of

Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR")

The Company was notified on 7 December that on 7 December 2016 the Trustees of James Cropper PLC Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 46 ordinary shares of 25p each ("Shares") in the Company to a participant of the SIP Scheme.

The shares were awarded to the participant on:

Date of award	Number of Shares	Price per Share
20 July 2015	21	506.8p
18 July 2016	25	734.25p

Beneficial rights to the participant are recognised immediately upon reward.

The SIP trust holds the Shares for a 5 year period from award and then transfers the Shares to the participant. The Shares would be transferred to the participant earlier if under the Scheme rules the participant was deemed to be a leaver.

As a result of the above transaction, the JC SIP Plan is interested in 167,160 Shares, representing 1.8% of the issued share capital of the Company.

As a result of the change in interest of the JC SIP Plan, the non - beneficial interest of the following PDMR was decreased by:

David Nicholson 46 Shares

Enquiries:

James Cropper PLC (Aim:CRPR)

Isabelle Maddock, Group Finance Director

Jim Aldridge, Company Secretary

www.cropper.com

01539 722002

Stockdale Securities Limited

Robert Finlay

David Coaten