Issue of Equity and PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1757Z

Cropper(James) PLC

10 March 2017

James Cropper PLC (the 'Company')

Issue of equity and Notification of Transactions of

Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR")

The Company has been notified today that, on 8 March 2017, the Trustees of James Cropper PLC Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 882 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
16 July 2012	166	180.8p
23 July 2013	122	266.4p
21 July 2014	137	383.5p
20 July 2015	242	506.8p
18 July 2016	215	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 have been transferred to the participant earlier as, under the Scheme rules, the participant is deemed to be a leaver.

As a result of the above transaction, the JC SIP Plan is interested in 175,515 Shares, representing 1.9% 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 882 Shares

Enquiries:

James Cropper PLC (Aim:CRPR)

Isabelle Maddock, Group Finance Director

Jim Aldridge, Company Secretary

www.cropper.com

+44 (0) 1539 722002

Stockdale Securities Limited

Robert Finlay

David Coaten