Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4039N

Latham(James) PLC

25 July 2014

James Latham plc

("James Latham" or the "Company")

Directors' Shareholdings

James Latham announces that on 25 July 2014 the Trustees of the Company's CSOP scheme issued 6,894 ordinary 25p shares in the Company at 116.0p per share to certain directors following the exercise of options granted under the scheme in December 2008.

Director	CSOP Scheme Exercise	Resultant Total Shareholding	Percentage of Company's Total Voting Rights
David Dunmow	3,447	102,222	0.53
Chris Sutton	3,447	37,791	0.19

In addition, the Company announces that the Trustees of the James Latham plc Employee Benefits Scheme acquired 20,000 ordinary 25p shares in the Company on 25 July 2014 at 475p per share. The Trustees include Pippa Latham and David Dunmow, who are both directors of the Company.

The resultant shareholding is 82,900 ordinary shares representing 0.43 per cent. of the Company's Total Voting Rights. These shares are not allocated to specific employees, although some of the shares may in future be allocated to directors.

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