Director/PDMR Shareholding

Latham(James) PLC
10 September 2007

James Latham plc ('the Company') announces that on 31 August 2007 the Trustees
of the Company's SIPS Scheme allocated 3,943 ordinary 25p shares in the Company
at 260 pence per share to the following Directors (together with total interests
in Company's shares):


Director                    SIPS Scheme allocation    Current shareholding Percentage of the Company's
                                                                                         issued shares
P D L Latham                                   117               1,055,549                       5.27%
D A Dunmow                                   1,847                  51,027                       0.25%
C D Sutton                                      66                   8,265                       0.04%
PAJ Latham                                      66                 410,085                       2.05%
N Latham                                     1,847                 497,515                       2.49%






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