Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 5245Z

Cropper(James) PLC

15 December 2017

James Cropper Plc

(the "Company")

Notification of Transaction of Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility

("PDMR")

The Company was notified on 15 December 2017 that, on the same day, the Trustees of James Cropper Plc Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 667 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
23 July 2013	122	266.4p
21 July 2014	85	383.5p
20 July 2015	202	506.8p
18 July 2016	176	734.25p
25 July 2017	82	1682.5p

Beneficial rights to the participants are recognised immediately upon reward.

The SIP trust holds Shares for a 5-year period from the date of the award and then transfers the Shares to the participants. The Shares have been transferred to the participants earlier as, under the Scheme rules, the participants are deemed to be leavers.

As a result of the above transaction, the JC SIP Plan is interested in 165,117 Shares, representing 1.7% if 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 667 Shares.

Enquiries:

James Cropper PLC (Aim:CRPR)

Isabelle Maddock, Group Finance Director

Jim Aldridge, Company Secretary

Tel: +44 (0) 1539 722002

www.cropper.com

Stockdale Securities Limited

Robert Finlay, Henry Willcocks

Richard Johnson