Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8471Z

Cropper(James) PLC

20 December 2017

James Cropper Plc

(the "Company")

Notification of Transaction of Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility

("PDMR")

The Company was notified on 19 December 2017 that, on the same day, the Trustees of James Cropper Plc Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 248 ordinary shares of 25p each ("Shares") in the Company to Jane Baker, a participant of the SIP Scheme and a PDMR.

The Shares were awarded to the participant on:

Date of award	Number of Shares	Price per Share
21 July 2014	33	383.5p
18 July 2016	215	734.25p

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.

The beneficial Interest in Shares for Jane Baker remains the same.

As a result of the above transaction, the JC SIP Plan is interested in 164,869 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 248 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