Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1603I

Cropper(James) PLC

19 March 2018

James Cropper Plc

(the "Company")

Notification of Transaction of Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility

("PDMR")

The Company was notified on 19 March 2018 that, on the same day, the Trustees of James Cropper Plc Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 766 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	197	266.4p
21 July 2014	59	383.5p
20 July 2015	242	506.8p
18 July 2016	174	734.25p
25 July 2017	94	1682.5p

Beneficial rights to 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 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 163,693 Shares, representing 1.7% 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 766 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