Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3253X

Cropper(James) PLC

23 November 2017

James Cropper Plc

(the "Company")

Notification of Transaction of Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility

("PDMR")

The Company was notified on 22 November 2017 that, on 21 November, the Trustees of James Cropper Plc Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 233 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	111	383.5p

In addition, the Company was notified on 22 November that, on 21 November, the Trustees of James Cropper Plc Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 82 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
25 July 2017	82	1682.5p

Further, the Company was notified on 22 November that, on 21 November, the Trustees of James Cropper Plc Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 5 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
25 July 2017	5	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 165,939 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

320 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