Director/PDMR Shareholding

16 December 2016

James Cropper PLC (the 'Company')

Issue of equity and Notification of Transactions of

Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR")

The Company has been notified that the Trustees of James Cropper PLC Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") have today transferred 137 ordinary shares of 25p each ("Shares") in the Company to a participant of the SIP Scheme.

The shares were awarded to the participant on:

Beneficial rights to the participant are recognised immediately upon reward.

The SIP trust holds the Shares for a 5 year period from award and then transfers the Shares to the participant. The Shares would be transferred to the participant earlier if under the Scheme rules the participant was deemed to be a leaver.

As a result of the above transaction, the JC SIP Plan is interested in 167,023 Shares, representing 1.8% 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 137 Shares

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