Director/PDMR Shareholding

27 September 2017

James Cropper Plc

(the "Company")

Notification of Transaction of Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility

("PDMR")

The Company was notified on 27 September that, on the same day, the Trustees of James Cropper Plc Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 85 ordinary shares of 25p each ("Shares") in the Company to a participant of the SIP Scheme.

The Shares were awarded to the participant on 25 July 2017 at a price of 1682.5p per Share.

Beneficial rights to the participant 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 participant. 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 166,259 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 85 Shares.

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