Director/PDMR Shareholding

11 May 2012

Cape plc

("Cape" or the "Company")

Director/ PDMR Shareholding

Cape plc, the international provider of essential, non-mechanical support services to the energy and mineral resources sectors, was informed on 10 May 2012 of the following purchase by a Director of the Company's ordinary shares of 25 pence ("Ordinary Shares"):

Brendan Connolly, Acting Chief Executive, purchased 8,450 Ordinary Shares at a price of 355 pence per share on 10 May 2012, following which he has a beneficial interest in 10,950 Ordinary Shares representing 0.009 per cent of the issued share capital and total voting rights of the Company.

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Cape plc (www.capeplc.com), which is listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, provides a range of non-mechanical industrial services including access systems, insulation, painting, coatings, blasting, industrial cleaning, training and assessment to both industrial plant operators and major international engineering and construction companies.

As a single source provider, Cape is able to provide a range of specialist multi-disciplinary services specifically tailored to meet the needs of the client providing the most intelligent and cost efficient solutions for our customers' non-mechanical in-plant maintenance and capital needs.

In the year ended 31 December 2011, Cape reported revenues of £722.5 million. With scale and leading market positions across its international footprint, Cape employs over 19,000 people in 30 countries.