Director/PDMR Shareholding

6 June 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, has been informed of the following purchase of the Company's ordinary shares of 25 pence ("Ordinary Shares") by a connected party of Joe Oatley who, as announced on 30 May, will be appointed as Group Chief Executive Officer with effect from 29 June 2012.

Jane Oatley, the wife of Joe Oatley, purchased 40,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of 253 pence per share on 1 June 2012. Following this transaction, Joe Oatley and his connected parties have a beneficial interest of 40,000 Ordinary Shares representing 0.033 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.