Director/PDMR Shareholding

4 July 2018

James Cropper Plc

(the "Company")

Notification of Transaction of Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility

("PDMR")

The Company was notified on 4 July 2018 that, on the same day, the Trustees of James Cropper Plc Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 766 ordinary shares of 25p each ("Shares") in the Company to a participant of the SIP Scheme.

The Shares were awarded to the participant on:

In addition, the Company was notified on 4 July 2018 that, on the same day, the Trustees of James Cropper Plc Share Incentive Plan ("JC SIP Plan") transferred 82 ordinary shares of 25p each ("Shares") in the Company to Jan Mason, a PDMR and a participant of the SIP Scheme.

The Shares were awarded to the participant on:

Beneficial rights to 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.

The beneficial interest in Shares for Jan Mason remains the same.

As a result of the above transactions, the JC SIP Plan is interested in 162,178 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 848 Shares.

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