Trading Update

Cropper(James) PLC

22 March 2017

James Cropper plc ("James Cropper" or the "Company")

Trading update

The Board of James Cropper PLC is pleased to issue a positive trading update for the 52 weeks to 1 April 2017.

During the year James Cropper experienced healthy sales growth across both the Paper and Technical Fibre Products businesses. The impact of foreign exchange movements has also been favourable to our export business

Accordingly, the Board expects the results for the year ending 1 April 2017 to be moderately ahead of its previous expectations. Additional modest gains may also be realised from the capitalisation of development costs in its 3DP division, the treatment of which is currently under consideration. The outlook for next year remains encouraging with growth expected across all three businesses. 

The Board also wishes to announce that Doug Mitchell, a Non-Executive Director of James Cropper for 5 years, is retiring at the end of this month. The post of Non-Executive Director will be filled in the coming months. The Board wishes to thanks Doug for his strong contributions to the Company during his time with James Cropper.

This announcement contains information which would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement.

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