James Latham plc ("James Latham" or "the Company") PDMR Dealings

James Latham announces that on 6 December 2016, the Trustees of the Company's CSOP scheme issued 6,968 shares to certain PDMRs of the Company under the 2011 CSOP scheme at 229.5p per share as below, and to Andrew Wright under the 2010 CSOP scheme at 197.5p per share. The resulting shareholdings are shown in the table below.

PDMR

CSOP allocation

Resultant Total Shareholding

Resultant Total Voting Rights

Peter Latham Nick Latham

1,742

1,742

1,134,491

627,196

5.78%

3.19%

David Dunmow

Piers Latham Andrew Wright

1,742

1,742

2,025

125,683

624,608

22,303

0.64%

3.18%

0.11%

In addition, the Company announces that on 6 December 2016, the Trustees of the Company's CSOP scheme issued 15,435 share options at 707.5p to be exercised between 7 December 2021 and 6 December 2026. This includes options granted to the following PDMRs:

PDMR

Options granted

Nick Latham

636

David Dunmow

636

Chris Sutton

636

Piers Latham

636

Andrew Wright

636

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014.

Enquiries

James Latham plc

Tel: 01442 849 100

David Dunmow, Finance Director

Northland Capital Partners Limited Nominated Adviser and Broker

Tel: 0203 861 6625

Matthew Johnson / Edward Hutton

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