PDMR Dealings and Total Voting Rights

James Latham plc

("James Latham" or "the Company")

PDMR Dealings and Total Voting Rights

James Latham announces that on 13 December 2017, it transferred 50,000 of its Treasury Shares into the James Latham plc Employee Benefits Scheme in order to provide shares to satisfy the requirements of the Company's share option schemes.

Following this transfer, the total number of voting rights is 19,690,800.  This figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

The Company also announces that on 13 December 2017, the Trustees of the Company's CSOP scheme issued 5,502 shares to certain PDMRs of the Company under the 2012 CSOP scheme at 272.5p per share as below, and to Andrew Wright under the 2011 CSOP scheme at 229.5p per share.  The resulting shareholdings are shown in the table below.

In addition, the Company announces that on 14 December 2017, the Trustees of the Company's CSOP scheme issued 13,820 share options at 802.5p to be exercised between 15 December 2022 and 14 December 2027.  This includes options granted to the following PDMRs: