5 August 2024

James Cropper plc

('James Cropper', the 'Company' or the 'Group')

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Circulation of Annual Report and Accounts

James Cropper plc (AIM: CRPR), the Advanced Materials and Paper & Packaging group, announces that its 2024 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") will be held on 4 September 2024 at The Bryce Institute, Burneside Mills, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 6QX, commencing at 11:30am BST.

The Notice of Meeting for the AGM together with a Form of Proxy are available to view on the Company's website at www.jamescropper.com/investors.  The Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 March 2024 can also be located on the Company's website.  Physical copy documents have also been posted to those shareholders who have elected to receive paper communications.

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Enquiries:

James Cropper plc
Matthew Ratcliffe, Company Secretary

+44(0)1539 722002

Shore Capital - (Nominated Adviser and Broker)

Daniel Bush, David Coaten, Henry Willcocks, Lucy Bowden

Tel: +44 (0)207 408 4090

Burson Buchanan - Financial PR

Chris Lane, Charles Ryland, Jamie Hooper, Verity Parker

jamescropper@buchanancomms.co.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 207 466 5000

Notes for editors:

James Cropper is a market leader in Advanced Materials and Paper & Packaging, centred around four market audiences: Energy Solutions, Composite Solutions, Luxury Packaging and Creative Papers.

A purpose-led business, built upon six generations of the Cropper family, James Cropper has a 600+ international workforce and an operational reach in over 50 countries.

Established in 1845, the Group manufactures creative papers, luxury packaging and advanced materials incorporating pioneering non-wovens and electrochemical coatings.

James Cropper is a specialist provider of niche solutions tailored to a unique customer specification, ranging from substrates and components in hydrogen electrolysis and fuel cells to bespoke colours and textures in paper and moulded fibre packaging designed to replace single use plastics.

The Group operates across multiple markets from luxury retail to renewable energy. It is renowned globally for service, capability, pioneering and multi award-winning commitment to the highest standards of sustainability.

James Cropper's goal is to be operationally net zero by 2030 and to reduce carbon through its entire supply chain to net zero by 2050.