Director/PDMR Shareholding

James Halstead PLC
07 January 2008


7th January 2008





                               James Halstead PLC





James Halstead PLC ('the Company') announces that Gordon Oliver, Finance
Director) has today acquired 1,000 ordinary shares in the Company at 525 pence
each. These shares have been transferred to Mr Oliver's wife. Gordon Oliver now
has a notifiable interest in 54,746 ordinary shares in the Company representing
a holding of 0.11%.





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