Director/PDMR Shareholding

Latham(James) PLC
30 January 2008





James Latham plc ('the Company') announces that on 24 January 2008 the Trustees
of the Company's SIPS Scheme allocated 352 ordinary 25p shares in the Company at
205 pence per share to the following Directors (together with total interests in
Company's shares):


Director                SIPS Scheme                 Current      Percentage of 
                         allocation            shareholding      the Company's                                  
                                                                        shares
P D L Latham                     90               1,055,639              5.24%
D A Dunmow                       91                  51,118              0.25%
C D Sutton                       40                   8,305              0.04%
PAJ Latham                       40                 410,125              2.03%
N Latham                         91                 556,282              2.76%





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