30 January 2025
James Cropper
plc
("James
Cropper", the "Company" or the "Group")
Confirmation of Chief Executive Officer Succession
James Cropper plc (AIM: CRPR), the
Advanced Materials and Paper & Packaging group,
confirms that, as previously announced, David
Stirling will be appointed to the Board as Chief Executive Officer
with effect from 3 February 2025.
Following the Company's announcement
on 29 October 2024, David Stirling joined the Company as Chief
Executive Officer Designate on 2 January 2025. His
appointment to the Board and as Chief Executive Officer follows a
smooth handover of responsibilities from Steve Adams who on 3
February 2025 will step down as Chief Executive Officer and from
the Board. Steve will remain with the Company to provide
support until his retirement at the end of March 2025.
-ENDS-
Enquiries:
James Cropper plc
Mark
Cropper, Non-Executive Chair
Tel: +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.
