Director/PDMR Shareholding

Croda International PLC
11 April 2006


Croda International Plc

Croda announces that Abbey National AESOP Trustees Limited acquired on 10 April
2006, 7,719 ordinary shares in the company for the purpose of the Croda
International Plc Share Incentive Plan at a price of 482.5p per share. These
shares will be used to satisfy employees' contributions to the Plan deducted
from their March pay. The directors and persons discharging managerial
responsibility, as contributors to the plan, have acquired the following
interest in the shares:-

 
                                                  Total Shares held in Plan   
                  Partnership    Matching Shares   Partnership    Matching 
                     Shares                          Shares        Shares
                  
M Humphrey             26              26           1,488           1,488  
D E Barraclough        26              26           1,488           1,488  
K Layden               26              26           1,488           1,488  
K M Nutbrown           26              26           1,488           1,488  


 



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