Director/PDMR Shareholding

Croda International PLC
13 September 2005

Croda International Plc



Croda announces that Abbey National AESOP Trustees Limited acquired on 12
September 2005, 8,298 ordinary shares in the company for the purposes of the
Croda International Plc Share Incentive Plan at a price of 425p per share.
These shares will be used to satisfy employees' contributions to the Plan
deducted from their August 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 Shares      Matching Shares       Partnership Shares      Matching Shares


M Humphrey                       30                     30                   1,299                  1,299
B M Richmond                     30                     30                   1,299                  1,299
J R Ainger                       30                     30                   1,299                  1,299
D E Barraclough                  30                     30                   1,299                  1,299
K R Gregersen                    30                     30                   1,299                  1,299
K Layden                         30                     30                   1,299                  1,299
K M Nutbrown                     30                     30                   1,299                  1,299






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