Director/PDMR Shareholding

Croda International PLC
11 July 2007


                                    Croda International Plc

11 July 2007

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS

In accordance with Disclosure Rule 3.1.4R(1), I hereby inform you that Croda International Plc ('the Company') was 
notified on 11 July 2007, that the following transactions took place in relation to the Croda International Plc Share 
Incentive Plan ('SIP') on 10 June 2007. The SIP is an all-employee trust arrangement approved by HM Revenue and Customs,
under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the Company of 10p each, using deductions from salary in each 
monthly pay period, and receive allocations of matching free ordinary shares ('matching shares').

1. The SIP trustee (Capita AESOP Trustees Limited) acquired 5,626 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 10 July 
2007 at a total cost of £38,811.30 and allocated them to employees participating in the SIP as partnership shares.  
Michael Humphrey and Michael Sean Christie, as executive directors, were deemed to become interested in these shares on 
acquisition, and to cease to be interested in them on allocation.

2. The SIP trustee (Capita AESOP Trustees Limited) also acquired 5,626 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 10 
July 2007 at a total cost of £38,811.30 and allocated them to employees participating in the SIP as matching shares. 
Michael Humphrey and Michael Sean Christie, as executive directors, were deemed to become interested in these shares on 
acquisition, and to cease to be interested in them on allocation.

3. The following directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities purchased the number of ordinary shares 
of 10p set out against their names below, at a price of 683p per ordinary share, and were allocated for no consideration
the number of matching shares set out against their names below:

Name              Role                 Number of ordinary shares purchased   Number of matching shares allocated

M Humphrey        Executive Director                                    18                                    18
M S Christie      Executive Director                                    18                                    18
S E Foots         PDMR                                                  18                                    18
D E Barraclough   PDMR                                                  18                                    18
K Layden          PDMR                                                  18                                    18
G L Myers         PDMR                                                  18                                    18
K M Nutbrown      PDMR                                                  18                                    18
A L Scott         PDMR                                                  18                                    18

This notification is made in order to satisfy both section 324 of the Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure and 
Transparency Rule 3.1.2.



Louise Scott
Company Secretary and Legal Counsel
Croda International Plc








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