Director/PDMR Shareholding

Croda International PLC
10 October 2005


Croda International Plc


Croda announces that Abbey National AESOP Trustees Limited acquired on 10
October 2005, 8,269 ordinary shares in the company for the purposes of the Croda
International Plc Share Incentive Plan at a price of 426p per share.  These
shares will be used to satisfy employees' contributions to the Plan deducted
from their September 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                       29                     29                   1,328                  1,328
B M Richmond                     29                     29                   1,328                  1,328
J R Ainger                       29                     29                   1,328                  1,328
D E Barraclough                  29                     29                   1,328                  1,328
K R Gregersen                    29                     29                   1,328                  1,328
K Layden                         29                     29                   1,328                  1,328
K M Nutbrown                     29                     29                   1,328                  1,328


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