Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 5406O

Croda International PLC

11 October 2012

 



Croda International Plc

11 October 2012

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 October 2012, that the following transactions took place in relation to the Croda International Plc Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") on 10 October 2012. 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 IRG Trustees Limited) acquired 2,911 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 10 October 2012 at a total cost of £65,555.655 and allocated them to employees participating in the SIP as partnership shares.
2.	The SIP trustee (Capita IRG Trustees Limited) also acquired 2,911 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 10 October 2012 at a total cost of £65,555.655 and allocated them to employees participating in the SIP as matching shares.
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 2233p per ordinary share, and were allocated for no consideration the number of matching shares set out against their names below.
4.	In addition, some of the persons named in the table below opted to reinvest their dividend payment in the SIP.  The SIP trustee (Capita IRG Trustees Limited) therefore also acquired 55 ordinary shares by purchase in the market at a price of 2233p on 10 October 2012 at a total cost of £1,238.66 on their behalf:

Name	Role	Number of ordinary shares purchased	Number of matching shares allocated	Number of ordinary shares purchased via dividend reinvestment
S E Foots	Executive Director	6	6	N/A
M S Christie	Executive Director	6	6	N/A
K Layden	Executive Director	6	6	N/A
S Arnott	PDMR	6	6	N/A
D E Barraclough	PDMR	6	6	N/A
S E Breene	PDMR	6	6	N/A
N I Challoner	PDMR	6	6	29
M W Heijbroek	PDMR	6	6	N/A
G L Myers	PDMR	6	6	N/A
A L Scott	PDMR	6	6	26

This notification is made in order to satisfy both section 793 of the Companies Act 2006 and Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.2.

Louise Scott

Company Secretary and Legal Counsel

Croda International Plc

 

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