Director/PDMR Shareholding

Croda International PLC
13 March 2007


Croda International Plc
 
13 March 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 12 March 2007, that the following transactions took place in relation to the Croda International Plc Share 
Incentive Plan ('SIP') on 12 March 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 6,120 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 12 March 
2007 at a total cost of £38,201.26 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 6,120 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 12 
March 2007 at a total cost of £38,201.26 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 618p 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|20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|S E Foots      |PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|D E Barraclough|PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|K Layden       |PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|G L Myers      |PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|K M Nutbrown   |PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|A L Scott      |PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 
This notification is made in order to satisfy both section 324 of the Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule 3.1.2.
 

Louise Scott
Company Secretary and Legal Counsel
Croda International Plc
 

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