Director/PDMR Shareholding

Croda International PLC
12 December 2006


                                Croda International Plc
 
12 December 2006
 
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 December 2006, that the
following transactions took place in relation to the Croda International Plc 
Share Incentive Plan ('SIP') on 11 December 2006. 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 (Abbey National AESOP Trustees Limited) acquired 6,319
ordinary shares by purchase in the market on  11 December 2006 at a total cost
of £38,039.80 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 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 596p 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|21                                 |21                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|S E Foots      |PDMR              |21                                 |21                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|D E Barraclough|PDMR              |21                                 |21                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|K Layden       |PDMR              |21                                 |21                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|G L Myers      |PDMR              |21                                 |21                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|K M Nutbrown   |PDMR              |21                                 |21                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|A L Scott      |PDMR              |21                                 |21                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 

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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