Director/PDMR Shareholding

Croda International PLC
10 August 2005

Croda International Plc

Croda announces that Abbey National AESOP Trustees Limited acquired on 10 August
2005, 8,383 ordinary shares in the company for the purposes of the Croda
International Plc Share Incentive Plan at a price of 408p per share.  These
shares will be used to satisfy employees' contributions to the Plan deducted
from their July 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                       30                     30                   1,269                  1,269
B M Richmond                     30                     30                   1,269                  1,269
J R Ainger                       30                     30                   1,269                  1,269
D E Barraclough                  30                     30                   1,269                  1,269
K R Gregersen                    30                     30                   1,269                  1,269
K Layden                         30                     30                   1,269                  1,269
K M Nutbrown                     30                     30                   1,269                  1,269



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