Transaction in Own Shares

Croda International PLC
21 March 2005

                            Croda International PLC

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                             Purchase of own shares

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Croda International PLC ('Croda') announces that it has purchased the following
number of its ordinary shares of £0.10 each on the London Stock Exchange via
Merrill Lynch International.

Ordinary shares:

Date of purchase:                                     21 March 2005
Number of ordinary shares purchased:                  100,000
Highest price paid per share:                         372p
Lowest price paid per share:                          372p
Volume weighted average price per share:              372p

Croda intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the purchase of these shares, Croda holds 2,605,284 of its ordinary
shares in treasury and has 133,663,560 ordinary shares in issue (excluding
treasury shares).


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