
Investor Overview
Croda is a successful global company with 105 operations across 39 countries, a focused Life Sciences and Consumer Care company.
Key metrics
Sales: £1,889.6m (2020: £1,390.3m)Sales growth (constant currency): +43.2% (2020: +1.1%)
IFRS profit before tax (PBT): £411.5m (2020: £269.5m)
Ordinary dividend (proposed full year): +9.9% (2020: +1.1%)
NPP % Group sales (constant currency): 36.6% (2020: 27.4%)
Croda 2021 non-financial data performance summary
2021 Annual Report

Recent highlights
Reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions intensity since 2020
27.0%Hectares of land saved above our 2019 baseline
33,734.0Organic raw materials from bio-based sources
69.0%People protected through use of our sun protection ingredients
55.0million people
Our business continues to grow and strengthen through our:
Purpose-led people and culture: Using Smart science to improve lives™, aligned with our ambitious commitment to be the most sustainable supplier of innovative ingredients.
Structure and focus on fast-growing sectors: Consumer focused business, investing in growing and harnessing technology and know-how within these fast growth areas. Strongly positioned in high-growth niches and well aligned with growing consumer demand for sustainability.
Dynamic innovation engine: Open approach to innovation with 500 partners working on over 100 projects increasingly focused on sustainability.
Sustainability focus: meeting the growing consumer and customer need for sustainable, high performance ingredients.

We have a...
Highly differentiated approach: Flexible, local manufacturing providing resilience, and direct selling to customers.
High-quality business with superior financial performance: Highly cash-generative operations with world-class profit margins.
Strong balance sheet: Clear capital allocation policy prioritising disciplined investment in growth.
Reputation for attractive shareholder returns: Track record of creating shareholder value through high returns on capital and 29 years of consecutive dividend progression.

Case study: Customer driven
Sustainability makes strong commercial sense for our customers. As consumers become more educated about the impact of their behaviour on the wider environment, they are looking to make choices in the products that they buy so that they can make a positive contribution to living more sustainably.
Consumer requirements differ country-by country and whilst emerging markets are recovering more slowly from COVID-19, they are increasingly setting new trends. They offer higher growth rates over the medium term, particularly in Asia where China’s personal care market is growing 9% a year.
We tailor our offering to those differing needs by listening to our customers wherever they are. Almost all customers have experienced huge growth in digital sales during the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerating trends we were already seeing in our markets. Digital is a huge disruptor and our digital strategy focuses on R&D and production as well as sales & marketing, helping us bring innovation to market faster and in a more targeted way.


Sustainability
Sustainability spans every area of our business and is a crucial way we add value to our customers.
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Through our product portfolio we have access to the broadest range of formulation ingredients and formulation know-how, which allows our customers to get the best performance out of their products.
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Developing and delivering innovative, sustainable ingredients is at the heart of our business.
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