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• Appointment of Non-Executive Director

  24 March 2023: We are pleased to announce the appointment of Non-Executive Director, Chris Good

• Appointment of Non-Executive Director

  25 June 2024: We are pleased to announce the appointment of Ian Bull as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 25 June 2024.

• Appointment of Non-Executive Director

  7 January 2022: We are pleased to announce the appointment of Non-Executive Director, Nawal Ouzren

• Completed divestment – transitioning to a pure-play Consumer Care and Life Sciences company

  Accelerating our transition to a pure-play Consumer Care and Life Sciences company, completion of the divestment of the majority of our Performance Technologies and Industrial Chemicals businesses to a wholly owned subsidiary of Cargill.

• Croda announces registered name for its innovative non-animal keratin for hair repair.

  14 July 2025: Croda International Plc today announce registered name for its innovative non-animal keratin for hair repair.

• Croda donates solar panel modules to non-profit organisations

  We have donated 1,000 SunPower solar panels to three non-profit organizations for use in low-income housing and crop generation.

• Croda supports Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

  Avanti, a company we acquired in 2020, has a strong track record in supplying R&D quantities of lipid-based drug delivery technologies to pharmaceutical companies including those developing mRNA drugs.

• Appointment of Non -Executive Director

  We are pleased to announce the appointment of Julie Kim as non-executive director.

• Appointment of Non-Executive Director, Jill Anderson

  9 January2026: We are pleased to announce the appointment of Jill Anderson as Non-Executive Director.

• Celebrating our innovative ingredients: Zenakine™ - redefining neurocosmetic skincare possibilities

  8 September 2025: Croda International Plc (“Croda”), the company that uses smart science to create high-performance ingredients and solutions that improve lives, has recently launched Zenakine™, a biotech-based neuroactive ingredient designed to counteract the effects of stress on the skin.

• Transition to bio-based MPG

  Transitioning our raw materials to bio-based sources will enable us to make a significant positive impact.

• 1.5°C science-based target validation

  In July 2021 we became only the third major chemical company globally to have a 1.5ºC science-based target validated.

• Bringing anti-ageing benefits to make-up

  Developed through one of our Smart Partnerships, Majestem® Drypure™ from our beauty actives business, Sederma, brings anti-ageing and environmental protection benefits to make-up.

• Sustainability-linked revolving credit facility

  In 2019, we became one of the UK’s first large public companies to include a sustainability metric in a revolving credit facility (RCF), with targets in the seven-year agreement aligned with our 2030 Commitment to become Climate Positive.

• Non-financial performance and reports

  We consider our non-financial metrics to be as important as our financial.

• Life Sciences

  We provide high-quality healthcare solutions, protect crops, and enhance seeds, supporting global health and crop sustainability. Our growing range of technologies ensures we deliver high value to customers worldwide.

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• Exclusive license for Croda to commercialise SSI’s CAF® vaccine adjuvants

  3 March 2022: Croda International Plc, announces today that it has entered a strategic collaboration with Statens Serum Institut (“SSI”), the leading Danish Governmental life-science research institute.

• Croda joins the World Business Council for Sustainable Development

  Croda International Plc, the company that uses smart science to create high-performance ingredients and solutions that improve lives, has today joined over 200 of the world’s leading sustainable companies as the newest member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

• Croda joins KTN SME accelerator programme

  Supporting UK-based SMEs and start-ups to bring their technology closer to market through the KTN accelerator programme

• Sustainability expert Aris Vrettos joins Croda

  The new position will see the sustainability expert challenge Croda to stretch its already industry-leading sustainability ambitions and commitments and support Croda’s business sectors in further enhancing their sustainability strategies by working in partnership with their customers and suppliers.

• Directorate change

  John Ramsay, having served as a non-executive director and Chair of Audit Committee for over 5 years, will retire from the Board on 1 March 2025 and will be replaced by Ian Bull.

• Appointment of Chairman Designate

  Croda announces announces that it has appointed Anita Frew as a Non-Executive Director and Chairman Designate.

• Appointment of Chair Designate

  22 September 2023: We are pleased to announce the appointment of Danuta Gray as a Non-Executive Director and Chair Designate

• Reinventing Surfactants for Sustainability

  Our 100 percent bio-based, 100 percent renewable, ECO range of surfactants are now available

• Xampla and Croda / Incotec to work on biodegradable seed coatings

  2 February 2022: Xampla and Croda/Incotec next generation, biodegradable, microplastic-free seed coatings

• New Global Distribution Hub

  Plans invest more than £7m in a new state-of-the-art warehouse

• Leading Work on Palm Oil Recognised by CDP

  Croda, who create, make and sell innovative, sustainable, high performance speciality chemicals that are relied on by industries and consumers everywhere, has been awarded an A- by CDP for their leadership on managing their palm oil supply chain.

• Croda Supports Hand Sanitiser Manufacture and Vaccine Development During Covid19 Outbreak

  We are supporting the manufacturer of hand sanitiser during the outbreak of Covid-19 through the supply of additional glycerine to our customers in Western Europe, free of charge.

• Commitment to a Deforestation free Supply Chain Recognised by CDP

  Awarded an ‘A-‘ for our CDP Forestry Disclosure highlighting our commitment to a deforestation-free supply chain

• Croda announces director retirement

  3 March 2025: Croda International Plc announces that Julie Kim will retire from the Board on 26 July 2025, having served four years as a non-executive director, in order to focus on her executive commitments.

• Celebrating Employees Across the Croda World

  Croda are today celebrating their employees around the world as they help to continue business as usual during the Covid-19 outbreak.

• Croda Pharma wins prestigious award

  6 May 2022: Croda Pharma was awarded ''Best Supplier for COVID-19 Vaccine Development” at the India Biologics & Vaccines Outstanding Industry Awards (BVOIA) 2022.

• Croda breaks ground on new manufacturing facility for pharmaceutical excipients

  5 June 2023: Croda is investing in the new 23,680 square-foot facility to manufacture ingredients for drug delivery systems used in novel therapeutic drugs.

• Ceremonial Groundbreaking of Sustainable Plant

  Croda Hosts a Ceremonial Groundbreaking for First North American Plant that Will Enable Production of 100-Percent Sustainable Non-ionic Surfactants.

• Continued Investment in Innovation Partnerships

  Sponsored PhD students present their cutting-edge research plans and findings at our global headquarters

• Croda announces Global Technical Centre in Hyderabad

  5 June 2023: Croda is investing in the new 23,680 square-foot facility to manufacture ingredients for drug delivery systems used in novel therapeutic drugs.

• Croda crowned Britain’s Most Admired Chemicals Company for eighth year running

  15 January 2025: the company that uses smart science to create high-performance ingredients and solutions that improve lives, has been voted Britain’s Most Admired Chemicals Company for the eighth consecutive year.

• Centre of Innovation for Marine Biotechnology

  Nautilus Biosciences officially opens its expanded UPEI-based facility as a Centre of Innovation for Marine Biotechnology

• Commitment to Science Based Targets

  We are proud to be one of around 600 companies taking science-based climate action, by committing to Science Based Targets

• Croda Brings Another First to USA

  Starting production to make a 100 percent bio-based ECO range of surfactants

• Croda announces brand evolution to mark centenary year

  6 January 2025: Croda International Plc (“Croda”), the company that uses smart science to create high-performance ingredients and solutions that improve lives, today announces a brand evolution to mark its centenary year.

• Winners of the ICIS Surfactants Sustainability Awards

  Awarded the ICIS Surfactants Award for Sustainability for our new pioneering bio-ethylene oxide plant.

• Sederma recognised with Green Award at in cosmetics

  Sederma has just been awarded with the Silver Green Award 2016 at this year’s in-cosmetics show for its product Majestem™, an active ingredient obtained by the elicited plant cell culture of Leontopodium alpinum, better known as Edelweiss, through an exclusive technology developed inhouse.

• Croda Celebrates Innovation Award Succes

  Croda is named as one of three companies to win Beiersdorf Innovation Pitch at this year's in-cosmetics.

• First Major Milestone in Renewable Manufacturing

  With the steel work that will house the main process reactor in place at its Atlas Point manufacturing site in New Castle, Delaware, Croda International Plc, who make specialty chemical ingredients that enhance everyday consumer and industrial products, came a step closer to completing the first plant of this type in North America that will manufacture 100% renewable non-ionic surfactants.

• Award Winning Sustainability Initiatives

  Croda recently won the Low Carbon Award at the UK's Chemical Industry Awards. A key part of Croda's carbon reduction story is our increase in the proportion of energy from non-fossil fuel sources.

• Bio based Industry Story of the Year Winner

  Croda have been awarded the 2019 Bio-Based World News Innovation Award for “Bio-based Industry Story of the Year”

• Sederma Awarded 25 Years of Innovation Award

  This 25th edition of in-cosmetics will be a memorable one for Sederma. Matrixyl was awarded the 25 Years of Innovation Award which recognises the product that has had the greatest impact on the Personal Care ingredients market in the last quarter-century.

• Beyond boundaries: Life cycle assessment

  Croda has developed a groundbreaking new ‘cradle-to-grave’ life cycle assessment (LCA) tool that can determine a chemical product’s total environmental impact.

• Croda opens new manufacturing facility in Dahej, India to support growth and sustainable innovation

  Croda inaugurates a new greenfield manufacturing facility in Dahej, India, expanding its capacity to deliver high-performance, science-driven solutions to fast-growing Asian markets.

• CrodaTherm helps COVID19 nurses in The Netherlands

  CrodaTherm™ helps reduce heat strain experienced by COVID-19 nurses in The Netherlands

• Croda supports Kayapo indigenous people during COVID19

  We are continuing to support local communities during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing soap bars to indigenous communities in Brazil

• Sustainability without compromise ChromaPur

  Small, manufactured plastic particles, known as microbeads, are used in a wide range of cosmetic and personal care products, with research suggesting that 87% of products from the ten best-selling cosmetics brands contain these microplastics.

• Leveraging Group-wide capabilities to accelerate the development of natural active ingredients

  The move in cosmetics towards replacing synthetic ingredients with sustainable alternatives is increasing demand for naturally sourced actives.

• Croda and Anome Collaboration Promises a Positive Difference in Beauty Effects

  We are very proud to announce a new collaborative partnership with Anomera, an award-winning innovator in green chemistry, materials science and sustainable manufacturing.

• International chemicals leader Croda expands presence at Techspace One

  Croda has expanded its presence at Sci-Tech Daresbury in line with plans to scale up its biotechnology capability.

• Contract for innovative delivery system for COVID19 vaccine

  We have recently entered into an agreement with Pfizer Inc. to supply novel excipients used in the manufacture of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

• Croda invests in biopharma innovation with expanded Super Refined™ facility in Leek, UK

  25 September 2025: Croda International Plc (“Croda”), the company that uses smart science to create high-performance ingredients and solutions that improve lives, continues to invest in the evolving world of biopharmaceutical manufacturing where consistency and purity in ingredients are critical.

• Croda Executive Committee walk Yorkshire Three Peaks

  Our Executive Committee has pledged to raise vital funds to support COVID-19 relief in India.

• Strong strategic delivery built on resilient financial performance

  Croda 2020 full-year results, strong strategic delivery built on resilient financial performance

• Supporting local school children during lockdown

  We are supporting school children in the UK by gifting our pre-owned laptops and tablets to pupils having lessons at home

• Investing in mRNA and gene therapy

  As the core of our lipid systems capability within the Health Care business, Avanti is primarily focused on developing innovative lipid-based products of unparalleled purity to address specific medical challenges that are not resolved by current technology.

• Navigating the future of innovative ingredients

  As Croda celebrates 100 years of delivering Smart science to improve lives™, we’re also looking ahead. This Vision Report is a forward-looking guide to the trends that will reshape the speciality ingredients industry across the next quarter-century.

• 100 years of smart science: Celebrating Croda's centenary across the globe

  Join us as we celebrate Croda’s 100-year journey from a small family firm in Yorkshire to a global leader in sustainable innovation. Discover the science, stories, and people behind a century of improving lives.

• Acts of kindness

  The Croda Acts of Kindness programme gave employees the opportunity to nominate local causes and charities to support during COVID-19, with each major site given £10,000.

• Flue2Chem

  In another example of industry-wide collaboration to help tackle the climate emergency, the Flue2Chem Innovate UK project aims to demonstrate that a UK supply chain to produce alkoxylated surfacants from CO2 is economically and technically feasible.

• Human Performance programme

  Our behavioural safety improvement programmes were standardised into a Group-wide Behavioural Safety Observation programme, implemented across all manufacturing sites since 2015.

• Improving the customer experience in China

  Our .CN website transformation, which was launched in 2020, has created an entirely new online experience for customers in fast-growing Chinese markets.

• Supplying delivery systems to help prevent cardiovascular disease

  Nucleic acid-based therapies are the next big blockbuster drug class opening up exciting applications such as gene editing, where a patient’s genetic material can be modified to correct a disorder.

• Site visit to Sederma Beauty Actives business in France

  17-18 March 2016: Croda International plc hosted a Capital Markets Event for analysts and investors at its Sederma facility near Versailles, France.

• Analyst consensus

  Consensus collated from estimates submitted by side-sell analysts on Croda International Plc.

• Our Board activity in 2025

  An update from Croda’s 2025 Annual Report on Board governance and culture, highlighting leadership, accountability and the values guiding long-term sustainable growth.

• Life Sciences business review - rebalancing Pharma and driving differentiation in Agriculture

  Discover how Life Sciences is rebalancing Pharma and driving differentiation in Agriculture. Exploring innovation, market trends, and strategic growth driving performance in this year’s annual report business review.

• Life Sciences sustainability review

  Sustainability is embedded in our business strategy, shaping innovation and meeting customer expectations. In Life Sciences, it drives impact, performance and long-term value.

• 100 years of smart science: Celebrating Croda's centenary at our headquarters

  Join us as we celebrate Croda’s 100-year journey from a small family firm in Yorkshire to a global leader in sustainable innovation. Discover the science, stories, and people behind a century of improving lives.

• Why invest in Croda?

  Discover why investing in Croda offers long-term growth, innovation-led performance, and sustainable value across global specialty chemicals markets.

• 2025 Annual Report

  Croda’s 2025 Annual Report allows you to explore our financial performance, strategic progress, sustainability highlights, and innovation driving long-term growth.

• Our business model

  Our business model is designed to create long-term, sustainable value.

• Launch of first report on biotechnology opportunities in the personal care market

  27 September 2022: The “Biotechnology: personal care market report” is the first in a series from Croda which aim to help other forward-thinking companies leverage the opportunities offered by biotechnology.

• Our Purpose

  At Croda, our purpose is to use Smart science to improve lives™ through a values-led culture that shapes our work and partnerships. Our knowledge, passion, and entrepreneurial spirit drive the creation of specialty ingredients trusted by industries and consumers worldwide.

• A day in the life of our IT team

  Welcome to a behind-the-scenes look at the world of Information Technology (IT) at Croda.

• Our markets

  We develop and supply innovative high-value ingredients that are typically included at low inclusion levels and offer critical functionality to our customers formulations. We are united by our Purpose of using Smart science to improve lives™, with our ingredients delivering a positive impact in all our markets.

• Our heritage

  Founded in 1925, we continue to build on our heritage every day, with sustainability always central to our thinking, turning exciting and often ground-breaking ideas into practical solutions for our customers.

• Croda named Britain’s Most Admired Chemicals Company for the tenth time, extending an exceptional record of sustained peer recognition

  20 January 2026: Croda International Plc has been named Britain’s Most Admired Chemicals Company for the tenth time, highlighting its leadership in smart science and high-performance ingredients.

• Croda at a glance

  At Croda, we are driven by our Purpose, to use smart science to create high-performance ingredients and technologies that improve lives.

• Acquisition of global vaccine adjuvant specialist

  Vaccine adjuvants are a natural extension to Croda’s market leading, high-purity excipient delivery systems in its Health Care business., these adjuvants represent a niche, high-growth market.

• Croda acquires research enterprise Enza Biotech

  Developing the next generation of renewable surfactants using carbohydrate-based chemistry.

• Behind the Science

  Discover how Croda’s high-quality ingredients, scientific expertise and sustainable innovation deliver end-to-end solutions that power growth across Consumer Care and Life Sciences.

• Meet the expert: Will Small, Research & Technology Specialist

  Will shares how high-purity and super refined excipients help improve consistency and stability, and how they’re being leveraged in new active formulations to drive innovation and growth.

• Your ingredients partner powering health innovation

  Explore how Croda’s smart science, people and high-performance ingredients are shaping the future of Life Sciences and enabling safer, more sustainable innovation.

• Acquisition of global vaccine adjuvant specialist

  Vaccine adjuvants are a natural extension to Croda’s market leading, high-purity excipient delivery systems in its Health Care business., these adjuvants represent a niche, high-growth market.

• Sustainability Committee

  Responsible for global Group-wide engagement with our sustainability targets and providing guidance and support to sites, regions and sectors to develop plans to deliver our sustainability goals.

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