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• Ranked first in Barrons most sustainable international company listing

  We have recently been ranked first in the Most Sustainable International Company rankings by Barron’s.

• Validation of our 1.5°C Science Based Targets

  We have become one of only three major chemical companies in the world to have our 1.5°C Science Based Targets validated.

• Latin America

  In Latin America, we have a manufacturing site in Campinas, Brazil and six other sales offices within the region.

• Where we operate

  Every day our global team, across 37 countries, work together to inspire our customers.

• Focusing on D&I in Asia

  Colleagues in Asia have been leading a programme of raising awareness, building an inclusive culture, and driving inclusivity in recruitment.

• 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.

• ASD Kaleka Mosaik Initiative Impact Fund

  We are contributing to the first Impact Fund of ASD, developed in partnership with Tides Foundation.

• Sustainable ways of working in R&D

  We are focused on aligning the work of our global R&D teams with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• Externally validated avoided emissions

  The emissions savings of this new product were revealed during its sustainability assessment, part of the new way of working for our innovation teams to support our Commitment.

• Supporting Invisible Disabilities Week at Croda

  Learn how Croda supports Invisible Disabilities Week, promoting awareness and inclusivity for employees with hidden disabilities. Discover personal stories, like Sana Bell’s, and our commitment to creating a supportive workplace for everyone to thrive.

• 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.

• Making every minute count

  Take a look at how employees across the Croda Group have spent their 1% Club time helping their communities.

• International Day of Women and Girls in Science

  At Croda, we recognise that by championing gender equality in STEM, we can adopt a future where talent determines success; while promoting inclusivity, and empowering the next generation of female scientists, engineers, and innovators.

• Life at Croda

  Celebrate the amazing people who make Croda International unique. Dive into inspiring stories, innovative projects, and the value of Together that drives our mission Smart science to improve lives™.

• Record performance driven by accelerated strategic implementation

  Croda International results for the six months ended 30 June 2021

• Strategic review of Performance Technologies and Industrial Chemicals businesses

  The core objective will be to establish what ownership structure best serves this part of Croda’s business going forward, to create a stronger platform for its future growth.

• Strong strategic delivery built on resilient financial performance

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

• Appointment of Non-Executive Director, Jill Anderson

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

• Sentient Science and Croda partner for wind asset life extension

  Croda announce a new partnership with Sentient Science for the recommended use of Croda’s Rewitec additives

• Construction underway on our new North American Headquarters and innovation centre

  The sustainable facility will bring together commercial and technical teams from across our business areas

• 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

• Croda urges G20 leaders to keep Paris Agreement within reach

  Croda is signatory to an open letter to all G20 leaders, urging them to keep the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal within reach.

• Signatory to the if not now then when campaign

  We have joined over 70 major UK businesses in becoming a signatory to the Black inclusion business campaign.

• 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.

• Croda Foundation

  We have taken a big step towards achieving our ambition of expanding the reach of our smart science to permanently improve more lives by funding the Croda Foundation.

• Collaboration to deliver new vaccine adjuvants

  In 2021 we established a strategic collaboration with the Danish government’s life science research institute, Statens Serum Institute (SSI).

• Responsible business

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• Agroforestry in the Amazon

  The Croda Foundation is supporting an Instituto Amazonas agroforestry project, which aims to revive traditional agriculture practices among indigenous tribes, improving food security and protecting their cultural heritage and environment.

• 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.

• Supporting the next generation of therapeutic vaccines

  Vaccine adjuvants are used to enhance immune response to an antigen, improving the overall efficacy of the vaccine and increasing protection against the target disease.

• 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.

• Collaboration to develop alternative vaccine adjuvants

  In 2021 we established a strategic collaboration with the Danish Government’s life science research institute, Statens Serum Institute (SSI).

• Investors

  Investor information including financial reporting and events.

• Investor seminar on our Life Sciences sector

  7 October 2019: Senior members of our management team provided a comprehensive overview of the Life Sciences sector, with a particular focus on our Health Care business.

• Acquisitions

  Commercialising and increasing our access to new ideas and technologies.

• Regulatory news

  Our most recent announcements to the stock exchange.

• About us

  We are the name behind high performance ingredients and technologies in some of the most successful brands in the world.

• Consumer Care business review

  Discover how Consumer Care is reinvigorating Beauty and enabling continued growth in Fragrances & Flavours. Exploring innovation, market trends, and strategic growth driving performance in this year’s annual report business review.

• Annual Report

  Find our 2023 Annual Report here

• Sustainability Impact Report

  Find our 2023 Sustainability Impact Report here

• Our business model

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

• Investor overview

  Croda is a successful global company with 105 operations across 39 countries, a focused Life Sciences and Consumer Care company.

• Share price

  Detailed share charts.

• Our centenary

  2025 is Croda’s centenary year which provides an excellent opportunity to celebrate our rich history and reflect on the strong foundations it gives us for future success.

• Shareholder centre

  Useful information for Croda Shareholders.

• Shareholder information

  Keep up to date with shareholder and investor information.

• 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.

• Types of careers at Croda

  Learn more about the types of careers available at Croda.

• Working with Croda

  Learn more about working with Croda.

• Celebrating a century of Croda

  Croda marks 100 years with global celebrations highlighting our people, history, and commitment to our Purpose: Smart science to improve lives™.

• Driving innovation in the Agriculture market

  Through Croda’s acquisition of the Incotec Seed Enhancement business in 2015 and the Plant Impact Biostimulants business in 2018, we are well placed to address some of the challenges in the adoption of biologics.

• CroBioticTM 100

  Surveys indicate that malodour of garments is one of the biggest reasons that consumers choose to wash them.

• Customer award for carbon reduction

  We’ve been working in partnership with Syngenta to deliver innovative and sustainable ingredients in a way that meets their commercial and sustainability goals.

• 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.

• Biodegradable fragrance encapsulation

  Fragrance encapsulation involves advanced delivery systems that allow the timed release of fragrances, critical in various applications such as laundry, fabric softeners and deodorants.

• 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.

• Investing in organic expansion in Agriculture

  Atlox 4913TM is valued by customers for creating stable dispersions in complex crop formulations, ensuring consistent distribution of actives and preventing formulation breakdown.

• Symiro™ biostimulant

  As the challenge to feed our growing global population continues, increasing crop growth and yields is becoming an important area of focus to meet the rising demand for food.

• Most Admired Company in the British Chemical Sector for the Fourth Year Running

  Voted Britain’s Most Admired Chemicals Company for the fourth year running, as well as being named Britain’s fifth Most Admired Company overall.

• Crodarom expands its Chanac France site

  Crodarom, producer of botanical extracts, is launching its first investment program to expands its Chanac production site location in France.

• Task force for more sustainable polymers

  Helping create a more sustainable future as founder members of the Polymers in Liquid Formulations task force.

• Croda calls on the UK Government to deliver a clean and just recovery plan

  We are proud to be one of 200 UK businesses that have called on the UK Government to deliver a ‘clean and just’ recovery plan

• Alganelle Sederma partnership

  A partnership to create a cosmetic active ingredient of the future

• Croda becomes founding member of sustainability Business Transformation Group

  We are proud to be a founding member of the CISL Business Transformation Group.

• 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 joins the Together for Sustainability initiative

  Croda becomes the 30th member of TfS

• 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

• Key Performance Indicators

  Explore Croda’s key performance indicators for 2025, highlighting progress across financial performance, sustainability and strategic priorities.

• Danuta Gray, Chair's Letter 2024

  The Board and shareholders are aligned that the Company’s priorities should be execution and operational delivery to grow earnings and improve returns on invested capital.

• Steve Foots, Group Chief Executive Letter

  We are focused on delivery and modernisation, ensuring rigorous cost discipline and driving operational efficiencies to continue our long record of strong performance.

• Media hub

  Explore the latest news, blogs, and media from Croda on our innovative ingredients, sustainability achievements, and global collaborations.

• Launching futures

  Embarking on excellence with our transformative graduate scheme

• Supporting Mental Health at Croda

  Employers can do more to create a happy, healthy workforce by putting mental health at the forefront; hear how we are supporting mental health at Croda.

• Contact media enquiries

  For enquiries, contact media.enquiries@croda.com

• Diversity and inclusion

  In 2021 we defined a D&I roadmap identifying actions, regarding diversity and inclusion, in five key areas.

• Customer driven

  We are listening more closely to our customers than ever before; understanding the things that are of most importance to our customers and how we are performing against them.

• Advancing the efficacy and impact of vaccines

  The acquisition of Biosector in 2018 strengthened our pharmaceutical offering, taking us into the field of vaccine adjuvants.

• 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.

• Abiotic stress mitigation in onions

  Changing climates mean higher temperatures, periods of drought and higher salinity are becoming an increasing problem for farmers.

• 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.

• Digitalisation in manufacturing

  We can see the potential of big data, robotics, analytics and the Internet of Things to drive manufacturing excellence and contribute to our right first time agenda.

• Net zero roadmap for UK manufacturing site

  We became one of the first UK manufacturing sites to develop a 2050 net zero roadmap as part of the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ‘Industry of the Future’ programme.

• Advocating for Access and Benefit Sharing and biodiversity conservation

  We supported the launch of the third edition of the Brogota Project through the United Nations Biodiversity Conference COP15 side event.

• Improving performance by humanising safety

  Involvement and engagement have increased, and longstanding infrastructure and operational issues are being addressed following a pilot Human Performance Programme at our site in Thane, India.

• Transition to bio-based MPG

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

• Life cycle assesment

  Supporting our customers to realise the benefits of LCA meant that in 2022 we began developing our LCA Centre of Excellence, supporting sectors in examining the risks and benefits of their portfolios.

• Uni of Cambridge case study

  Working with technology designers NiTech Solutions and The University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing, we created a new process to manufacture more sustainable surfactants. Traditionally, industrial production of surfactants often occurs in large batch reactors, which have low energy efficiency and a long reaction time.

• Leveraging expertise in UV filters for Asian markets

  There are over three million cases of skin cancer globally each year, responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Our range of sunscreens meets a clear need and is an important pillar of our sustainability Commitment to be People Positive by 2030.

• 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.

• Reforestation

  Revitalising ecosystems, improving biodiversity and creating social and economic benefits for local communities.

• 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.

• Coltide Radiance sustainability in use

  In October we were delighted that our sustainability leadership was recognised as we won Business of the Year at the World Sustainability Awards.

• Waste management

  Iberchem, our global fragrance and flavours business based in Spain, has championed waste management best practices through robust policies and employee education programmes.

• 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.