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• 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.

• Finance review 2025

  “With a comprehensive transformation programme that is driving both growth and efficiencies, we are firmly focused on execution. Progress so far has been encouraging, and we are setting out a financial framework to full year 2028 that outlines further improvements in financial performance.”

• 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.

• Industrial Specialties business review

  Discover how Industrial Specialties is enabling continued growth, exploring innovation, market trends, and strategic growth driving performance in this year’s annual report business review.

• Consumer Care sustainability review

  Connecting sustainability to people, making it personal, is core to the sustainability focus within the Consumer Care business. Consumers desire personal care products that deliver performance, without negatively impacting the planet. Keeping this at the core creates value for our customers’ brands and the consumers they serve.

• Sustainability Progress Statement

  Explore our 2025 Sustainability Progress Statement to see how we’re driving measurable progress on climate action, responsible sourcing, and social impact, creating sustainable solutions that deliver lasting value for our customers, communities, and the planet.

• Climate Positive

  By 2030, we will be Climate Positive.

• EMEA

  Our global headquarters are based in Yorkshire in the UK. We also have a number of offices and manufacturing sites spread across the region.

• USA

  Croda Inc is the North American headquarters for Croda, with over 800 employees, working in a variety of roles in manufacturing, sales, marketing and research and development.

• North America

  Croda Inc is the North American headquarters for Croda, we have four manufacturing sites, four innovation centres and four sales hubs in the region.

• UK Pensions

  Explore information on Croda UK pensions, including state pensions, workplace schemes, death benefits and retirement.

• People Positive

  By 2030, we will be People Positive.

• 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.

• Chief Executive sustainability statement

  “By thinking boldly, acting with purpose, and living our values every day, we are bringing Smart science to improve lives™ to life and working hard to achieve our commitment to be the most sustainable supplier of innovative ingredients by 2030, delivering solutions to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges”

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• Croda launches animated timeline to showcase 100 years of innovation

  13 February 2025: Croda today launches an animated historical timeline to mark its centenary year.

• 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.

• 2024 Annual Report

  Access Croda's latest annual report for comprehensive insights into our performance and strategic direction. Stay informed with our investor resources.

• Annual Report

  Explore Croda’s annual reports, financial results and sustainability performance. Access the latest report, key highlights and downloadable documents from recent years.

• 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.

• Chairs statement 2025

  A message from the Chair, Danuta Gray, highlighting the company’s performance, strategic progress, governance priorities, and outlook for sustainable growth in the year ahead.

• Chief Executive's Statement 2025

  An overview from Steve Foots, our Chief Executive, outlining the year’s key achievements, business performance, strategic priorities, and future outlook for growth and innovation.

• Careers

  Here at Croda, our people and operations are what make us who we are, we have people across the world, operating in 37 different countries.

• 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.

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• India

  Croda India's manufacturing site was founded in 1995 and is located at Navi Mumbai.

• Greater China

  Croda has been present in China since 1993.

• Singapore

  Croda Singapore was founded in 1986 and is the regional headquarters of the Asia Pacific region.

• 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.

• Croda acquired crop enhancement company Plant Impact

  Plant Impact identifies ways to improve the yield and quality of crops by stimulating or moderating plant responses in both healthy and stressed crops during key growth stages.

• 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 marine biotechnology specialists Nautilus

  World class scientists, focusing on using marine microbial biodiversity to discover novel actives and materials for applications across all Croda market sectors.

• Croda acquires Inventiva, encapsulation and delivery system technology

  It will form the basis of a research and technology platform for the encapsulation and delivery of Croda’s products, providing a new dimension in the company’s innovation programme.

• Croda acquires research enterprise Enza Biotech

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

• Croda expands Iberchems fragrances offering with the acquisition of Parfex

  Croda has acquired a controlling majority 95.6% of Parfex’s outstanding shares, comprising the founding shareholders and certain minority investors.

• Acquisition of Alban Muller

  The acquisition expands Croda’s portfolio of sustainable active ingredients for customers in personal care markets.

• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

  Useful links to further information on our environmental, governance and social impact.

• Ratings and frameworks

  View our ratings and frameworks which help to shape our sustainability programme.

• Non-financial performance and reports

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

• Our Commitment

  Croda is committed to being Climate, Nature, and People Positive by 2030, integrating sustainability into its core practices to positively impact the environment and society for a healthier planet and future generations.

• Our sustainability leadership

  Discover how Croda are driving deeper impact to create greater value across fewer targets.

• Croda Foundation

  Introduction to the Croda Foundation, the independently managed, philanthropic arm of Croda International.

• Sustainability

  Sustainability spans every area of our business and is a crucial way we add value to our customers.

• Investor seminar on our sustainability strategy

  20 October 2020: Steve Foots, CEO and other senior members of our management team provided a comprehensive overview of our 2030 sustainability Commitment.

• Global Graduate Development Programme Opportunities

  Our programme for recent graduates offers a unique experience. All schemes enable you to quickly grow an understanding of the business and the different areas within.

• Rewarding careers at Croda

  Find out more about the rewards available at Croda.

• Current vacancies

  At Croda, our people are our difference. We are committed to using Smart science to improve lives™ while driving a sustainable future. Join our team and be part of a responsible, inclusive culture where your contributions make an impact.

• Bank of America Beauty Event

  16 May 2025: Croda International plc hosted a Croda Beauty Event with Bank of America.

• Site visit to Incotec Seed Treatment business in the Netherlands

  11 April 2018: Croda International plc hosted an investor event for analysts and investors on 11 April 2018 at its Incotec facility in the Netherlands and concluded on 12 April 2018 with a series of presentations in Amsterdam.

• Jefferies visit to Grasse May 2025

  22 May 2025: Croda International plc hosted Jefferies at a tour of our F&F site, Parfex in Grasse, France.

• Awards and certifications

  Many aspects of our sustainability commitment have been recognised externally, and we actively seek certification in key areas of our operations.

• Biotechnology in Personal Care

  Explore the role of biotechnology in the personal care industry and its potential to become the innovative new toolset of choice in our detailed report.

• Biotechnology in fragrances

  This report will outline and discuss the opportunities to meet sustainability and innovation goals within fragrances.

• Biotechnology in Home Care

  This report will outline and discuss the opportunities to meet sustainability and innovation goals within home care.

• Biotechnology at Croda

  Our innovation is focused on sustainability and, in particular, biotechnology, enhancing the sustainability of our processes and products.

• Specialist biotechnology capabilities

  At Croda, thanks to our expertise across a wide range of biotechnology specialisms, we are developing new, innovative and sustainable ingredients to support our customers in bringing to market exciting often niche products.

• Partner with us

  Innovation thrives when it’s driven by a diverse mix of ideas, this is why we always look to collaborate and share insight with our industry partners.

• Our strategy

  Our focus on innovation, sustainability and growth ensures that Croda smart science helps our customers meet their own sustainability targets as well as consumer demands.

• Procurement and sustainable sourcing

  Using natural resources brings a responsibility to ensure no associated negative social or environmental impacts, and an opportunity to advocate and contribute to positive change.

• Ethics

  Responsible and ethical behaviour is fundamental to the way we operate at Croda.

• Megatrends

  Trends which will influence market demand and growth at Croda, Providing new opportunities and shaping our approach.

• Our Fundamentals

  We will consider all stakeholders in our ecosystem and adopt best practices in environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement.

• Nature Positive

  By 2030, we will be Nature Positive.

• Safety

  Behavioural and process safety are extremely important for us at Croda, the safety of our employees and neighbours is of paramount importance.

• Governance

  Our Board are responsible for good governance and are committed to the highest standards of corporate governance.

• Policies and procedures

  We operate a range of policies covering all area of our Business to uphold the principles of socially responsible business practices.

• New frontiers in fragrance and flavours

  Croda acquired international fragrances and flavours company Iberchem in 2020, the largest acquisition in our history and a major move into a market strongly aligned with our business.

• Modern slavery

  The Modern Slavery Act was introduced in 2015. It requires larger businesses to report annually the steps that they are taking to reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking taking place within their supply chains or in any part of their businesses. Read Croda's statement here.

• Our targets

  We are developing our sustainability strategy to 2030, ensuring our alignment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• Leadership

  Our Board and Executive Committee provide leadership in delivering for our customers and achieving our strategic priorities.

• Our Values

  At Croda, our company core values of Responsible, Innovative, and Together are at the heart of how we operate, shaping a unique, collaborative culture that supports our Purpose.

• 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: Dhanila Varkey, Applications Team Lead

  Discover how Croda’s applications expert Dhanila Varkey is using nanotechnology to improve targeting, absorption and effectiveness in topical and transdermal drug delivery.

• 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.

• Meet the expert: Chris Wells, Applications Team Lead

  Meet the expert: Chris Wells, Applications Team Lead

• 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.

• Sustainability Impact Report 2024

  Find our 2024 Sustainability Impact Report here

• Steve Foots, CEO Sustainability Statement 2024

  One of our core philosophies is to take a leadership position in sustainability and innovation in our chosen markets.

• Materiality assessment

  Our Materiality Assessment performed a comprehensive value chain assessment, and identified areas of transformative action within the business

• Sustainability Report archive

  View our sustainability report archives.

• Croda acquires innovative seed enhancement company Incotec

  Operating in one of the fastest growing segments within the crop care market, Incotec develop and supply a wide range of proprietary and sustainable technologies for both vegetable seeds and field crops.

• Acquisition of Iberchem expands reach into high growth fragrances market

  Acquiring the entire issued share capital of Fragrance Spanish Topco, S.L., trading as Iberchem (“the acquisition”), a leading global fragrances and flavours (“F&F”) company.

• Strengthening Life Sciences with the acquisition of Avanti Polar Lipids

  A leader in drug delivery systems for next generation pharmaceuticals, the acquisition more than doubles Croda’s research and development (R&D) capability in drug delivery.

• Strategic investment Entekno Materials

  A new Smart Partnership focused on the development of a new particle technology that will deliver superior protection benefits to the sun care and personal care markets.

• 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.

• Vietnam

  Croda’s Vietnam office was founded in 2012 and is located in Ho Chi Minh City.

• 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.

• Annual Report archive

  Annual reports from previous years.

• Brazil

  Croda do Brasil was established in 1974 and the Campinas manufacturing site in 1977.

• Mexico

  In 1977, a joint venture company was formed in Mexico, Quimica Croda SA.

• Croda Half Year Results fireside chat with Morgan Stanley

  Watch our fireside chat with Morgan Stanley from 29 July 2025.

• PTIC divestment

  View the full webinar from the 22 December 2021 discussing the agreement to divest the majority of our PTIC businesses to Cargill Inc.

• Third quarter trading update

  Update on trading from 01 July to 30 September 2023

• Half year 2024 results

  Group performance in line with expectations reflecting more stable market conditions and operational progress

• UK Government to support expansion of Croda's lipid systems manufacturing facility

  31 March 2022: This investment will significantly enhance the development of high-purity lipid systems, essential delivery systems for next generation nucleic acid drugs such as mRNA vaccines.