Smart science to improve lives™
People Positive

Protecting society and improving lives

Developing solutions to improve health and wellbeing for society through our customers, promoting diversity in our business and delivering social impact in communities.

Living our Purpose, Smart science to improve livesTM, Croda relies on individuals, from its employees to external stakeholders and communities, promoting diversity and inclusion to contribute to a world in which, by 2050, more than nine billion people can live well, within planetary boundaries (WBCSD’s Vision 2050: Time to Transform).

As we depend upon each other, from our novel biologic technologies to sunscreens, from meaningful impact projects in our value chains and ecosystems to Croda Foundation, our ability to collaborate and innovate are key enablers to deliver impact at scale. By becoming People Positive we will directly contribute towards the following UN SDG targets: 

SDG 3.3, SDG 3.4, SDG 5.5, SDG 17

Through our Croda Foundation we are supporting a wide range of SDGs, defined by the specific projects involved.

people positive sdgs

People Positive: our world in 2030

Our progress

Gender balance and diversity and inclusion

In 2023, we increased the number of women in senior positions from 38% to 39%. This is a leading value within our peer group.

On 31 December 2023, the Board of Directors had 50% female representation. While appointments at all levels will continue to be made based on skill and ability, all forms of diversity are key to ensuring that we have the right mix of backgrounds, knowledge and experience to meet our future business needs. Work continues to be done to create further diversity and gender balance in the underlying management teams. Diversity and inclusion is central to succession planning discussions and critical to the long-term sustainable success of our business.

Broadening to diversity & inclusion (D&I)

We continue to progress against our D&I roadmap, published in 2021, identifying actions in key areas to ensure we become a more diverse and inclusive organisation: diversity data gathering; improving D&I awareness; developing our D&I brand; measuring and setting KPIs; and alignment to reward and recognition.

Following on from our Global Diversity Representation Survey, we have established region-specific objectives to address targeted issues. For example, our South Asia region established three sub-groups to address issues of communication and awareness, nurturing a D&I culture and reviewing recruitment. Our programme to build D&I awareness across Croda includes running masterclasses from thought leaders in the field, including a series of sessions on Cultural Awareness with a focus on Asia that was delivered to senior leaders. Our regional teams have also established new D&I subcommittees and affiliation groups to complement our Global D&I Committee. These have been instrumental in advising regional management on a range of topics to help deliver real change in our employee experience.

Read more about sustainability being at the heart of what we do:

Sustainability

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...
Laboratory work

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.