People Positive

Performance Summary for Strategic Targets

Since 2020, we have taken action to ensure we pay a Living Wage globally, protect and improve the health and safety of our people, support local volunteering through use of our 1% Club, and invest in sustainably improving the lives of disadvantaged communities around the world through the Croda Foundation.

Much of this is now considered ‘business as usual’ in Croda, governed by policy and overseen by standing Board Committees. Our businesses are exploring further opportunities to improve social impacts through the use of our ingredients and increasing supply chain transparency.

Living Wage

Since 2022, we continue to pay a Living Wage to all Croda employees, globally. We received external accreditation in 2025 for this work from the Fair Wage Network. See our Remuneration Report for more information. In 2025, Croda Korea has been officially certified as a Family Friendly Company by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in South Korea. The Family Friendly Company Certification is an award granted by the Korean Government to organisations that demonstrate a genuine and sustained commitment to supporting their people.

Safety, Health and Wellbeing

During 2025 we can confirm there were no significant safety, health, environmental or quality incidents across our operations on which to report.

Our Human Performance Programme aims to enhance safety, health, and environmental (SHE) leadership across Croda. The programme focuses on understanding people, promoting empathetic engagement, and developing trust. It is now active in 42 locations across Croda. It focuses on understanding risks faced by those carrying out the work and aims to solve problems to make tasks easier. Across the Group over 2,800 improvements have been completed as a result of this programme as it continues to engage teams across the globe.

A notable safety achievement in 2025 was the building and commissioning of our new greenfield manufacturing site in Dahej, Gujarat State in India, which completed over 5 million man-hours of construction without a single recordable safety incident.

Local community engagement

Our sites and offices regularly engage with local community groups as a responsible business member of the community. In 2025 particular focus was placed on our US sites in Delaware and Pennsylvania.

In addition, Croda supports employee volunteering through our 1% Club, which enables any employee to request up to 1% of their working time (approximately three days for a full-time employee) to volunteer in a local community. In 2025 employees volunteered 5,149 hours (2024: 4,202) using 1% Club time, primarily focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities with children and young adults in education.

Human rights due diligence

We advanced our human rights due diligence programme through a pilot focused on raw material suppliers in Brazil. An enhanced engagement with these higher risk suppliers was initiated via our procurement team, including targeted human rights questions. Croda Brazil completed a third party audit (Sedex SMETA) at the request of key customers, strengthening insight into site-level human rights risks and due diligence processes and reinforcing Croda’s commitment to continuous improvement. Learnings from supplier engagement and the Sedex audit are being used to inform future due diligence activities and strengthen Croda’s overall human rights risk management approach. We engaged a number of customers during 2025 about our human rights programme, which will lead to more effective collaboration on corrective action planning in the future. In 2026, we plan to roll out human rights due diligence on raw materials and certain service provision across the globe, with a specific focus on palm and soy supply chains. We will also conduct bottom-up risk assessments in other priority countries.