Director/PDMR Shareholding

Croda International PLC
14 February 2007


Croda International Plc
 
14 February 2007
 
NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS
 
In accordance with Disclosure Rule 3.1.4R(1), I hereby inform you that Croda International Plc ('the Company') was 
notified on 14 February 2007, that the following transactions took place in relation to the Croda International Plc 
Share Incentive Plan ('SIP') on 12 February 2007 and 14 February 2007. The SIP is an all-employee trust arrangement 
approved by HM Revenue and Customs, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the Company of 10p each, 
using deductions from salary in each monthly pay period, and receive allocations of matching free ordinary shares 
('matching shares').
 
1. The SIP trustee (Capita AESOP Trustees Limited) acquired 6,131 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 12 
February 2007 at a total cost of £38,084.65 and allocated them to employees participating in the SIP as partnership 
shares. Michael Humphrey and Michael Sean Christie, as executive directors, were deemed to become interested in these 
shares on acquisition, and to cease to be interested in them on allocation.
 
2. The SIP trustee (Capita AESOP Trustees Limited) acquired 6,131 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 14 
February 2007 at a total cost of £38,208.50 and allocated them to employees participating in the SIP as matching 
shares. Michael Humphrey and Michael Sean Christie, as executive directors, were deemed to become interested in these 
shares on acquisition, and to cease to be interested in them on allocation.
 
3. The following directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities purchased the number of ordinary shares 
of 10p set out against their names below, at a price of 615p per ordinary share, and were allocated for no 
consideration the number of matching shares set out against their names below:
 
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|Name           |Role              |Number of ordinary shares purchased|Number of matching shares allocated|
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|M Humphrey     |Executive Director|20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|S E Foots      |PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|D E Barraclough|PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|K Layden       |PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|G L Myers      |PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|K M Nutbrown   |PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|A L Scott      |PDMR              |20                                 |20                                 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
 
This notification is made in order to satisfy both section 324 of the Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule 3.1.2.
 
 
 
 
Louise Scott
Company Secretary and Legal Counsel
Croda International Plc
 
 

 



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