Director Shareholding

Croda International PLC
11 March 2004


Croda International Plc

Croda announces that Abbey National AESOP Trustees Limited acquired on 10 March
2004, 9,734 ordinary shares in the company for the purposes of the Croda
International Plc Share Incentive Plan at a price of 284p per share.  These
shares will be used to satisfy employees' contributions to the Plan deducted
from their February pay.  The directors, as contributors to the plan, have
acquired the following interest in the shares:-

                                                                              Total Shares held in Plan
                         Partnership Shares      Matching Shares       Partnership Shares      Matching Shares

M Humphrey                       44                     44                    608*                  608*
B M Richmond                     44                     44                    608*                  608*

* Due to an administration error the actual number of partnership and matching
shares reported for the directors in February was overstated by 1 and should
have read 47 and not 48.



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