Chemicals
Croda International is a specialist chemicals group focused on high-value ingredients used in consumer care and life-science applications. Its products are typically small components of customers' finished products but can be important to performance, formulation and product differentiation.
Speciality ingredients for beauty and personal care, crop protection, pharmaceutical delivery and other life-science applications, supported by formulation science, manufacturing, research and customer-specific technical development.
Global consumer-care, pharmaceutical and agricultural markets, with customers ranging from major multinational brands to specialist formulators. North America, Europe and Asia are all important regions.
Beauty and personal-care demand, pharmaceutical project progression, agricultural volumes, new product launches, innovation, pricing, utilisation of new manufacturing capacity and recovery in customer inventory levels.
Weak consumer or agricultural demand, customer destocking, raw-material and energy costs, foreign exchange movements, delays to pharmaceutical programmes, execution of major capital projects and competition from alternative ingredients.
28 July 2026: first-half sales rose 2.9% to £880.5m and adjusted pre-tax profit increased 7.6% to £147.7m. Consumer Care performed strongly and management retained its full-year outlook while continuing Croda's transformation and innovation programme.
Pays interim and final dividends. The 2025 final dividend of 63.0p went ex-dividend on 9 April 2026 and was paid on 27 May. The 2026 interim is 48.0p, payable on 6 October to shareholders on the register on 28 August; check the market timetable for the corresponding ex-dividend date.
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