Croda International PLC
50GP
Company Profile
Business description
Croda is a British specialty chemicals company with 60% of sales outside Europe. Croda operates through three segments: consumer care, life sciences, and industrial specialties. Consumer care produces specialty and active ingredients for cosmetics and skincare/haircare and also flavors and fragrances. The life sciences business manufactures products for healthcare and agrochemicals. The company sold the majority of its industrial businesses to Cargill in 2022, retaining only a subsegment of the business (industrial specialties segment) that supports the other two segments and sells their byproducts.
Contact
Cowick Hall
Snaith
GooleEast YorkshireDN14 9AA
GBRT: +44 1405860551
Sector
Basic Materials
Stock type
Cyclical
Industry
Specialty Chemicals
Fiscal Year End
Employees
5,954
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