Croda International Plc engages in the manufacture and sale of specialty chemicals. The company is headquartered in Goole, East Riding Of Yorkshire and currently employs 6,027 full-time employees. The firm uses its smart science to create performance ingredients and technologies that improve people's lives. Its sales, marketing and research activities are organized into three global market sectors: consumer care, life sciences, and industrial specialties. Its consumer care sector's business units comprise beauty actives, fragrances and flavors, beauty care, and home care. The firm's life sciences sector's business units comprise agriculture (crop protection and seed enhancement) and pharma. The crop protection unit offers ingredients that improve performance and delivery of crop formulations. The pharma comprises drug delivery, providing excipients and adjuvants for drugs through synthesis, purification, formulation and application technology. Seed enhancement is a technology used to improve germination, stimulate the development of seeds and increase crop yields.
