Croda International : Half Year Announcement 2019

24 July 2019

Croda International Plc

2019 Half

Year

Results

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Disclaimer & definitions

Cautionary statement

This review is intended to focus on matters which are relevant to the interests of shareholders in the Company. The purpose of the review is to assist shareholders in assessing the strategies adopted and performance delivered by the Company and the potential for those strategies to succeed. It should not be relied upon by any other party or for any other purpose. Forward looking statements are made in good faith, based on a number of assumptions concerning future events and information available to the Directors at the time of their approval of this report. These forward looking statements should be treated with caution due to the inherent uncertainties underlying such forward looking information. The user of this review should not rely unduly on these forward looking statements, which are not a guarantee of performance and which are subject to a number of uncertainties and other facts, many of which are outside the Company's control and could cause actual events to differ materially from those in these statements. No guarantee can be given of future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.

Adjusted results

Unless otherwise stated, all performance data refers to adjusted results in constant currency. Adjusted results are stated before exceptional items, acquisition costs and amortisation of intangible assets arising on acquisition, and tax thereon. The Board believes that the adjusted presentation assists shareholders by providing a meaningful basis upon which to analyse underlying business performance and make year-on-year comparisons. The same measures are used by management for planning, budgeting and reporting purposes and for the internal assessment of operating performance across the Group. The adjusted presentation is adopted on a consistent basis for each half year and full year results.

Constant currency

Constant currency results reflect current year performance for existing business translated at the prior year's average exchange rates and include the impact of acquisitions. For constant currency profit, translation is performed using the entity reporting currency. For constant currency sales, local currency sales are translated into the most relevant functional currency of the destination country of sale (for example, sales in Latin America are primarily made in US dollars, which is therefore used as the functional currency). Sales in functional

currency are then translated into Sterling using the prior year's average rates for the corresponding period.

Non-statutory terms are defined in the 'Alternative Performance Measures' section of the Finance Review in the Half Year Results Statement.

The Core Business comprises Personal Care, Life Sciences and Performance Technologies.

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Our performance

Steve Foots - Group Chief Executive

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Resilient performance despite subdued market conditions

• Core Business sales in line with prior year, despite subdued market conditions & strong comparator
• Operating profit unchanged, with stronger gross margin
• Profit before tax slightly lower, due to higher interest charge
• Improving cash generation - free cash flow up > 50%
• Healthy innovation pipeline - NPP sales increased to 28.3%

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Core Business sales & operating profit unchanged

Sales in line		Operating profit		Robust margins
		unchanged
Reported currency	Reported currency	Group return on sales

+2.4%	+1.1%	25.1%
-0.4%	+0.0%		-30 bps

Constant currency

Constant currency

Year on year change

Continued progress in most consumer markets

Return on sales at reported currency

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