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Company description
CRODA EUROPE LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 7 May 1920; registered for 106 years; registered office reported in EAST YORKSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 20200 · Manufacture of pesticides and other agrochemical products, with 2 additional SIC activities reported. In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2025, it reported turnover £432,408,000, profit after tax −£24,896,000, net assets £360,192,000, average employees 926.
Among active companies with electronic accounts available to BritDB, it ranks 44 by latest disclosed GBP turnover; this is a dataset comparison, not a credit rating. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 other public-register record. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- CRODA EUROPE LIMITED
- Company number
- 00167236
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
9 April 2026Next statement due
23 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £432,408,000
- Gross profit
- £103,409,000
- Operating profit
- −£37,572,000
- Profit before tax
- −£28,362,000
- Profit after tax
- −£24,896,000
- Fixed assets
- £406,985,000
- Net assets
- £360,192,000
- Current assets
- £168,189,000
- Current liabilities
- £116,669,000
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £458,505,000
- Cash at bank
- £7,178,000
- Equity
- £360,192,000
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 26.3%
- Mean bonus gap
- -16.8%
- Women receiving bonus
- 98.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 98.4%
- Women in top quartile
- 36.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 24.9%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 26.4%
- Women in lower quartile
- 59.7%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 9998.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99912.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499915.7% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99921.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99919.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499923.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99923.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99922.8% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
05 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 28 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 110 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £44,710,102
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £41,377,224
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £6,518,003
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £17,927,331
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 61.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 1.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 110 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
We apply one of our standard terms depending on the nature, size and relationship with the business in question. We offer reduced terms where we deal with small-scale, local or sole trader businesses
Retention circumstances
As the client, we don't have retention applied to us by others.
We have retention clauses in contracts for supply and fix services, dependent upon contract value and duration.
Retention release
Upon receipt of an invoice from the supplier for the retained amount, the retention held will be reviewed and, where all contractual obligations have been fulfilled, payment will be released in accordance with the agreed retention terms.
Retention release stages
Half retention is released upon completion of contract and on invoice by the vendor through our standard finance process. Remaining half is then released 12 months after completion.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 4.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Our standard payment terms are payment on the 6th or 20th of a given month following invoice e.g. 2M06 whereby an invoice received on 15 January would be paid on 6 March.
- Other payment-term information
No further comment provided
- Dispute resolution process
We deal with very few disputes in relation to payment terms and identify a resolution within days. We document agreement to payment terms with vendors before beginning any new business but aim to find a suitable resolution depending on the nature and scale of the business.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 47.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
06 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
CRODA EUROPE LIMITED
LEI 984500074D0DBF5DCC95 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 7 May 1920
- Initial LEI registration
- 20 November 2023
- LEI last updated
- 20 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 6 May 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- CRODA CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
- Legal address
- COWICK HALL, SNAITH, GOOLE, GB-ERY, DN14 9AA, GB
- Headquarters address
- COWICK HALL, SNAITH, GOOLE, GB-ERY, DN14 9AA, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
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07 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- CRODA EUROPE LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- CRODA INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 21 April 2026
- Sectors
- Other
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 8 June 2026
Policies described
Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination
Training described
Executive-level staff Other
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Professional auditors Workers within your organisation Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your organisation Announced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Other monitoring
Croda began implementing HRDD across our palm and soy supply chains, starting with a pilot programme in Brazil. Croda is working with these suppliers to develop and monitor corrective action plans,
Demonstrated progress
In 2026, Croda will expand and complete human rights due diligence across its global palm and soy supply chains, building on earlier pilot work in Brazil. Selected manufacturing sites in Asia, including Singapore, India and China, are scheduled to undergo Sedex SMETA audits as part of ongoing risk monitoring. To further build internal capability, targeted training on Croda’s human rights due diligence methodology will be delivered to procurement and other functions managing supply chain risk,
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Our agricultural supply chains (palm and soy) were identified as an area of focus.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Migrants Children
- Location: Indonesia Malaysia
- Mitigation: Carry out Human Rights Due Diligence across our global palm and soy supply chains.
- Risk: Croda’s service providers providing services offsite - logistics and transportation workers.
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Group: Women
- Location: Brazil China India
- Mitigation: To strengthen our oversight, we have developed a process requiring service providers to respond to human rights questions during onboarding. This procedure will be rolled out globally and will be piloted in Brazil in 2026.
- Risk: Croda’s service providers providing services onsite - particularly construction workers, security, cleaning and canteen staff.
- Group: Women Migrants
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UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
Croda Europe Limited
12 November 2025 · Improvement Notice
Identity methods differ by source. DfE links use source-supplied company numbers. Ofsted and Scottish care links are unique exact name-and-postcode candidates. HSE links require one unique exact Companies House organisation name. Verify candidate associations independently.
08 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Croda Europe Limited
Registration Z5947000
- Registered from
- 21 November 2001
- Current end date
- 20 November 2026
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
09 Environmental regulation
Environment Agency records
CRODA EUROPE LIMITED
4778 · DN14 9AA
- Permit or record holder
- CRODA EUROPE LIMITED
- Record date
- 18 November 2008
- Local authority
- Not supplied
- Regulated site or public record address
- COWICK HALL, SNAITH, GOOLE, EAST YORKSHIRE, DN14 9AA
- Activity
- IPPC
- Action
- Court Case
- Relevant legislation
- GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME REGS 2005
- All populated source fields
- Action Number: 4778; Offender: CRODA EUROPE LIMITED; Address: COWICK HALL, SNAITH, GOOLE, EAST YORKSHIRE, DN14 9AA; Action Date: 2008-11-18; Relevant Legislation: GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME REGS 2005; Action Type: Court Case; Agency Function: IPPC
CRODA EUROPE LIMITED
1708 · DN14 9AA
- Permit or record holder
- CRODA EUROPE LIMITED
- Record date
- 18 June 2003
- Local authority
- Not supplied
- Regulated site or public record address
- COWICK HALL, SNAITH, GOOLE, EAST YORKSHIRE, DN14 9AA
- Activity
- Water Quality
- Action
- Court Case
- Relevant legislation
- WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991
- All populated source fields
- Action Number: 1708; Offender: CRODA EUROPE LIMITED; Address: COWICK HALL, SNAITH, GOOLE, EAST YORKSHIRE, DN14 9AA; Action Date: 2003-06-18; Relevant Legislation: WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991; Action Type: Court Case; Agency Function: Water Quality
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10 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Croda Investments No 3 Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Registrar Of Companies For England And Wales
- Registration number
- 9926779
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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11 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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12 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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13 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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14 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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15 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
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16 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Manufacture of other chemical products n.e.c.
Activities of head offices
17 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
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18 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: CRODA CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
19 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Organisation enforcement records linked by one unique exact company name.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
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Financial regulation and licences.
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