International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. IFF

What this company does

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. creates and manufactures products for application in food, beverage, health and biosciences, and scent, as well as complementary adjacent products, including natural health ingredients, used in a wide variety of consumer and end-use products. Sales in 2025 were $10.890 billion, with sales in the United States representing approximately 28% of the total and no other country accounting for more than 10% of sales. As of December 31, 2025, the company had approximately 21,500 employees worldwide, of whom approximately 5,500 were employed in the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2025, its business consisted of five segments: Taste, Food Ingredients, Health & Biosciences, Scent and, until the completion of the divestitures of the Pharma Solutions and Nitrocellulose disposal groups in May 2025, Pharma Solutions. Its Taste segment consists of the development and production of flavor compounds and natural taste solutions used by customers in savory products, beverages, sweets, and dairy products. Its Food Ingredients segment consists of a diversified portfolio of natural, artificial and plant-based specialty food ingredients that provide functional properties for food and beverage products, as well as specialty soy and pea protein with value-added formulations, emulsifiers and sweeteners. Its Health & Biosciences segment consists of the development and production of an advanced biotechnology-derived portfolio of enzymes, food cultures, probiotics and specialty ingredients for food and non-food applications. Its Scent segment creates fragrance compounds and fragrance ingredients used in perfumes and in household and personal care products.

Written from the business description in INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.