# INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC

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## Overview

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) creates and manufactures ingredients and solutions for food and beverages, health and biosciences, and scent products. Its businesses encompass flavors and food ingredients, enzymes and cultures, and fragrances used in products such as personal care and household goods. IFF’s continuing operations are organized into Taste, Food Ingredients, Health & Biosciences, and Scent. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P27165747)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P74836593)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P2496365)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P15906241)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P18815291)

IFF serves customers across the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. In 2025, it reported $10.89 billion in sales and approximately 170 manufacturing facilities, creative centers and application laboratories in about 30 countries. Its stated purpose includes a commitment to “Do More Good” for people and the planet. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P11040443)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P89671673)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P55715307)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P105696039)
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## Products & services

International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) supplies flavor compounds and natural taste solutions for savory foods, beverages, sweets and dairy products, as well as spices and seasonings for culinary and alternative-protein applications. Its Food Ingredients portfolio includes soy and pea proteins, emulsifiers, sweeteners, savory ingredients and inclusions. It also makes antioxidants and antimicrobials used to preserve foods and extend shelf life. [10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P36499961)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P105355506)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P67809659)

IFF’s Scent products include fragrance compounds for perfumes, colognes, personal-care products and household products, alongside natural and synthetic fragrance ingredients used in its own formulations or sold to other manufacturers. Its Health & Biosciences portfolio includes enzymes, food cultures, probiotics and other specialty ingredients. These support fermented foods, supplements and specialized nutrition; applications also include detergents, textiles, animal nutrition and grain processing. Food enzymes can help produce low-sugar, high-fiber and lactose-free dairy products. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P77163507)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P15906241)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P75538967)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P2496365)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P102750024)

IFF also provides product-development and formulation support, including advice on changes intended to improve cost, yield or functionality. In 2025, Taste, Food Ingredients, Health & Biosciences and Scent accounted for approximately 23%, 30%, 21% and 23% of consolidated sales, respectively. The remaining approximately 3% came from Pharma Solutions, a pharmaceutical-excipients business sold during that year. [16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P100447438)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T9432798)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P8449735)
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## Geographic presence

International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) reports sales across four geographic regions. In 2025, Europe, Africa and the Middle East accounted for $3.727 billion, or 34.2% of consolidated sales; North America for $3.195 billion (29.3%); Greater Asia for $2.546 billion (23.4%); and Latin America for $1.422 billion (13.1%). [19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T13511753) U.S. sales were $3.075 billion, or 28.2% of the $10.890 billion consolidated total, while sales attributed to foreign countries were $7.815 billion (71.8%). [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T945161)[19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T13511753) No country outside the U.S. accounted for more than 10% of consolidated sales. [21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P102605784)

IFF lists principal executive offices in New York, New York, and Wilmington, Delaware. [22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P47371574) Its facilities span all four reported regions: the company lists 112 plants and 60 laboratories, with plants and laboratories in Europe, Africa and the Middle East; North America; Greater Asia; and Latin America. [23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T5739966) Principal basic research and development centers are in Union Beach, New Jersey; Wilmington, Delaware; Palo Alto, California; Brabrand, Denmark; and Leiden, the Netherlands. [24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P31078156)
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## Business segments

International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) reports four continuing business segments. Taste develops flavor compounds and natural taste solutions for foods and beverages, including savory products, sweets and dairy. Food Ingredients supplies specialty ingredients such as plant proteins, emulsifiers, sweeteners and food-protection products. Health & Biosciences provides enzymes, cultures, probiotics and other biotechnology-derived ingredients for food, nutrition, personal care and industrial applications. Scent supplies fragrance compounds for fine fragrances and consumer products, along with fragrance ingredients. [11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P105355506)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P67809659)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P75538967)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P13408536)[13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P77163507)

In 2025, Taste generated approximately 23% of reported net sales, Food Ingredients 30%, Health & Biosciences 21% and Scent 23%. The remaining approximately 3% came from Pharma Solutions, which supplied pharmaceutical excipients and was sold in May 2025; its contribution therefore reflects only part of the year. IFF established Taste and Food Ingredients as separate reportable segments in 2025, replacing the former Nourish segment. [17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T9432798)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P2723599)[27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P69861539)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P74836593)
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## Company history

International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) traces its origins to Polak & Schwarz, a flavor and essence business established by Josef Polak and Leopold Schwarz in the Netherlands in 1889. In 1958, Polak & Schwarz merged with the U.S. fragrance company van Ameringen-Haebler to form International Flavors & Fragrances. [28](https://ir.iff.com/news-releases/news-release-details/iff-celebrates-125th-anniversary-year)[29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P15709674)

IFF expanded through two major combinations decades later. It acquired Frutarom in 2018, then merged with DuPont’s Nutrition & Biosciences business in 2021. The latter transaction brought a business separated from DuPont into IFF and substantially broadened the company beyond its historical flavor and fragrance activities. [30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P39976005)[31](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P14542003)
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