Firmenich - Flavors, Fragrances and Tailored Solutions that Inspire Clients and their Brands

Firmenich is the largest private company in the flavor and fragrance industry and one of the top three companies worldwide. Swiss and family-owned, we have been creating many of your favorite perfumes for over 100 years and produce many of the flavors you enjoy each day.

Firmenich's value-added ingredients and encapsulation solutions, allied to our exceptional understanding of sensory perceptions and consumer trends, has helped us acquire a top-class reputation for inspiring our clients and their brands. We have reinforced our position as partner of choice in the flavor and fragrance industry.

Our new commitment to nutrition and health brings our long experience in the intricacies of taste and our state-of-the-art encapsulation know-how to bear on the protection of unstable, but clinically effective ingredients in foods.

FLAVORS - YOUR GLOBAL SOLUTION PROVIDER

Every day, thousands of Firmenich flavors effectively bring life to the most prestigious brands, bringing pleasure to the palates of men, women and children around the world.

As global partners to leading food and beverage manufacturers, we set trends and provide complete flavor solutions for sweet, savory and beverage applications. These flavors are available as natural and nature-identical in both liquid and dry form, the latter including our unique encapsulation flavor systems for which we are the industry leader.

NUTRITION AND HEALTH

Building upon our flavor expertise, Firmenich's Nutrition & Health Unit now offers nutritional specialty ingredients. This platform contributes effectively to delivering healthy food and beverage products to today’s demanding consumers asking for nutritious foods that taste great.

YOUR INNOVATION PARTNER

Our commitment to innovation has driven us to develop and offer a wide choice of unique raw materials and a variety of flavor delivery systems that respond to market needs.

The resulting innovative portfolio has enabled us to give consumer products a clear competitive advantage in terms of flavor profile, flavor delivery, application performance, shelf life and consumer preference.

We also work closely with our customers' food technologists, to ensure flavor performance and stability under even the most rigorous industrial processing conditions.

TECHNOLOGY, CREATIVITY AND SERVICE

Because we are passionate about our art, we understand the emotional value of our creations, as well as their essential role in the product mix. This duality of emotion and functionality is represented in our three pillars - technology, creativity and service - and we take special care in maintaining a fine balance for optimal performance.

This unique approach has been identified as our key success factor in generating superior customer satisfaction, allowing Firmenich to consistently gain market share in a highly competitive environment.

Firmenich is renowned for its creativity and innovation, as well as its unequaled ability to provide targeted solutions for the challenges our clients face. Superior investments in R&D reflect our early and continued passion for understanding, sharing and even transcending the best of nature in the realms of smell and taste. Our products include fine fragrances, body care, cosmetics and home care products, beverages, savories and sweet goods.

We are proud to invite you to experience the Firmenich way of working, by contacting your closest representative office.