Symrise - Food Flavourings, Fragrances and Cosmetics

Symrise, a global supplier of flavourings and fragrances as well as cosmetic raw materials and active ingredients, has the philosophy: "Always inspiring more …" It serves clients from the international food, fragrance and cosmetic industries.

Symrise ranks among the top four on the global fragrance and flavouring market, is third in the international flavouring growth-market and the European market leader. The corporation's headquarters is in Holzminden, Germany, and it has 31 sites throughout Europe, the US, the Asian-Pacific region and South America.

CUSTOMISED FLAVOURING AND NUTRITION PRODUCTS

In the flavour and nutrition, and scent and care divisions Symrise holds top technology, research, creativity and innovation positions. With approximately 40 patent applications each year, Symrise is one of the most innovative manufacturers in the industry.

The corporation offers customised product solutions from a single source. It combines insights into consumer trends with future oriented technologies, allowing it to keep its promises to its clients.

ASSISTING FOOD PRODUCTS FROM INSPIRATION TO LAUNCH

Symrise is at home in the food markets of the world. Cooperating with the leading market-research institutes, we know all about international trends, national preferences and regional choices of consumers.

Our sensory and consumer-science department is distinguished by the way it intelligently combines sensory analysis methods with consumer research. This is where we develop ideas for new future-forward product concepts.

HEALTHY 'TASTE FOR LIFE™' FOOD

Increasingly, modern consumers want healthy living without giving up enjoyment. This shift in consumer values and expectations has brought about a turning point in the food industry and its products. With its new cutting-edge 'taste for life™' product portfolio, Symrise's flavour and nutrition division perfectly reflects the spirit of our times.

'Taste for life' offers the international food-industry unique opportunities and taste solutions for healthier products that have the same full taste. It provides a major competitive advantage in the finished product's flavour, as well as a significant reduction in ingredients like sugar, salt and fat.

SWEET AND SAVOURY FLAVOURINGS

Symrise is the supplier of choice for many of the world's largest food and beverage manufacturers. Its well-defined core competences include savoury flavourings for use in soups, snacks and ready-to-serve foods; sweet flavourings for confectionery products, baked goods, dairy products and ice creams; and flavourings for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as instant drinks.

Symrise is also one of the top names in the field of citrus, vanilla and culinary flavourings.

As a close partner in the industry, Symrise not only offers trailblazing product solutions and comprehensive knowledge about brands and markets; it also implements its expertise in every step of the development process, from application technologies all the way to consumer research.

State-of-the-art technology is one of Symrise's core competences, and is what makes the company's development strategy so successful, giving Symrise flavourings their optimal functional properties. One area of particular focus, for example, is encapsulated flavourings. They are used to sustain or delay the release of a flavour, or to emphasise the freshness of a food.

FLAVOURING DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

On the international flavourings market, Symrise's role as a traditional supplier of flavours has evolved into a close partnership with its clients. When manufacturers in the food industry develop and produce a new product, numerous questions arise.

With its decades of experience and broad foundation of expertise, Symrise can accompany the client throughout every step of the development process: selecting the right raw materials, using the desired flavourings, performing production-scale test batches, providing consultation about choosing the proper production facilities and processes.

Symrise plays an integral part in developing new technologies and processes, thanks to its cooperation with international food-production machinery manufactures. With its years of experience in working with an endless variety of raw materials, Symrise is able to assist these manufacturers in testing new equipment and systems. If desired, Symrise can also serve as the liaison to the cooperating industry in question.

GLOBAL INNOVATION CENTRE

The best example of Symrise's international collaborative endeavours with its clients is its global innovation centre, where the company analyses information from throughout the world to turn into new product ideas. Symrise's four regional centres in North and South America, Asia-Pacific and the Europe / Africa / Middle East (EAME) region are all interlinked via an international network.

Global experts develop ideas, products and concepts for beverage, savoury and sweet products. The innovation centre guarantees that Symrise's knowledge is available worldwide and can be used to benefit clients wherever it is needed.

With its "Power of 'And'" concept, Symrise has set itself the goal of creating true added value for its clients' products and brands. It does this by precisely optimising products in R&D and by offering top-notch quality, client-oriented service and intelligent sustainable solutions and concepts.