We've been on the path of discovery since the beginning. As our company grows, we take stock of everything we’ve been and set our eyes on a better world.
The first of IFF’s parent companies was established in 1889, but our history of doing more good with the beauty of art and the precision of science can be traced back even further. Here’s a look at our extraordinary lineage and the explorers who dared to dream, to ask brave questions and to pursue new frontiers in the science of the senses. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
History Timeline - 1833
Stafford Allen & Sons Ltd. (Bush Boake Allen Predecessor)
Stafford Allen, a miller, and Charles May, a druggist and herb grower, join forces to produce pure drugs in an era when sawdust was a routine ingredient on the pharmacy shelf.
They focus on production of essential oils, especially sandalwood oil and clove.
By the 1870s, the company has branched out to Africa, where it obtains almond oil, cochineal, peach, and apricot kernels.
History Timeline-1851
W.J. Bush & Co. (Bush Boake Allen Predecessor)
While in his teens, William John Bush studied botany, herbalism, and chemistry. He grasped the importance of volatile constituents of herbs and spices as the basis of an essential oils industry.
At age 22, he acquires a small factory in London where he begins the steam distillation of herbs, spices, and woods and the preparation of tinctures and essences.
By 1890, the company has opened a factory in Mili, Messina, Italy to process “Sicilian Oils”.
History Timeline-1869
A. Boake Roberts Ltd. (Bush Boake Allen Predecessor)
Boake and Roberts found their company to produce brewing chemicals (originally bisulphite of lime as a preservative). Arthur Boake comes up with a product for clarifying wine, which he sells successfully in France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, and Hungary.
In the 1890s, the association of soft drinks with brewing leads Boake, Roberts to begin the manufacture of flavoring essences and the distillation of essential oils. Stafford Allen & Sons Ltd., W.J. Bush & Co., and A. Boake Roberts Ltd., later merged to form Bush Boake Allen (BBA), which was acquired by IFF in 2000.
History Timeline-1884
Ottens Flavors
Henry Ottens founds Ottens Flavors.
Over the next 136 years, the business grows and prospers with a reputation for great customer service and speed-to-market, proven flavors innovations and high-quality products.
In 2015, Ottens Flavors is acquired by IFF to leverage their complementary strengths.
History Timeline-1886
Potter & Moore Acquired
W.J. Bush acquires Potter & Moore, a firm founded in 1749 and engaged in the distillation of peppermint, lavender, and chamomile.
History Timeline-1889
Polak and Schwarz
Joseph Polak & Leopold Schwarz, residents of the small Dutch town of Zutphen, form their business to process concentrated fruit juices. In only seven years, they have to open a second factory.
Leopold Schwarz is considered by many to be the partner with the passion and initiative for the new enterprise. He was born in 1864, the third of eleven children of Nathan Schwarz and Jetje Froṻelich in Zutphen. He was passionate about spices, herbs, flavors and thought that he could make his living selling fruit essences, a nascent trade at the time.
The business grew as P&S products won awards and acclaim for their high quality and excellent flavors. Polak and Schwarz were sought after as experts in the field and jury members in exhibitions.
History Timeline-1901
Flavors and Fragrances
1901–1960: Over the first 60 years of the century, the companies that would become IFF all experience globalization on a grand scale. It is a period of geographic and cultural discovery in which the business of flavors and fragrances flourishes.
Every region of the world has a contribution to make and an important role to play. Perhaps more than any other industry, flavors and fragrances becomes truly global and multicultural during this period of amazing growth. Geographic growth sets the stage for the coming era of scientific advances and a series of powerful mergers that create the modern IFF.
Ottens Flavors Inc.
Ottens Flavors incorporates in Pennsylvania, USA.
History Timeline-1917
A. L. van Ameringen (IFF Chairman)
Arnold Louis van Ameringen surely ranks among the superstars of IFF history. He is often described as the “charismatic and enterprising Dutchman” in our history documents. The (unverified) story is that he lost his job with P&S because of his suggestion that they initiate a profit-sharing plan for employees – a radical idea at the time. Undaunted, he began his own successful business and ran it for the next 42 years.
Van, as he was known, dabbled in perfumery, was an amateur magician, a gourmet, lover of life, and a hedonist. He loved golf and cards and teaching at university. His passion extended to philanthropy, as well. He was particularly interested in organizations that helped those who suffered from mental disorders integrate back into society.
He always felt that the merger of van Ameringen-Haebler with Polak & Schwarz to be the sweetest type of revenge – to ultimately lead the company that fired him so long ago.
History Timeline-1920
Ottens Flavors
Ottens Flavors’ reputation and sales grow steadily.
History Timeline-1929
van Ameringen-Haebler Merger
In 1929, van Ameringen forms a partnership with a colleague, Dr. William T. Haebler, and after acquiring an aromatic chemical plant in Elizabeth, New Jersey, van Ameringen-Haebler, Inc. is born.
For the next 30 years, with van Ameringen at the helm as president and Haebler as treasurer, van Ameringen-Haebler grows despite the difficulties of operating through a depression and a world war.
During this phase in the company’s history, approximately 90% of van Ameringen-Haebler’s volume is in fragrances.
History Timeline-1935
Polak & Schwarz, New York
During the early 1930s, due to strict import regulations, the depression, and the use of third party sales agents, Polak & Schwarz’s sales in America are meager at best.
P&S decides to send a senior manager to New York to take over operations in America—a move that leads to the founding of an official P&S branch in New York in 1935.
History Timeline-1940
Ottens Flavors
Ottens Flavors’ business expands to entire East Coast of the United States.
History Timeline-1941
C.C. (Cook) Brummer, Holocaust Hero
The German invasion makes it impossible for companies to have a Jewish management and Polak & Schwarz is forced to hire an “Aryan” director.
In addition, young, healthy men are obliged to enlist in the German workforce (Arbeitseinsatz), so many employees are lost—and many never return.
P&S makes their own employee identification cards to prevent more personnel from being conscripted, but this is considered insubordination and Adolph Schwarz, nephew of founder Leopold, is arrested. He and his family survive the concentration camp Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia.
It would be impossible to overstate the personal and professional risks taken by Adolph Schwarz in the interest of protecting his people. But this burden was similarly shouldered by Cook “CC” Brummer, Constant Cornelis (Cook) Brummer (Bussum, the Netherlands; February 2, 1900 - May 5, 1988), the Aryan director hired to oversee operations.
What the authorities could not know is that Cook was a Jewish sympathizer who not only allowed, but fully supported and aided Adolph’s efforts to protect his people with false ID cards, hiding escapees in empty vats, ensuring food for the P&S workers, and more. Though the scope of his contributions may never be fully known, C.C. has been honored for his efforts to save so many from the hands of the Nazis.
History Timeline-1950
Ottens Flavors, Pennsylvania
Ottens Flavors is purchased by local banker George C. Robinson and operates out of 127 Front Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, a former stopover for the Underground Railroad.
History Timeline-1958
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
In 1958, a merger between the worldwide operations of Polak & Schwarz and van Ameringen-Haebler allows the company, renamed International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., to become a major supplier in the flavor and fragrance business and to grow internationally almost overnight.
The irony of merging with the very same company he left over 40 years before is not lost on van Ameringen.
History Timeline-1964
IFF, NYSE
International Flavors & Fragrances is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
History Timeline-1965
Ottens Flavors
Ottens Flavors moves to Hamilton Street in the Spring Garden section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Sales spread nationally.
Josephine Catapano
A chemist and perfumer for fifty five years at IFF, Josephine Catapano was a woman of strong character with great warmth, humility, and a wonderful sense of humor.
After starting her career as a laboratory assistant at van Ameringen-Haebler in New York in the early 40s at a time when the perfume industry was a male realm, she learned her trade alongside iconic perfumer Ernest Shiftan.
During the past half century at IFF, from 1940 to 1995, she designed very big as Youth Dew fragrance, Norell, Fiji, Chaps ....
Voluntary, independent, modest but tenacious, Josephine Catapano remains today a benchmark for all the perfumers, and particularly women.
Dr. Braja Mookherjee
Braja Mookherjee was one of the true innovators of IFF.
The world leader in his field, Dr Mookherjee was recruited in 1965 by IFF before he had a chance to finish his Ph.D. in aroma chemistry at Rutgers University, NJ.
Deeply spiritual and a lover of nature, this brilliant scientist from Bangladesh revolutionized perfumery by developing a means of collecting aroma molecules from living flowers.
His hand touched nearly everything at IFF, from the major impact chemicals we use to key technologies such as Living Flavors, Living Flowers, Aura of Aroma, Hydroponics, to the Space Rose and synthetic Ambergris.
History Timeline-1966
Bush Boake Allen Ltd.
Stafford Allen & Sons, W.J. Bush & Company, and A. Boake, Roberts & Co. join forces to become Bush Boake Allen Ltd.
A.L. van Ameringen, 1891-1966
Founder A.L. van Ameringen dies. He served as president of van Ameringen-Haebler and later IFF for 37 years, the last ten of which he was also chairman of the board.
History Timeline-1967
IFF, N.J.
IFF opens a new Research and Development center in Union Beach, New Jersey.
History Timeline-1968
IFF creates breakthroughs in fermentation process technology and the development of key natural compounds. Patents are granted for unique meat, savory, and process flavor technologies.
Monell Chemical Senses Center
In conjunction with the Monell Foundation, IFF establishes the Monell Chemical Senses Center, dedicated to the research of taste and smell.
History Timeline-1970
Henry G. Walter (IFF CEO)
Hank Walter was the lawyer who helped broker the merger between van Ameringen-Haebler and Polak & Schwarz. A man of nearly boundless curiosity, Hank was a visionary spirit, brilliant, but extremely pragmatic.
He was a generous leader, a nonconformist that took the torch held by Mr. van Ameringen with panache and put everything into the internationalization of IFF without ever losing sight of the very human side of the field at hand: Olfaction and taste.
He greatly contributed to fundamental research in these two fields by cofounding the Monell Institute and by leaving to posterity a formula that was as simple, powerful and iconoclastic as himself: “We are the industry of sex and hunger.”
Hank Walter is still considered to be one of the most influential people in the industry.
History Timeline-1974
Synthetic Ambergris
IFF creates synthetic ambergris, a substitute for the product produced by whales. This new ingredient is an affordable, available, and sustainable alternative to the natural.
History Timeline-1975
Ottens Flavors
Ottens Flavors goes international with sales to Japan and Sweden.
History Timeline-1982
Aroma Science
In collaboration with Yale University’s Psychophysiology Department, IFF pioneers the concept of Aroma Science, studying the effect of fragrance on human emotions.
History Timeline-1983
LMR
Laboratoire Monique Rémy (LMR) is founded in Grasse, France, in 1983 by Monique Rémy to deliver premium quality, 100% pure and natural extracts.
History Timeline-1985
Living Flower® Technology
IFF scientist Dr. Braja Mookherjee invents the Living Flower® technology. Through the use of Solid Phase Micro Extraction™, which enables IFF to capture and study the aroma components of a flower at its peak and re-create the fragrance, changing the way that perfumes are created.
Eugene P. Grisanti (IFF CEO and President)
Eugene P. Grisanti succeeds Henry G. Walter Jr. as chairman and president of IFF.
History Timeline-1987
Mood Mapping™
IFF develops Mood Mapping™ techniques for identifying individual fragrance combinations affecting specific human emotions.
History Timeline-1988
Natural Flavor
IFF produces on an industrial scale, the first all-natural flavor ingredient by pure culture, sterile fermentation.
History Timeline-1990
Ottens Flavors
Ottens Flavors moves to a new, state-of-the-art facility at Holstein Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
History Timeline-1992
Emotion of Flowers®
IFF researchers find that when two different flowers grow side by side, they produce an entirely new fragrance, not just a combination of the two, a phenomenon called Emotion of Flowers®.
History Timeline-1994
Living Flavor® Technology
IFF launches Living Flavor® technology, capturing the aroma and flavor of fruits, vegetables, and spices.
The technology wins Food Ingredients’ Best Marketing Achievement award, Food and Beverage Marketing’s Innovator of the Year award, and Food Processing’s Honors Award.
History Timeline-1995
IFF R&D Greenhouse
IFF celebrates the opening of its 2,600 square foot, state-of-the-art, climate-controlled greenhouse, which is home to more than 750 varieties of plants from all over the world.
Captiff
IFF launches Captiff, a new dry-flavor encapsulation system, globally.
The new system wins the Food Ingredients Europe “Marketing Achievement” award.
Aura of Aroma®
IFF develops a revolutionary new technology called Aura of Aroma®, which is used to enhance fragrance substantivity.
History Timeline-1996
Biorhythm of Flowers®
IFF scientists recreate a flower’s unique odor properties at different stages of its lifecycle.
This recreation, Biorhythm of Flowers®, involves the aroma changes from bud to full bloom to faded blossom.
History Timeline-1997
SPME
Using the new solid-phase microextraction (SPME) technique, IFF captures unique environmental odors such as the clear scent of a mountaintop.
Instantiff®
IFF introduces Instantiff®, a free-flowing granular flavor product for use in a variety of applications.
History Timeline-1998
Neblina
During the month-long expedition to Neblina, Venezuela, the IFF team analyzes new and interesting scents of various orchids, plants, woods, barks, and minerals using IFF’s proprietary Living Flower® technology.
The technology enables them to collect the aromas of these living species without ever having to cut or remove them from their natural environment.
Space Rose
IFF sends a miniature rose plant, “Overnight Scentsation,” aboard NASA’s STS-95 Discovery to determine how the flower’s scent changes in zero gravity.
Using Solid Phase Micro Extraction™, Dr. Mookherjee and his team were able to extract the odorous molecules from the living flower during its shuttle flight and found that the rose’s scent radically changed at zero gravity.
They were then able to reproduce in the lab a variety of heavenly fragrances previously unknown to the human senses of taste and smell.
IFF was able to commercialize that “heavenly” scent in Zen, the fragrance launched by Shiseido.
Functional Seasonings
IFF introduces functional seasonings that provide optimal taste and texture for quick-frozen foods.
History Timeline-1999
Sensates
IFF develops flavor modulators that provide tingle, mouthwarming, or cooling sensations.
Consumer Fragrance Thesaurus
IFF begins implementation of the Consumer Fragrance Thesaurus, an interactive brainstorming tool for new fragrance ideas and fragrance personalities.
History Timeline-2000
Richard A. Goldstein
Richard A. Goldstein succeeds Eugene P. Grisanti as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IFF.
IFF LMR
IFF acquires Laboratoire Monique Remy (LMR) based in Grasse, France.
LMR is known for cultivating and extracting the finest natural fragrance ingredients in the world while maintaining a strong focus on the sustainability, transparency purity of its natural ingredients.
Renamed IFF-LMR Naturals, it grows to four production sites, including Grasse and Lozere, France, Isparta, Turkey; and Benicarlo, Spain.
Ahead of the curve of sustainability, IFF-LMR Naturals receives multiple For Life Certifications for its products and partnerships.
IFF Singapore
IFF opens its new Regional Technical and Creative Center in Singapore.
This state-of-the-art facility serves as the headquarters for IFF’s Asia Pacific operations, providing technical, creative, management, and sales and marketing support to the region.
Bush Boake Allen Inc.
IFF acquires Bush Boake Allen Inc., creating the world’s largest flavor and fragrance company.
History Timeline-2001
IFF Hydroponics
IFF breaks new ground in natural products research with the addition of a hydroponic greenhouse in Union Beach, New Jersey—adding 1,300 square feet to the existing R&D greenhouse.
The new greenhouse enables IFF to provide customers with fragrances and flavors that promote health and wellness.
IFF Shanghai
IFF opens a new Technical and Creative Center in Shanghai, China.
The new 2,600-square-meter facility, which includes offices, laboratories, and a consumer research center.
History Timeline-2002
IFF Rebrand
IFF unveils a refreshed corporate identity, including an updated logo and new advertising featuring striking photos of flowers, fruits, and vegetables.
Fortune Magazine's Most Admired American Companies
IFF is ranked among the world's best soap and cosmetic companies in Fortune magazine's 2002 Most Admired American Companies.
IFF shares the honor with consumer product powerhouses Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Estée Lauder.
IFF Perfumery School
In September 2002, IFF opens a Perfumery School in its New York headquarters, under the direction of industry veteran Ron Winnegrad.
Ottens Flavors
Ottens Flavors enters Asia with Sales and Application lab in the Philippines and Singapore.
History Timeline-2003
IFF Fragrance R&D Hair Care Salon
In April 2003, IFF opens a full-service hair salon in its global headquarters in New York.
The on-site salon serves as a testing ground for IFF's global network of hair care perfumers and evaluators, who can now experiment and get immediate feedback on how fragrance performs on wet hair, during the drying process, and after styling.
CoolTek™
After years of successful use in oral care products and chewing gums, and even helping to generate a new line of breath film products, IFF expands its propriety cooling technology, CoolTek™, into the beverage market.
The breakthrough technology imparts a cooling sensation without the use of mint and without the "burn," aroma, or flavor of menthol.
CapLock™
IFF launches CapLock™, a new flavor encapsulation technology that provides premium flavor quality and stability, even after 24 months of storage.
The technology is an important advancement for product developers who are looking for long flavor shelf-life in consumer products.
IFF Visionaire
IFF collaborates with fashion and art publication Visionaire on their 42nd edition, SCENT.
Released in December 2003, SCENT combines 21 original fragrances created by IFF's talented perfumers with visual interpretations from top artists in a variety of fields, including Karl Lagerfeld, Mario Testino, David Bowie, Iman, Kate Moss, Stephen King, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Gus Van Sant.
The perfumers and artists offer their interpretations of Cold, Noise, Hunger, Gigabyte, 2Am, Mother, Broken Glass, Instinct, and others.
History Timeline-2004
IFF Culinary & Bakery Center
As part of its continuous effort to create winning flavors for its customers, IFF breaks ground for a new state-of-the-art Culinary & Bakery Center in February 2004.
Built at the existing North America Regional Creative Center in South Brunswick, New Jersey, the new facility enables IFF to better support customers’ product development programs in the retail and foodservice markets, expand the Company’s capabilities in the savory and bakery categories, and provide hands-on training and product demonstrations for customers.
The Culinary & Bakery Center also serves as the North American headquarters for the execution of IFF’s global Culinessence™ program.
History Timeline-2005
Sensory Perception™
In April 2005, IFF wins the fragrance industry’s highest honor, the FiFi® Award, for “Technological Breakthrough of the Year” with its unique Sensory Perception™ technology.
The technology is a microencapsulation delivery system for textiles that allows fragrance or active ingredients, such as aloe vera or vitamin E, to be released from clothing, sheets, or other textiles over a period of time.
The technology opens up an exciting new area of business for the fragrance industry—the textile market—and a world of possibilities for consumers.
IFF Paris
With the opening of its new 5,000 square-meter creative center in Neuilly Sur Seine, IFF becomes the first major fragrance house in Paris to unite both fine fragrances and beauty care, including toiletries, together in one powerful unit.
IFF Singapore
IFF expands its fragrance plant in Singapore, increasing its fragrance manufacturing capacity in the Asia Pacific region, a main focus of the Company’s continued growth.
IFF Mumbai
IFF opens a new creative center for fragrances and beauty care in Mumbai, India.
Our investment in the 20,000 square-feet facility reflects its long-term commitment to the Indian market and dedication to providing customers there with world-class technology, expertise, service, and products.
IFF Visionaire
IFF once again collaborates with fashion and art publication Visionaire on their 47th edition, TASTE.
Paintings, photographs, and conceptual images are paired with specially-created flavors by IFF’s flavorists.
This is the first time that flavor has ever been used as a pure art medium, without concern for convention or application and detached from its connection to food. Some tastes are easy to identify, while others are highly abstract or conceptual.
Contributors include master chefs Heston Blumenthal and Ferran Adrìa; artists Bruce Weber, Yoko Ono, Vik Muniz, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume; and surfing star Laird Hamilton.
Ottens Flavors
Ottens Flavors expansion of R&D and technical wing of its US facility is completed.
History Timeline-2006
Robert M. Amen (IFF CEO)
Robert M. Amen succeeds Richard A. Goldstein as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IFF.
Patrick Suskind's “Perfume”
IFF partners with Constantin Films and Thierry Mugler Parfums to bring fragrances to life in the film version of Patrick Suskind's novel “Perfume.” IFF created a coffret containing 15 fragrances that explore unique emotions, poised between fantasy and reality, and revealed in atmospheres which capture history, mystery and passion.
MK Ottens Flavors
Mk Ottens Flavors is formed in a partnership with MK Flavors, Mexico.
History Timeline-2009
IFF Shanghai
IFF opens new Shanghai Creative Center, located at The North in the Putuo district of Shanghai.
The center provides an attractive and customer-focused environment for flavor and fragrance creation.
IFF Brazil
IFF opens new, state-of-the-art Flavor and Fragrance Creative Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The location improves customer access and interaction, while the dual flavor and fragrance center encourages creative synergies benefiting both sides of the business.
CapLock™
IFF announces the completion of a new CapLock™ production line at its European Center of Excellence for Flavor Delivery Systems and Encapsulation in Haverhill, UK.
History Timeline-2010
Douglas D. Tough (IFF CEO)
Douglas D. Tough assumes role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer effective March 1, 2010.
History Timeline-2011
IFF Asia
IFF announces its plans to invest over $100 million in Greater Asia over the next three years.
The investment will be allocated to two new state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities located in Guangzhou, China and Singapore.
Encapsulation
IFF’s unique encapsulation technology wins the 2011 FiFi® Award, the highest honor in the fragrance industry, for Technological Breakthrough of the Year.
IFF Sustainability
IFF publishes its first external sustainability report: Sustainability: The Essence of IFF.
IFF UAE
IFF opens a new state-of-the-art flavor and fragrance facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The new site houses creative and applications labs as well as sales and marketing offices, to better support all categories of flavor and fragrance applications for the unique Middle Eastern market.
History Timeline-2012
IFF Scientific Advisory Board
IFF Establishes Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to escalate innovation.
The SAB comprises five scientific talents in key research and development areas as identified in the company’s global strategic review.
IFF Delhi
IFF opens a new facility in Delhi, India, to house creative, technical, sensory, and sales professionals for the company’s flavors business unit.
IFF Singapore
IFF opens a new higher capacity liquid flavors and fragrances manufacturing plant in Jurong, Singapore to maximize productivity and efficiency while maintaining high product quality.
History Timeline-2013
IFF China
IFF opens Guangzhou, China site, one of its largest and most technically advanced flavors manufacturing facilities built to the highest global standards for food ingredients.
IFF-LMR Naturals
IFF-LMR Naturals wins prestigious organic monitor sustainable beauty award for Sustainable Ingredients for a revolutionary new approach to rose extracts, Rose Water Essential™.
History Timeline-2014
Aromor
IFF Acquires Aromor in 2014 to strengthen its fragrance ingredients and fragrance creation capabilities.
Andreas Fibig (IFF CEO)
Andreas Fibig succeeds Doug Tough as Chairman and CEO of IFF.
History Timeline-2015
IFF Ottens Flavors
IFF acquires Ottens Flavors, a company with complementary capabilities and shared values, to strengthen its North American business presence.
IFF Lucas Meyer Cosmetics
IFF expands its offerings with the acquisition of Lucas Meyer Cosmetics, a cosmetic actives firm based in Canada.
History Timeline-2016
PuraVita™
IFF sets a new benchmark for fragrance sustainability with the release of the first-ever Cradle to Cradle Certified fragrance, PuraVita. The fragrance, which has notes of green apple, wood, apricot and vanilla, is a proof of concept for an innovative approach to sustainable fragrance creation. PuraVita is a model for what can be achieved when perfumers pair creativity with sustainable design principles.
Industry-First On-Site Wind Turbine
IFF launched the flavor and fragrance industry’s first-ever on-site wind turbine at its Tilburg, Netherlands manufacturing facility.
“Our new on-site wind turbine at our Tilburg facility is a big step for us in our exciting journey to lead positive transformational changes as we realize our Vision 2020 business strategy,” said Andreas Fibig, Chairman and CEO of IFF.
The turbine, which has an output of 2.4 megawatts, will produce approximately 6.5 million kWh of renewable electricity per year – the clean energy equivalent of what is needed to power 1,860 households. It is estimated to provide up to 30 percent of the site’s electricity needs, and when combined with purchased green electricity the facility will be powered by 100 percent renewable electricity.
Vetiver Together Partnership
IFF announces partnership to improve the lives of vetiver farming communities in Haiti. The partnership, Vetiver Together, aims to sustainably improve food security, increase yields, and diversify income, while working to support women’s empowerment and environmental conservation.
Vetiver oil is a common ingredient in many fragrances. Haiti produces some of the best vetiver in the world, and many farmers rely on cultivation of the root for their entire source of income. But due to economic pressures, farmers often harvest the roots before they are fully mature, leading to low prices, poor oil yields, deforestation and soil erosion. The partnership helps farmers address these challenges as well as provides training to community members - including in crop and livestock production, soil conservation and nutrition - to help improve social conditions, food security and diversity of farm production.
The project is a strategic social investment that recognizes that improving smallholder and community livelihoods and strengthening the Haitian vetiver supply chain are mutually beneficial. It is supported by the Enhancing Livelihoods Fund – a partnership between Unilever, Oxfam Great Britain and the Ford Foundation, which backs innovative models to improve agricultural practices and which have a positive social impact, particularly for women.
IFF David Michael
IFF acquires David Michael & Company, Inc., well-known in the industry for its vanilla expertise, strength in the Dairy and Beverage categories, and relationships with dynamic, faster-growing middle-market customers.
IFF begins the process of merging David Michael and IFF-Ottens Flavors, acquired in 2015, to further reinforce its differentiated service model in the US for middle-market customers, thus driving growth and strengthening its North American flavors business.
History Timeline-2019
The next era of IFF
IFF adopts a new brand purpose to redefine how we live in and care for the resources of our world. Along with our new mission, we have a new logo and identity that reflects our leadership, future-focus and creativity, while honoring our rich history. We’re looking forward to 200 more years of innovation that transforms what a flavors and fragrances company can stand for.