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Our
company
More than 12,000 employees worldwide are committed to making Symrise a unique company. They develop, produce and distribute a broad range of products that create exciting flavor and fragrance experiences, improve the properties of foods and help promote health and well-being – at more than 100 locations.
Symrise consistently caters to the needs and preferences of its 6,000 customers who go on to supply products to consumers. To this end, the company relies on its innovative strength and creativity, as well as on sustainable and successful business practices. We are also systematically expanding into new markets, enabling us to continue our above-average, profitable growth.
Symrise’s portfolio includes fragrances, flavorings and food ingredients, base and active ingredients for cosmetics, as well as functional ingredients and product solutions that enhance the sensory properties and nutrition of various products. With a current market share of approximately 12 %, we have grown into a leading supplier in the global flavoring, fragrance and nutrition market. Our products are typically key functional ingredients in the end products of our customers, which include perfume, cosmetics and food manufacturers, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of supplements, pet food and baby food. The approximately 35,000 products we manufacture are largely based on natural raw materials such as vanilla, citrus fruits, onions, fish, meat, blossoms and other plant materials.
Our company’s origins go back to the year 1874. Since our initial public offering in 2006, we have grown faster than the market – and largely organically. To achieve this, we have made targeted investments in capacity expansions, in research and development centers, in our distribution network and logistics and in efficient energy supply. We also acquire attractive companies that bring additional expertise into the group and give us access to new market and customer segments. Moreover, we enter into strategic partnerships that enable us to develop innovative products and take them all the way to market maturity.
The Symrise group’s operating business is divided into the two segments Taste, Nutrition & Health and Scent & Care. The divisions within these segments are organized into business units and regions. The group’s Corporate Center is located in Holzminden, Germany, and is home to key functions such as corporate governance and control, communications and administration. Symrise has regional headquarters in France (Rennes), the United States (Teterboro, New Jersey), Brazil (São Paulo) and Singapore.
Our impact
Symrise thinks today about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. And we think and act in multi-dimensional terms, considering all the interactions and connections between business, environment and society. Only in this way can we develop successfully and ensure that all stakeholders benefit from our success.
Business
- Increase the value of our company for shareholders
- Provide reliable debt servicing to lenders
- Finance future-oriented investments through a strong cash flow
Footprint
- Make a contribution to climate protection
- Protect the environment and natural resources
- Preserve biodiversity
- Ensure sustainability in the supply chain
Innovation
- Develop innovations and thus drive progress
- Accelerate digital transformation
Products and product solutions
- Improve our customers’ competitiveness through innovative and creative products and solutions
- Increase the share of sustainably manufactured products
- Tap into new markets, market segments and applications
Care
- Secure and create additional attractive jobs for our employees
- Invest in the education and training of young people
- Improve living conditions in producing countries
- Donate to and sponsor social projects worldwide
Our
resources and results
Our resources
Our results
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Adjusted for one-time effects
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Share of our suppliers defined as strategic in the reporting year who took part in the CDP Supply Chain program
3
Relative to market launch in the past three years
Our resources
Our results
1
Adjusted for one-time effects
2
Share of our suppliers defined as strategic in the reporting year who took part in the CDP Supply Chain program
3
Relative to market launch in the past three years
Our resources
Our results
1
Adjusted for one-time effects
2
Share of our suppliers defined as strategic in the reporting year who took part in the CDP Supply Chain program
3
Relative to market launch in the past three years
Our resources
Our results
1
Adjusted for one-time effects
2
Share of our suppliers defined as strategic in the reporting year who took part in the CDP Supply Chain program
3
Relative to market launch in the past three years
Our resources
Our results
1
Adjusted for one-time effects
2
Share of our suppliers defined as strategic in the reporting year who took part in the CDP Supply Chain program
3
Relative to market launch in the past three years
Our value creation
In the past five years from 2019 to 2023, we have generated cumulative sales of € 19,893,439 billion. Our value creation amounted to a total of € 7,082,728 billion, equating to a return on sales of 35.6 %. If we are to achieve our future goals, we must continue to operate sustainably and successfully. To this end, we rely on our proven and future-oriented business model, under which we use a variety of resources to create value for numerous stakeholder groups. We are very much aware that, as a globally active group of companies, we have a responsibility to fulfill. It is crucial that we put the capital entrusted to us to profitable use, that we use the natural resources at the heart of our business efficiently while at the same time ensuring their conservation, and that we champion both the well-being of our employees and social causes. In this way, we can steadily increase our value creation while continuing to fulfill our responsibility to the environment and society.
Value added
2019 – 2023 in € thousand
Value added
2019 – 2023 in € thousand
Use
2019 – 2023 in € thousand
Use
2019 – 2023 in € thousand
Our application areas
