Profile  A leading international supplier of innovative flavors and fragrances Symrise AG is one of the world's leading companies in the fragrance and flavor industry with origins that go back to 1874. Its range includes products that are essential features of everyday life today. They are used by perfume, cosmetics and food manufacturers. Symrise also has impressive innovative skills based on intensive research and development work. The company has focussed on the development of innovative trend and lifestyle products with a specific additional benefit for the consumer. Symrise is one of the four biggest suppliers on the global market for fragrances and flavors and currently holds a market share of 10 per cent. The company develops and produces more than 30,000 products from around 10,000 raw materials; we sell these products in some 160 countries. We generated roughly 40% of our sales in rapidly growing emerging markets. Sales and earnings development in 2009 Symrise generated sales of EUR 1362 million in 2009, compared with EUR 1320 million in the previous year. This corresponds to a growth rate of 2.7 per cent, which is higher than the market as a whole. Earnings before taxes, depreciation, amortisation and restructuring (normalized EBITDA) were EUR 265.4 million, compared with EUR 262.5 in 2008. This means that the normalized EBITDA return amounts to 19.5%. You will find further financial information in the Reports section. |
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