IFF said the divestiture will leave a company that is more focused, stronger financially and better able to achieve its growth and profitability objectives.
The sale of the food ingredients business continues a recent pattern of IFF shedding assets, following the $26.2 billion purchase in 2021 of DuPont’s nutrition business. During the last several years, IFF said it sold 13 non-core businesses, generating nearly $10 billion in gross proceeds.
“This transaction represents an important strategic milestone in our ongoing portfolio optimization initiative, allowing us to further concentrate resources on our higher-growth, higher-margin segments,” Erik Fyrwald, IFF’s CEO, said in a statement.
The sale is expected to close by the end of the second quarter of 2027. Once completed, IFF will have three core businesses: scent, taste, and health and biosciences. The taste segment, which accrued $2.5 billion in sales in 2025, provides flavor solutions to food and beverage companies.
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by Christopher Doering
Source: fooddive.com
Borouge International has appointed Roland Janssen as CCO, effective 1 October 2026, as the company continues to advance its integration and growth priorities. Janssen will be based at Borouge International’s headquarters in Vienna and succeeds Stefan Doboczky, who is leaving the company to pursue a new opportunity.
Inge Massen-Biemans will become Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) effective November 1, 2026. Inge will report directly to Dimitri de Vreeze, CEO of dsm-firmenich. She succeeds Katharina Stenholm, who has decided to step down from the role at the end of 2026 to pursue other interests, after developing and executing the company’s sustainability program over the past three years.
The Hamburg site supplies products for the cosmetics and personal care industry and the Bitterfeld site produces chlorosilanes, the company said, adding that these businesses will continue, concentrated mainly at larger German sites.
