Symrise
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Holzminden, Germany
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Animal feed, Consumer health & consumer effects, Alternative proteins, Food reformulation, Supply chain monitoring & traceability, Waste efficiency, Arable farming, Crop / plant science, Sensory & consumer research, Circular economy
- Domains
- Pet food, Beverages, Processed food products, Feed, Ingredients, Aromas, Colours, Dairy ingredients
- Technologies
- Extraction, Encapsulation, Fermentation, Resource-recovery technology, Processing, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Circular & resource technologies, Platform technology
About Symrise
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, cosmetic active ingredients, and functional ingredients for customers in the perfume, cosmetics, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, dietary supplement, and pet food industries. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, the group operates in more than 100 locations across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, North America, and Latin America.
The company positions itself as a partner that helps customers develop market-ready concepts for everyday consumer products. Its business model combines consumer insight, R&D, sourcing, and manufacturing, with a strong emphasis on sustainability, circular economy principles, and responsible sourcing across the value chain.
Core Values
- Sustainability: Symrise presents sustainability as integral to its business model, with a focus on resource-friendly processes, circular economy principles, and reducing environmental footprint across sourcing and production.
- Innovation: The company emphasizes R&D, cross-divisional collaboration, and technology-driven solutions such as green chemistry, biotechnology, and AI-supported product development.
- Customer partnership: Symrise highlights close collaboration with customers, using consumer insights and application expertise to create market-ready concepts tailored to local and global needs.
- Responsibility: The company stresses responsibility toward customers, employees, society, and the environment, including responsible sourcing and long-term value creation.
Unique Aspects
- Broad portfolio beyond traditional flavors and fragrances: Symrise has expanded into adjacent growth areas such as pet food, baby food, probiotics, and cosmetic actives, giving it a wider platform than a pure flavor-and-fragrance supplier.
- Strong global footprint: The group serves customers from more than 100 locations and sells into 150+ countries, supporting both global accounts and local market adaptation.
- Circular-economy and sourcing capabilities: Symrise emphasizes full side-stream valorization, by-product use, and direct sourcing relationships, including long-term vanilla sourcing in Madagascar and other responsible sourcing programs.
- Portfolio management through recent divestment: In September 2026, Symrise agreed to divest its Terpene Ingredients business, AmeriTerpenes LLC, to Mutares, reflecting active portfolio sharpening under the ONE Symrise strategy.
- Recent premium naturals expansion: In July 2026, Symrise signed a put option agreement to acquire Floral Concept, a French premium natural ingredients house, to strengthen its position in premium natural fragrance ingredients.