dsm-firmenich
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Maastricht, Netherlands
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Food ingredients & products, Food reformulation, Consumer health & consumer effects, Food safety & quality, Animal feed, Bio-energy & biomaterials, Food ingredients
- Domains
- Feed, Ingredients
- Technologies
- Extraction, Processing, Fermentation, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Enzyme technology, Encapsulation, Decision support software, Smart & digital
About dsm-firmenich
dsm-firmenich is a Swiss company with dual headquarters in Kaiseraugst, Switzerland and Maastricht, the Netherlands. It positions itself as a leading creation and innovation partner in nutrition, health, and beauty, combining science, technology, and a broad portfolio of ingredients and solutions to serve consumer, patient, and industrial customers.
Across its businesses, the company develops and supplies flavors, fragrances, nutritional ingredients, health solutions, and customized product concepts. Its website emphasizes co-creation with customers, purpose-led science, and a market approach focused on making products that are essential for life, desirable for consumers, and more sustainable for people and the planet.
Core Values
- Purpose-led science: The company repeatedly frames its work around science that solves real-world needs in nutrition, health, and beauty, rather than ingredients alone.
- Sustainability: Sustainability is presented as fundamental to the business, with emphasis on renewable ingredients, responsible sourcing, lower-carbon operations, and solutions that are better for people and planet.
- Co-creation and customer partnership: dsm-firmenich highlights close collaboration with customers to move products from concept to shelf and to tailor solutions to specific market needs.
- Innovation: The company stresses pioneering science, technological capability, and continuous innovation across its ingredient and solution portfolio.
Unique Aspects
- Combination of DSM and Firmenich heritage: The company builds on a 150-year heritage and combines capabilities from both legacy businesses into one platform spanning nutrition, health, and beauty.
- Global scale: Known news describes the company as operating in almost 60 countries with revenues of more than €12 billion and a workforce of nearly 30,000 employees.
- Strategic portfolio reshaping: In 2026, dsm-firmenich announced an agreement to divest its Animal Nutrition & Health business to CVC for an enterprise value of about €2.2 billion, while retaining a 20% equity stake in the divested business.
- Shareholder returns and capital actions: The company completed a €1.08 billion share buyback program in 2025 and cancelled 12,049,441 shares, reducing issued shares by about 4.5%.
- Sustainability milestones: The company reported achieving 100% purchased renewable electricity and highlighted biomass-based steam and heat sourcing in several countries as part of its emissions-reduction program.