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Read moreThe rise of 'pet parenting'
How to stay at the forefront of an evolving pet food and pet care industry.
Read moreGreen chemistry: the power and the possibilities
Transforming natural and renewable by-products into high quality ingredients. From orange peel to oral care. Production of authentic-tasting concentrates.
Read moreCracking the Code of Nature
It’s six-thirty on a Tuesday evening and William, a content strategist in London, is waiting patiently to maneuver his shopping kart into the first aisles of his busy, local supermarket.
Read moreUnfolding Strengths
The 2017 fiscal year was the twelfth consecutive year in which Symrise grew profitably. CEO Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Bertram continues to look to the future with optimism.
Read moreBergamot à la Symrise
For Symrise, responsible operations and business success go hand in hand. To achieve its sustainability objectives, the company has first turned its attention to its more than 10,000 raw materials sourced from all over the world, among other things.
Read moreEntrepreneurial Spirit and Innovation
Symrise bought the British company Cobell because it fits perfectly into the corporate strategy. The fruit and vegetable juice supplier has excellent access to and vast knowledge about natural raw materials.
Read moreAll about the Berries
Cranberries have been known to be beneficial for one’s health for centuries. They are said to provide cell protection as antioxidants and to help preventing urinary tract and bladder infections.
Read moreFine fish food
Fish is popular, and stocks are dwindling. As an alternative to wild-caught fish, more and more of the animals in the market are from aquaculture.
Read moreHelp for Learning and Life
The Symrise subsidiary at the Indian site in Chennai has been supporting the Government Higher Secondary School Sholinganallur for the past 2 years.
Read moreResponsible Diversity
The finest perfumes and household cleaners require fragrances that smell as good as possible for as long as possible. In addition to being safe for people and the environment, they should be sustainable and increasingly manufactured using green chemistry methods.
Read moreSustainable HR Work
Over the years, Symrise HR employees at all of the sites around the world have increasingly aligned their work with the company’s sustainability strategy.
Read moreSmall Ideas, Huge Effects
Symrise achieved the ambitious climate goals it had set itself for 2020 four years ahead of schedule. The company isn’t resting on these laurels, though, as is evident from the many awards and certifications.
Read moreQueen of the Kitchen
About 8 % of all Symrise products contain onion juice concentrates or onion extract as a highly aromatic ingredient. It is an important raw material – and its significance continues to grow.
Read moreHow is Symrise “diversifying success and successfully diversifying”?
Symrise has set itself some ambitious goals in terms of business development.
Read moreHuman resources - an interview with Dr. Iñigo Natzel
Approximately 5,400 employees – which is 80 % of staff – took part in the large-scale Symrise employee engagement survey in 2016. That alone is a huge success, according to Dr. Iñigo Natzel.
Read moreThe Fragrance of Forests
The acquisition of the US company Renessenz as part of Pinova Holdings is taking Symrise’s Aroma Molecules division to new levels.
Read moreEverything’s bananas!
Diana Food produces high-quality fruit and vegetable powders, flakes and purees in Ecuador.
Read morePartnership for Outstanding Products
Farmers in northern France are growing red beets by the truckload.
Read moreWASH in School
Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Bertram (standing, 8th from the right), CEO of Symrise, visited the project during his travels through Asia.
Read moreOf bees and biodiversity
Symrise maintains a bee colony not far from its headquarters in Holzminden.
Read moreNew Raw Materials and Products Sourced from Nature’s Diversity
Symrise has been sourcing its vanilla directly from growers in Madagascar since 2004, and is committed to supporting the farmers there.
Read moreFragrances for the world
For those who wear them, perfumes are more than just a fine fragrance.
Read moreSharing Values and Goals
Symrise and Natura are two companies that operate according to the same principles.
Read moreSustainability in Pictures
Diana held a photo competition with the categories “humans and the environment,” “climate,” “proximity and local dynamism,” “responsible consumption” and “renewable energies” in connection with the European Sustainable Development Week in early June 2015.
Read moreThe whole is greater than the sum of its parts
When teams from different areas collaborate, successful and forward-looking projects are often the result.
Read moreEndless Diversity
For the past two years, Symrise has been actively identifying new raw materials in northern Brazil and developing products from them for the global cosmetics market.
Read moreLatino America
In a few decades, Hispanic-Americans will become the largest ethnic group in the United States.
Read morePerfect Addition
In January 2016, Symrise acquired the US-based company Pinova Holdings and its subsidiaries Pinova and Renessenz.
Read moreRendezvous
The successful integration of Diana into the Symrise Group was not a sure thing: Two globally operating companies with different technologies, products and customers had to come together and develop common goals, processes and strategies.
Read moreA Science in Its Own Right
How to increase the performance of pet food? This is the question Diana Pet Food experts ask themselves every day.
Read moreInnovative Spirit
At Symrise, a lot of great ideas are born when people work together each day on the same project.
Read moreRefreshing, innovative and moving towards a healthier product range
For the drinks in the IKEA store beverage stations, Symrise developed eight mixtures of natural flavors and extracts that provide refreshment and new tastes with 50 % less sugar and fewer calories.
Read moreCrossing Boundaries
More than 120 employees at Symrise are currently working at sites outside their home countries.