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“We are very pleased with our continued good sales performance in the first nine months of 2025, against very strong prior year comparables. The natural hedges of Givaudan continue to support our strong performance across business segments, geographies and customer groups, despite the ongoing geopolitical, trade and macroeconomic challenges. Givaudan remains highly focused on supporting our customers’ growth in developing innovative products which consumers love.”
Gilles Andrier, CEO
In the first nine months of 2025 Givaudan recorded sales of CHF 5,743 million, an increase of 5.7% on a like-for-like¹ (LFL) basis and an increase of 1.7% in Swiss francs.
Givaudan continued the first nine months of the year with good volume growth and maintained its operations and global supply chain at a high level.
With higher input costs in 2025, including tariffs, the Company is implementing price increases in collaboration with its customers to fully compensate for the increases in input costs.
The good growth was supported by the 8.1% LFL in the high growth markets, the continued outperformance of local and regional customers across the group and the sustained strong performance of Fine Fragrance.
Fragrance & Beauty sales were CHF 2,923 million, an increase of 8.0% LFL and an increase of 5.1% in Swiss francs.
On a business unit basis, Fine Fragrance sales increased by 18.7% LFL against a high prior year comparable growth of 17.8%, and Consumer Products sales increased by 5.9% LFL against a strong prior year comparable growth of 15.9%. Sales of Fragrance Ingredients and Active Beauty increased by 1.5% LFL, with strong double-digit growth in Active Beauty offset by weaker performance in Fragrance Ingredients.
Taste & Wellbeing sales were CHF 2,820 million, an increase of 3.4% LFL and a decrease of -1.5% in Swiss francs.
On a regional basis, sales increased in South Asia, Middle East and Africa by 8.8% LFL, in Europe by 3.8% LFL, in North America by 3.9% LFL and in Latin America by 3.1% LFL. Sales decreased in Asia Pacific by -0.5% LFL. Within the product segments, there was broad based good growth in health care, snacks, sweet goods, and in dairy.
Our 2025 strategy, ‘Committed to Growth, with Purpose’, is our intention to deliver growth in partnership with our customers, through creating inspiring products for happier, healthier lives and having a positive impact on nature, people and communities.
Ambitious targets are an integral part of this strategy, with the Company aiming to achieve organic sales growth of 4–5% on a like-for-like basis and free cash flow2 of at least 12%, both measured as an average over the five-year period strategy cycle. In addition, we aim to deliver on key non-financial targets around sustainability, diversity and safety, linked to Givaudan’s purpose.
With average like-for-like sales growth of 7.2% for the period 2021–2024 and the continued strong like-for-like growth in the first nine months of 2025 of 5.7%, Givaudan is highly likely to exceed the upper end of its average five-year sales growth target of 4–5% on a like-for-like basis for the period 2021–2025.
Our bold and ambitious long-term purpose goals are defined in four domains: creations, nature, people and communities. Our ambitions include doubling our business through creations that contribute to happier, healthier lives by 2030, becoming climate positive before 2050, becoming a leading employer for inclusion before 2025 and sourcing all materials and services in a way that protects the environment and people by 2030.
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Claudia Pedretti, Head of Investor and Media Relations
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2025 |
2024 |
||||
January to September |
Group |
Fragrance |
Taste & |
Group |
Fragrance |
Taste & |
Sales as reported |
5,743 |
2,923 |
2,820 |
5,644 |
2,782 |
2,862 |
– growth in CHF (%) |
1.7% |
5.1% |
-1.5% |
7.2% |
10.8% |
3.9% |
like-for-like¹ (%) |
5.7% |
8.0% |
3.4% |
13.0% |
15.6% |
10.7% |
Acquisition impact (net) (a) |
41 |
42 |
-1 |
17 |
26 |
-9 |
– acquisition impact (net) (%) |
0.7% |
1.5% |
0.0% |
0.3% |
1.0% |
-0.3% |
Currency effects |
-262 |
-123 |
-139 |
-324 |
-146 |
-178 |
– currency effects (%) |
-4.7% |
-4.4% |
-4.9% |
-6.1% |
-5.8% |
-6.5% |
(a) Acquisitions and divestments
|
2025 |
2024 |
||||
January to September |
Group |
Fragrance |
Taste & |
Group |
Fragrance |
Taste & |
Acquisitions and divestments |
41 |
42 |
-1 |
17 |
26 |
-9 |
– Vollmens |
2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
– b.kolor |
40 |
40 |
|
20 |
20 |
|
– Amyris |
|
|
|
6 |
6 |
|
– Discontinued and disposed business |
-1 |
|
-1 |
-9 |
|
-9 |
|
2025 |
2024 |
||||
Quarter only |
Group |
Fragrance |
Taste & |
Group |
Fragrance |
Taste & |
Sales as reported |
1,879 |
968 |
911 |
1,907 |
956 |
951 |
– growth in CHF (%) |
-1.5% |
1.3% |
-4.3% |
10.2% |
13.9% |
6.8% |
– like-for-like¹ (%) |
4.4% |
6.8% |
2.1% |
14.1% |
16.0% |
12.4% |
Acquisition impact (net) (b) |
2 |
2 |
|
19 |
20 |
-1 |
– acquisition impact (net) (%) |
0.1% |
0.2% |
0.0% |
1.1% |
2.4% |
-0.1% |
Currency effects |
-115 |
-55 |
-60 |
-87 |
-37 |
-50 |
– currency effects (%) |
-6.0% |
-5.7% |
-6.4% |
-5.0% |
-4.5% |
-5.5% |
(b) Acquisitions and divestments
|
2025 |
2024 |
||||
Quarter only |
Group |
Fragrance |
Taste & |
Group |
Fragrance |
Taste & |
Acquisitions and divestments |
2 |
2 |
|
19 |
20 |
-1 |
– Vollmens |
2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
– b.kolor |
|
|
|
20 |
20 |
|
– Discontinued and disposed business |
|
|
|
-1 |
|
-1 |
|
2025 |
2024 |
January to September |
Sales growth LFL¹ |
Sales growth LFL¹ |
Fragrance & Beauty |
8.0% |
15.6% |
– Fine Fragrance |
18.7% |
17.8% |
– Consumer Products |
5.9% |
15.9% |
– Fragrance Ingredients and Active Beauty |
1.5% |
10.8% |
Taste & Wellbeing |
3.4% |
10.7% |
– Europe |
3.8% |
6.3% |
– South Asia, Middle East and Africa |
8.8% |
17.9% |
– North America |
3.9% |
5.1% |
– Latin America |
3.1% |
28.9% |
– Asia Pacific |
-0.5% |
10.1% |
|
2025 |
2024 |
||||
January to September |
Sales |
LFL¹ % |
CHF % |
Sales |
LFL¹ % |
CHF % |
LATAM |
643 |
5.7% |
-4.3% |
672 |
29.5% |
5.7% |
APAC |
1,366 |
4.6% |
-0.5% |
1,373 |
12.1% |
7.0% |
NOAM |
1,328 |
3.5% |
0.3% |
1,323 |
5.7% |
3.9% |
EAME |
2,406 |
7.6% |
5.7% |
2,276 |
13.1% |
9.8% |
High growth markets |
2,787 |
8.1% |
6.5% |
2,618 |
20.9% |
10.5% |
Mature markets |
2,956 |
3.4% |
-2.4% |
3,026 |
6.6% |
4.5% |
Total Group |
5,743 |
5.7% |
1.7% |
5,644 |
13.0% |
7.2% |
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