18 Strategic value creation Expanding our capabilities and moving closer to our customers
Expanding our capabilities and moving closer to our customers Acquisitions
In both divisions, our acquisitions are fully aligned with our 2020 strategic priorities: Naturals, Health and well-being, Active Beauty, Integrated Solutions, local and regional customers.
April 2019
Cosmetics business of AMSilk
Active Beauty
Strengthening Active Beauty’s global capabilities in sustainable biopolymers.
New site openings
May 2019
August 2019
Albert Vieille
Naturals | Aromatherapy Further growing our leadership in the Naturals space for the Fragrance Division.
Fragrance Oils
Fragrances
Expanding our capabilities in serving local and regional customers.
Flavours production site in Pune Inaugurated in 2019, our new Flavours production facility in Pune, India enables us to meet growing demand from customers in the food and beverage and health care
segments. The CHF 60 million plant is our largest investment in India.
Fragrance encapsulation centre in Singapore We opened our newest fragrance encapsulation centre in Singapore for the Asia Pacific market, offering
New flavour centre in Casablanca We opened a new flavour technical and commercial centre in Casablanca, Morocco, enabling us to meet the evolving needs of our food and beverage customers for innovative taste and flavour solutions. Through our local presence, customers will benefit from a faster response as well as access to a wider range of Givaudan’s global capabilities in flavours and extracts.
Givaudan – 2019 Integrated Annual Report
customers based in Asia with a complete range of olfactives using the best quality encapsulates for their home and personal care brands. The CHF 15 million facility further supports Givaudan's growth ambitions in the region and complements the creative and manufacturing facilities opened in Singapore in 2015.
