Israeli flavors and fine products company Frutarom has been taking over similar businesses all over the world for several years (see here).  However, it has now been swallowed up by the mighty US Flavors & Fragrances Inc (IFF) for a … Continue reading →

Israeli flavors and fine ingredients company Frutarom has just bought Israel’s IBR (Israeli Biotechnology Research) for $21 million – Frutarom’s 32nd acquisition since 2015. IBR produces active ingredients for cosmetics and dietary supplements. http://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3731151,00.html

Israel’s Frutarom has bought Poland’s Fabryka Substancji Zapachowych Pollena-Aroma, one of Poland’s leading producers of ingredients for the aromatherapy and natural cosmetics industries. It has also taken a 51% stake in Brazil’s savory solutions maker Bremil Industria. http://shares.telegraph.co.uk/news/article.php?id=5788599&epic=FRUT https://www.foodbev.com/news/frutarom-buys-51-brazils-bremil-industria-31m/

Israeli flavors and fine ingredients company Frutarom has made its ninth takeover of 2017. It has bought Israel’s Enzymotec – producer of InFat infant formula and other nutrition products. Enzymotec has around 100 registered patents and adds to Frutarom’s 79 … Continue reading →

Israeli flavors and fine ingredients company Frutarom has purchased a majority stake in Vietnamese company Western Flavors Fragrances Production (WFF). Frutarom intends to build a modern new flavors plant in Ho Chi Minh City and to expand its activity in … Continue reading →

Israel’s flavors and natural specialty fine ingredients company Frutarom has signed an agreement for the purchase of René Laurent of France with activity also in Morocco for approximately $ 21.3 million (Euro 20 million). It gives Frutarom its first local … Continue reading →

Israeli flavors company, Frutarom, has purchased 75% of Piasa Group, Mexico’s leading local company for savory solutions, for approximately $20.5 million.  It is Frutarom’s eighth acquisition of 2016. http://ir.frutarom.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=185607&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2221247

Israeli flavors company Frutarom continues to expand by purchasing Irish savory taste solutions firm Redbrook for 40 million Euros.  Redbrook doubled growth in 3 years to 22.7 million Euros.  It is Frutarom’s sixth acquisition of 2016. http://www.frutarom.com/FrutaromNew/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=178&FID=618&PID=889&IID=2341

Israel’s Frutarom has paid $8.2 million for Germany’s Extrakt Chemie – maker of natural extracts including some used to treat liver diseases, digestive problems and prevent infections.  Frutarom’s fifth acquisition of 2016 is active in Denmark, Switzerland, France, Austria and … Continue reading →

Israeli flavors and natural ingredients company Frutarom has made its second acquisition of 2016 following 12 takeovers in 2015 and 29 in five years. It has now bought US ingredients company Grow for $20 million. Grow has an R&D and … Continue reading →