Givaudan Investor Fact Sheet
Market: Swiss Stock Exchange
Symbol: GIVN
ISIN: CH0010645932
Industry : Specialty Chemical

Creating for happier, healthier lives with love for nature

Givaudan is a global industry leader creating game-changing innovation in food and beverages, and inspiring creations in the world of scent and beauty. With our two business activities, Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty, we provide customers with a broad range of solutions that match consumer demands for clean label, organic and natural ingredients and meet their sustainability expectations and demand for greater transparency. Our value proposition reflects the Company’s purpose of creating for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature.

We maintain our leadership position – approximately 25% of our industry’s global market share – by challenging ourselves daily, inspiring our partnerships across the globe and serving our customers with heart and soul.

Passion and performance through time

With a heritage that stretches back over 250 years, Givaudan has a long history of innovating scents and tastes. Creativity is at the heart of our operations, and the power to surprise is brought about by having a renowned collection of experts, passionate flavourists and perfumers under one roof.

Committed to innovation and sustainable growth

At the forefront of innovation, with 7.5% of annual turnover invested in research, we explore and uncover new and exciting ingredients and technologies to add to our vast palettes and portfolios.

As a company that uses many natural ingredients, we operate a sustainable business model that creates value for the many stakeholders we work with. We co-create and collaborate with our customers and partners to innovate and develop game-changing products and solutions. Our intention is to increase our positive impact on the world by innovating sustainable solutions while showing our love for nature and leading the way to improve happiness and health for people.

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Share data
05/12/2024
Currency CHF
Previous Close 3,914.00
Change (%) 0.18
Volume 12,942
Number of Shares 123,375,149
Market Cap (mln) 36,140
Key figures
For the year ended 31 December, in millions of Swiss francs, except for employees 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Sales and results    
Group sales 6,915 7,117 6,684 6,322 6,203
Taste & Wellbeing 3,603 3,861 3,593 3,398 3,404
Fragrances & Beauty 3,312 3,256 3,091 2,924 2,799
Like-for-like sales growth1 4.1% 5.3% 7.1% 4.0% 5.8%
Gross profit 2,846 2,762 2,855 2,659 2,530
as % of sales 41.2% 38.8% 42.7% 42.1% 40.8%
EBITDA2 1,473 1,476 1,482 1,397 1,275
as % of sales 21.3% 20.7% 22.2% 22.1% 20.6%
Operating income 1,116 1,112 1,089 996 920
as % of sales 16.1% 15.6% 16.3% 15.8% 14.8%
Net income 893 856 821 743 702
as % of sales 12.9% 12.0% 12.3% 11.8% 11.3%
Balance sheet and cash flows          
Operating cash flow 1,373 948 1,288 1,189 1,136
as % of sales 19.9% 13.3% 19.3% 18.8% 18.3%
Free cash flow 920 479 843 811 787
as % of sales 13.3% 6.7% 12.6% 12.8% 12.7%
Leverage ratio 51% 51% 51% 50% 47%
Share          
Cash dividend(CHF) 68 67 66 64 62
Earnings per share – basic (CHF) 96.81 92.83 89.03 80.59 76.17
Employees          
Number of employees as at 31 December (FTE) 16,263 16,676 16,458 15,851 14,969

1. Like-for-like excludes the impact of currency, acquisitions and disposals.
2. EBITDA defined as Earnings Before Interest (and other financial income (expense), net), Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation corresponds to operating income before depreciation, amortisation and impairment of long-lived assets.