Givaudan Investor fact sheet
Market: Swiss Stock Exchange
Symbol: GIVN
ISIN: CH0010645932
Industry : Consumer Staples

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 10% 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
22/09/2023
Currency CHF
Previous Close 2,967.00
Change (%) 0.64
Volume 18,534
Number of Shares 123,375,149
Market Cap (mln) 27,396
Key figures
For the year ended 31 December, in millions of Swiss francs, except for employees 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
Sales and results  
Group sales 7,117 6,684 6,322 6,203 5,527
Taste & Wellbeing 3,861 3,593 3,398 3,404 3,002
Fragrances & Beauty 3,256 3,091 2,924 2,799 2,525
Like-for-like sales growth1 5.3% 7.1% 4.0% 5.8% 5.6%
Gross profit 2,762 2,855 2,659 2,530 2,329
as % of sales 38.8% 42.7% 42.1% 40.8% 42.1%
EBITDA2 1,476 1,482 1,397 1,275 1,145
as % of sales 20.7% 22.2% 22.1% 20.6% 20.7%
Operating income 1,112 1,089 996 920 883
as % of sales 15.6% 16.3% 15.8% 14.8% 16.0%
Net income 856 821 743 702 663
as % of sales 12.0% 12.3% 11.8% 11.3% 12.0%
Balance sheet and cash flows        
Operating cash flow 948 1,288 1,189 1,136 916
as % of sales 13.3% 19.3% 18.8% 18.3% 16.6%
Free cash flow 479 843 811 787 703
as % of sales 6.7% 12.6% 12.8% 12.7% 12.7%
Leverage ratio 51% 51% 50% 47% 41%
Share        
Cash dividend3 (CHF) 67 66 64 62 60
Earnings per share – basic (CHF) 92.83 89.03 80.59 76.17 71.92
Employees        
Number of employees as at 31 December (FTE) 16,676 16,842 15,852 14,969 13,598

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.
3. 2022 dividend approved by shareholders at the AGM on 23 March 2023