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
28/03/2025
Currency CHF
Previous Close 3,833.00
Change (%) 0.87
Volume 21,922
Number of Shares 123,375,149
Market Cap (mln) 35,392
Key figures
For the year ended 31 December, in millions of Swiss francs, except for employees 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Sales and results      
Group sales 7,412 6,915 7,117 6,684 6,322
Taste & Wellbeing 3,752 3,603 3,861 3,593 3,398
Fragrances & Beauty 3,660 3,312 3,256 3,091 2,924
Like-for-like sales growth1 12.3% 4.1% 5.3% 7.1% 4.0%
Gross profit 3,271 2,846 2,762 2,855 2,659
as % of sales 44.1% 41.2% 38.8% 42.7% 42.1%
EBITDA2 1,765 1,473 1,476 1,482 1,397
as % of sales 23.8% 21.3% 20.7% 22.2% 22.1%
Operating income 1,394 1,116 1,112 1,089 996
as % of sales 18.8% 16.1% 15.6% 16.3% 15.8%
Net income 1,090 893 856 821 743
as % of sales 14.7% 12.9% 12.0% 12.3% 11.8%
Balance sheet and cash flows          
Operating cash flow 1,625 1,373 948 1,288 1,189
as % of sales 21.9% 19.9% 13.3% 19.3% 18.8%
Free cash flow 1,158 920 479 843 811
as % of sales 15.6% 13.3% 6.7% 12.6% 12.8%
Leverage ratio 46% 51% 51% 51% 50%
Share          
Cash dividend(CHF) 70 68 67 66 64
Earnings per share – basic (CHF) 118.17 96.81 92.83 89.03 80.59
Employees          
Number of employees as at 31 December (FTE) 16,942 16,263 16,676 16,458 15,851

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.