Givaudan Fragrance hub
Singapore
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The Fragrance Creative Centre and Perfumery School campus
• Givaudan’s biggest investment for the Fragrance business opens its most modern
creative centre and production site in Singapore on 7 October 2015.
• The world renowned Givaudan Perfumery School opens its second and only campus
outside France and is the first of its kind in Singapore and Asia Pacific. It will be housed
under the creative centre.
• The new site employs more than 170 people from varied and diverse cultures. The local
campus of the prestigious Perfumery School will have an annual intake of two to three
Asian students per year.
• The creative centre will pioneer research and technology facilities that will build on the
best of Givaudan’s capabilities in fragrance technologies and sensory understanding.
This infrastructure will serve as an innovation and collaboration centre which will
provide fragrance solutions, enabling customers to go to market faster.
Production and warehouse capabilities
• Specialised large batch fragrance production site will deploy state-of-the-art
compounding technology with a very high degree of automation, increasing speed
and capacity for customers in South East Asia and beyond.
• The site will produce fragrances for personal and homecare products such as shower
and hair care products, deodorants, laundry detergents, dishwashing liquids and
fabric conditioners.
• The factory capacity is approximately 10,000 tonnes per annum with capacity for
future expansion.
• The production site in Singapore primarily, but not exclusively, serves customer orders
across South East Asia.
Givaudan in Singapore
• First opened in Singapore in 1992 with a small sales office.
• Expanded to open fragrance production facility in 1995.
• Affluent, influential and logistically connected, Singapore was selected to be the
Givaudan fragrance hub of Asia Pacific.
• The new creative centre in Singapore will add to Givaudan’s portfolio in Asia Pacific,
where the Fragrance Division facilities network includes Shanghai (China), Yokohama
(Japan), Jigani (India), Cimanggis (Indonesia), and Singapore.
• Number of Givaudan employees in Singapore: over 550.
Givaudan Fragrance hub
Singapore
Corporate information
Givaudan Fragrance Division
• Trusted fragrance partner to prestige brands and consumer goods manufacturers
worldwide.
• Three business categories: Fine Fragrances, Consumer Products and Fragrance and
Cosmetic Ingredients.
• Givaudan employs approximately 25% of perfumers worldwide.
• The Givaudan Perfumery School is dedicated to the heritage of our industry since 1946.
• Acquired active cosmetics companies, Soliance in 2014 and Induchem in August
2015. Both bring strong complementary capabilities in the areas of innovative, active
cosmetic ingredients and solutions.
Givaudan
• Givaudan is market leader in the global fragrance and flavour industry.
• Head office in Switzerland.
• More than 9,700 employees.
• Present in 88 locations; 34 production sites around the world.
• 2014 group sales: CHF 4.4 billion of which 46% was accounted for in developing
markets. 48% was Fragrance sales (CHF 2.1 billion).