Givaudan secures CDP supplier engagement A rating as scope 3 emissions stabilise
Givaudan, the Swiss flavour and fragrance company, has secured a place on the CDP Supplier Engagement Assessment (SEA) Leaderboard for the second consecutive year, achieving an A rating for its work engaging supply chain partners on climate action. The recognition, announced on 19 May 2026, coincides with a notable milestone in the company’s emissions trajectory: the stabilisation of scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions in 2025, even as the business continued to expand.
CDP’s annual SEA evaluates how effectively companies work with their suppliers to address climate-related risks and oppor-tunities. For Givaudan, the materiality of that engagement is considerable. With more than 90% of its emissions attributed to the supply chain, supplier collaboration sits at the core of its decarbonisation strategy rather than at the periphery.
“With more than 90% of our emissions coming from our supply chain, collaboration with our suppliers is not just part of our strategy, it’s essential to achieving our ambition to reach net-zero GHG emissions across our value chain by 2045,” said Christian Stammkoetter, who took up the role of CEO in March 2026. “Stabilising our scope 3 emissions in 2025 – even as our business continued to grow – marked a defining moment in this journey, proving that real progress is possible when ambition is matched with action and partnership across our entire value chain.”
Net-zero pathway and regulatory alignment
Givaudan’s net-zero targets were validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) in January 2025, and in November of that year the company published its Net-Zero Transition Plan, setting out the detailed roadmap to its 2045 target. The company has also held a CDP A rating for climate action for seven consecutive years, reflecting sustained performance across disclosure, awareness, management, and leadership criteria.
On scope 1 and 2 emissions, Givaudan reports achieving a 50% reduction against its 2015 baseline, a target reached during the 2021-2025 strategic cycle. The company purchased 820,137 MWh of renewable electricity in 2025, up from 626,489 MWh
in 2024.
Financial performance and Taste & Wellbeing
Full-year 2025 group sales reached CHF 7,472 million, representing like-for-like growth of 5.1% against a strong prior-year comparable. The Taste & Wellbeing division, which serves food and beverage manu-facturers across categories including savoury, sweet goods, dairy, snacks, beverages, and nutraceuticals, recorded sales of CHF 3,642 million, a 2.4% like-for-like increase. Regional growth was broad-based, with South Asia, Middle East and Africa up 7.8% on a like-for-like basis, and North America up 3.0%. Within product segments, snacks, health care, dairy, and sweet goods all delivered good growth. The division’s EBITDA margin improved to 21.0%, up from 20.8% in 2024.
Ingredient innovation: functionality and clean label
Givaudan’s 2025 Integrated Report highlights a number of technical launches relevant to food and beverage formulators. Among the most notable for food scientists is Green Banana Powder, a clean-label, upcycled ingredient designed to replace synthetic texturisers. The ingredient delivers consistent texture and mouthfeel while adding dietary fibre and nutritional value across a range of food applications. Its upcycled origin addresses both ingredient sustainability credentials and clean-label formulation requirements simultaneously.
In the functional nutrition space, Givaudan launched Zensera™, a patent-pending lemon-balm extract intended to support cognitive performance under stress. Positioned as a science-backed, clean-label ingredient effective at a low dose, it is applicable in both beverages and traditional dietary supplement formats.
For manufacturers navigating regulatory pressure on synthetic colours, Everzure™ Galdieria offers a natural blue derived from microalgae (Galdieria sulphuraria), with US FDA approval for food and beverage applications. The ingredient addresses a well-documented gap in the natural blue colour category, where options have historically been limited to spirulina-derived pigments with their own stability constraints.
Supply chain traceability and responsible sourcing
Beyond emissions, Givaudan’s Sourcing4Good programme underpins the responsible sourcing claims that increasingly matter to food and beverage customers seeking ingredient transparency. In 2025, 80% of total materials and services procured were flagged as responsibly sourced upon completion of basic due diligence under the programme. The company operates 77 production sites and 65 creation and research centres across 167 sites worldwide, with approximately 143,800 individual products sold to a customer base that is 41% global and 59% local and regional.
Strategic outlook
The company enters its 2026-2030 strategic cycle under new leadership, with Stammkoetter having succeeded Gilles Andrier, who served as CEO for 21 years. The new cycle is framed around extending customer reach, deepening geographical presence, expanding the portfolio through targeted acquisitions, and consolidating the company’s position in fragrances, flavours, and selected high-value adjacencies. For food scientists and procurement teams working with Givaudan ingredients, the continued alignment of product innovation with sustainability targets – and the independent verification of supply chain climate engagement – is likely to become an increasingly material factor in ingredient sourcing decisions.
Givaudan’s 2025 Integrated Report is available at: https://shorturl.at/hCDpH
