Frutarom Industries Ltd. is one of the world's leading flavor

Flavor

Flavor or flavour is the sensory impression of a food or other substance, and is determined mainly by the chemical senses of taste and smell. The "trigeminal senses", which detect chemical irritants in the mouth and throat as well as temperature and texture, are also very important to the overall...

 and fragrance companies, in 2008 it had sales of over $473 million.
The company’s shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange

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 and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

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, where it is a constitute of the TA-100 Index

TA-100 Index

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 of leading shares.

Overview

The Frutarom Group is a rapidly growing global flavor and fine ingredients company. The company develop, manufacture and market an extensive variety of high quality flavors and fine, natural ingredients catered to customers in a wide range of industries: food, beverage, flavor, fragrance, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food additive, and cosmetic.

Frutarom's some 20,000 products are sold to more than 10,000 customers, in 120 countries around the world. The Frutarom Group boasts 1,500 employees worldwide, with manufacturing facilities located in Europe, North America, Israel and Asia.

Frutarom operates through two major divisions:

• Flavors Division - Develops, produces and markets superior flavor compounds and food system solutions.
• Fine Ingredients Division - Develops, produces and markets natural flavor extracts, functional food
  Functional food
  Functional food is a food where a new ingredient has been added to a food and the new product has a new function ....
  
   ingredients, natural pharmaceutical/nutraceutical extracts, specialty essential oils, citrus products and aroma chemicals.

History

Frutarom was established by Yehuda Araten and Maurice Gerzon, two industrialists from Holland in 1933. They chose to build their first plant in an almost desert-like area between Haifa

Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...

 and Acco

Acre, Israel

Acre , is a city in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. Acre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the country....

 in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

, making Frutarom one of Israel’s

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 earliest industrial enterprises. In 1952, Frutarom became a subsidiary of the newly established Electrochemical Industries (Frutarom) Ltd (EIF). By 1973 ICC, owned by Dr. John J. Farber, became the controlling party of EIF and Frutarom. Since the 1990s, Frutarom has aggressively expanded by establishing itself overseas beginning with the acquisition of a small US company in 1990. Frutarom now has subsidiaries in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

, the USA, the UK, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, Russia

Russia

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, Turkey

Turkey

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, China

China

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, Ukraine

Ukraine

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, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

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 and Brazil

Brazil

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, plus marketing offices in France

France

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, Romania

Romania

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, India

India

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, and Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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.

On February 5, 2009, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg identified a Hudson County Frutarom facility that processes fenugreek

Fenugreek

Fenugreek is a plant in the family Fabaceae. Fenugreek is used both as a herb and as a spice . The leaves and sprouts are also eaten as vegetables...

 seeds as the source of a mysterious maple syrup smell that has periodically filled the city since October 2005. The most recent "maple syrup event

Maple syrup event

The maple syrup event was the objective presence of a particular scent in New York City, and the response to this smell by the residents, various media outlets, and government agencies. Reports of the events are said to have begun in the fall of 2005, and continued sporadically into early 2009. New...

" occurred January 29, 2009. While numerous calls were placed to the city's 311 non-emergency complaint hotline on days when the odor was noticed by New Yorkers, the Mayor and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection have determined that the smell is not harmful.