Integrated Annual Report 2025

People share a meal around a table as a fresh salad is passed between plates, viewed from above. (photo)

Healthier and more delicious products that are better for People and Planet

Taste, Texture & Health (TTH) brings progress to life by tackling some of society’s biggest challenges: providing nutritious, healthy, and sustainable food and beverages; accelerating diet transformation; and nourishing a growing world population while minimizing food loss and waste.

TTH consists of two divisions: Taste, which includes flavors, natural extracts, and taste modulation solutions for saltiness and sweetness, as well as solutions for restoring texture and mouthfeel; and Ingredients Solutions, which includes food enzymes, hydrocolloids, cultures, natural colorants, nutritional ingredients, and plant-based proteins. Our four growth platforms – plant-based, sugar reduction, pet food, and health benefits – deploy portfolios and application & creation capabilities across divisions.

By co-creating with our customers, we bring delicious, nutritious, and sustainable food and beverage solutions to market. These products are not only appealing to consumers: they are better for People and Planet than the ones they replace. Our passion for the science and emotion of food extends from discovery to application to the end-consumer experience. This includes drinks with little or no sugar; dairy products with consumer-preferred mouthfeel; succulent savory bites; and nutritious plant-based alternatives.

Highlights

In 2025, TTH delivered 4% organic sales growth and a 20.6% Adjusted EBITDA margin

We continued to invest in our regional presence by building and expanding facilities worldwide and implementing continuous improvement initiatives. These include the inauguration of our new TTH head office and R&D and application facilities in Delft (the Netherlands), as well as our pet-only premix facility in Tonganoxie (Kansas, USA)

Sales synergies continued to gain momentum through cross-selling, concept-selling, and capability-sharing, resulting in a steadily growing pipeline in line with our ambitions. Think of concepts to help customers reduce sugar content in preparation for impending sugar taxes or the deployment of our taste and ingredient solutions to assist with the creation of plant-based barista milk

We accelerated our transformation process by implementing our new regionally steered operating model, all while maintaining high levels of employee engagement

We invested in climate actions to meet our long-term science-based targets and demand for lower-carbon food and beverage solutions

EBITDA
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization
Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)
dsm-firmenich applies the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, which defines GHG as “atmospheric gases that absorb and emit radiation within the thermal infrared range and that contribute to the greenhouse effect and global climate change.” We report GHGs based on their global warming potential over 100 years in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e).
Organic sales growth
Organic sales growth is the sales growth excluding the impact of acquisitions, divestments, and currency impacts.
SBTi
Science Based Targets initiative

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