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Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Nature of Operations
Nature of Operations
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and its subsidiaries (the “Registrant,” “IFF,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our”) is a leading creator and manufacturer of products for application in food, beverage, health & biosciences, scent (and pharmaceuticals, until the recent sale of our Pharma Solutions disposal group), as well as complementary adjacent products, including natural health ingredients, all of which are used in a wide variety of consumer and end-use products. Our products are sold principally to manufacturers of dairy, meat, beverages, snacks, savory, sweet, baked goods, grain processors and other foods, personal care products, soaps and detergents, cleaning products, perfumes, dietary supplements, food protection, infant, elderly and animal nutrition, functional food, bio-fuel, pharmaceutical and oral care products. As a result, we hold global leadership positions in the Food & Beverage, Home & Personal Care and Health & Wellness markets, and across key Tastes, Textures, Scents, Nutrition, Enzymes, Cultures, Soy Proteins, and Probiotics categories, among others.
Basis of Presentation
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying interim Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes included in our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K (“2024 Form 10-K”), filed on February 28, 2025 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
The interim Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) in the United States of America for interim financial information and with the rules and regulations for reporting on Form 10-Q, and are unaudited. Accordingly, certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP in the United States of America have been condensed or omitted, if not materially different from the 2024 Form 10-K. The year-end balance sheet data included in this Form 10-Q was derived from the audited financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, which consist of normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair statement of the interim Consolidated Financial Statements, have been made.
Use of Estimates
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements requires management to make estimates and judgments that affect the amounts reported in the Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. The inputs into the Company’s judgments and estimates take into account the ongoing global current events and adverse macroeconomic impacts on our critical and significant accounting estimates, including estimates associated with future cash flows that are used in assessing the risk of impairment of certain assets. Actual results could differ from those which are based on such estimates and judgments.
Reclassifications
Certain amounts in the prior period financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation. These reclassifications had no effect on reported consolidated Net income (loss) in those prior periods.
Effective January 1, 2025, the Company implemented a reorganization of its internal structure, which impacted the way the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), the Chief Executive Officer, allocates resources and assesses financial performance. As a result, the Company has updated its reportable segments beginning with the first quarter of 2025. The Company also adjusted its corporate cost allocations to align with the new organizational structure and updated operating model, consistent with how management assesses performance effective January 1, 2025. As a result, certain segment information for the three months and six months ended June 30, 2024 has been recast to reflect these changes in corporate allocations among the Company’s reportable segments on a comparable basis. Please see Note 6 for more information.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable
The Company has various factoring agreements globally under which it can factor up to approximately $366 million of its trade receivables (“Company’s own factoring agreements”). In addition, the Company utilizes factoring agreements sponsored by certain customers. Under all of the arrangements, the Company sells the trade receivables on a non-recourse basis to unrelated financial institutions and accounts for the transactions as sales of receivables. The applicable receivables are removed from the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets when the cash proceeds are received from sponsoring banks by the Company.
The Company sold a total of approximately $910 million and $882 million of receivables under the Company’s own factoring agreements and customer sponsored factoring agreements for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The cost of participating in these programs was approximately $6 million and $8 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and was approximately $12 million and $14 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. These costs are included as a component of interest expense. Although the Company’s own factoring agreements are non-recourse to the Company, the Company has continued responsibility to collect receivables on behalf of sponsoring banks. Under these agreements, the Company sold approximately $503 million and $436 million of receivables for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The outstanding principal amounts of receivables under the Company’s own factoring agreements amounted to approximately $285 million and $189 million as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. The proceeds from the sales of receivables are included in Net cash provided by operating activities in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
Expected Credit Losses
Expected Credit Losses
As of June 30, 2025, the Company reported $1.801 billion of trade receivables, net of allowances of $26 million. Based on the aging analysis as of June 30, 2025, less than 1% of the Company’s accounts receivable were past due by over 365 days based on the payment terms of the invoice.
Inventories
Inventories
Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (on a weighted-average basis) or net realizable value.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In July 2025, The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2025-05, “Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets”, which provides a practical expedient to measure credit losses on accounts receivable and contract assets. This guidance is effective for periods beginning after December 15, 2025 and will be adopted prospectively. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, “Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses”, and in January 2025, issued ASU 2025-01, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date (“ASU 2025-01”). The ASU was issued to improve the disclosures about a public business entity’s expenses, primarily through disaggregation of certain expense captions into specified categories in disclosures within the footnotes to the financial statements. This guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. Public business entities are permitted to adopt the ASU prospectively or retrospectively. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that this guidance will have on its Consolidated Financial Statements and footnote disclosures.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures.” The ASU was issued to further enhance income tax disclosures, primarily through standardization and disaggregation of rate reconciliation categories and income taxes paid by jurisdiction. This guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted, and may be applied either prospectively or retrospectively. The Company expects the standard will impact certain income tax disclosures in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements, but will otherwise not have an impact on the Company’s results of operations.