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Expanding market share in the US and emerging economies, as well as recent M&A, helped ingredients and flavours firm Frutarom post "record" growth for 2013.

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Ingredients firm Frutarom has booked an increase in third-quarter sales and earnings, boosted by recent acquisitions and expansion in developing markets.

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Ingredients firm Frutarom booked higher half-year sales and profits today (21 August), pointing to the benefits from acquisitions made in the last two years.

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Flavours and ingredients company Frutarom said that its first-quarter earnings rose 3% as sales were boosted by acquisitions.

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Frutarom is set to make its third acquisition of 2012 after signing a deal to buy Brazilian flavours firm Mylner.

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Israeli ingredients firm Frutarom has made its second acquisition this month with the purchase of Slovenia flavours firms Etol.

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Israeli ingredients firm Frutarom today (5 January) announced it has acquired UK company Savoury Flavours.

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Frutarom, the Israeli flavours and ingredients company, is set to buy US-based Flavor Systems International.

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Frutarom Industries has bought flavouring company Aromco.

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Frutarom Industries, the flavour and ingredients maker, has announced record half-year profits.

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Flavours group Frutarom has moved to buy Chr. Hansen's Italy-based savoury division.

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Recent acquisitions and a recovering global economy have boosted first-quarter sales and profits at Frutarom, the food ingredients maker.

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Food ingredients maker Frutarom today (24 March) booked "record" annual profits for 2010 amid rising sales, notably in Asia and the Far East.

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Food ingredients group Frutarom has acquired the activity and assets of British East Anglian Food Ingredients (EAFI) for US$4.8m.

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Food ingredients group Frutarom is to purchase a Scandinavian industrial spices savoury business from Norwegian manufacturer Rieber & Son.

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Food ingredients group Frutarom today (16 November) recorded an increase in third-quarter profits, boosted by sales growth in its flavours and speciality fine ingredients divisions.

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Food ingredients group Frutarom today (17 August) booked increasing quarterly profits as flavour sales boosted earnings.

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Israeli ingredients group Frutarom doubled its profits in the first quarter of 2010, boosted by boosted by an increase in sales and cost-cutting measures.

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A decline in sales has hit full-year profits at Israeli ingredients group Frutatom.

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Israeli ingredients group Frutarom reported a drop in profit for the first nine months of the year as sales were affected by the strength of the dollar against European currencies.

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Israeli ingredients group Frutarom has launched a corporate re-branding in a bid to express its “unique position” in the "combination of taste and health solutions".

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Ingredients and flavours producer Frutarom said it expects to double turnover in the next four years, despite booking a drop in first-half profit today (27 August).

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Ingredients and flavours producer Frutarom has acquired the savoury unit of German ingredients company Chr. Hansen in a deal worth US$7.3m.

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Ingredients and flavours producer Frutarom has reported a 5.5% decrease in first-quarter revenues to US$98.4m.

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Israeli flavours and ingredients group Frutarom posted a 25% increase in net profit for the fourth-quarter and said it can double sales to US$1bn by 2012.

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