IFF Celebrates Opening of New Innovation Center in Holmdel’s Historic Bell Works
September 16 2019 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
IFF (NYSE: IFF) (Euronext Paris: IFF) (TASE: IFF), a leading
innovator of taste, scent, nutrition and ingredients today opens
the doors to its Home & Fabric Care Innovation Center at Bell
Works in Holmdel, New Jersey. To mark the occasion, Chairman and
CEO Andreas Fibig will be joined by business leaders, IFF
employees, and Holmdel community members for a ribbon-cutting
ceremony.
IFF’s Innovation Center is a 60,000 square-foot research and
development hub with 32 state-of-the art evaluation spaces and
labs. It is the new home for 120 IFF employees. Designed to foster
co-creation and spark creativity, IFF’s space within Bell Works not
only provides employees with collaborative areas and an office-wide
open floor plan, but also draws inspiration from IFF’s newly
launched purpose and brand identity.
IFF has a proud history of innovative firsts, and its opening in
Holmdel connects the Company’s legacy with that of Bell Works,
which is the home of so many breakthrough developments. The IFF
Innovation Center today houses the Company’s foremost and
cutting-edge fragrance technologies driving forward the future of
fragrance for home care and fabric care, including digital
olfaction technology, immersive virtual reality scent experiences,
the latest generation of encapsulation technology, and
industry-first scent printing.
Andreas Fibig, Chairman and CEO said: “Today’s opening at Bell
Works is one of many steps we are taking to enable IFF’s vision for
growth as a world-class, consumer-centered, integrated technology
and research leader. Our new space provides us expanded
capabilities and epitomizes IFF’s drive toward bold and
unconventional thinking.”
Nicolas Mirzayantz, Divisional CEO, Scent, added: “Innovation
runs through the DNA of Bell Works, making it the perfect
environment to establish a new inspiring home for our creative
teams as we seek to redefine and transform how we live in and care
for the world. I look forward to IFF’s contributions to the story
of this extraordinary place.”
Originally constructed between 1962 and 1964 and designed by
world-renowned modernist architect Eero Saarinen, the building is
revered for its role in spurring the development of some of the
world’s foremost inventions and research concepts. In its 40-plus
year history as the research headquarters for Bell Laboratories,
Lucent and Alcatel-Lucent, the building housed a total of seven
Nobel Prize winners, including those who conceived theories for the
laser, the Big Bang theory, cellular technology, the transistor,
and more.
Welcome to IFF
At IFF (NYSE:IFF) (Euronext Paris: IFF) (TASE: IFF), we’re using
Uncommon Sense to create what the world needs. As a collective of
unconventional thinkers and creators, we put science and artistry
to work to create unique and unexpected scents, tastes, experiences
and ingredients for the products our world craves. Learn more at
iff.com, Twitter , Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
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Michael DeVeau Head of Investor Relations and Communications
& Divisional CFO, Scent 212.708.7164 Michael.DeVeau@iff.com