Founded in 1895, Firmenich is a family-owned company that is in the business of manufacturing perfumes and flavors. The company employs more than 5,900 staff members and serves customers in over 50 countries. Its client list includes various multinational manufacturers of beauty, household and fabric care items, as well as companies that deal in food products, drinks and pharmaceuticals. Firmenich uses various patented ingredients, such as Hedione, Furaneol, Iralia, Habanolide, Polysantol, Dynascone 10 and Dianthine to produce a range of fragrances and flavors. The company s products are used in soaps, deodorants, cosmetics, oils, ice creams, beverages, and surface and laundry care products.
Nestle Purina Petcare Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nestle S.A, manufacturers a variety of food items for cats and dogs. Operational or more than 75 years, the company markets products under the brand names of the Alpo, Beneful, Busy Bone, Purina Cat Chow, Friskies, Fancy Feast, Kit N Kaboodle and Purina One. It offers a selection of behavior articles for cats and kittens. Nestle Purina Petcare Company provides tips for feeding pet at the various stages of life. In addition, the company manufactures cat and dog litter and training pads. It offers stuffed morsels in beef, ocean fish and turkey flavors. Nestle Purina Petcare Company also provides flavored fish.
Sensient Colors, a subsidiary of Sensient Technologies, produces certified colors and custom dyes for the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, household and personal care industries. Its customers include manufacturers of paper and packaging products, household cleaners and disinfectants, ball point and felt-tip writing instruments, fertilizers and herbicides, dyes for wood stains, dyes for printing inks, water tracing, automobile windshields and taillight lenses, and antifreeze. Sensient offers solvent-soluble dyes that produce transparent shades on a number of plastic materials, including styrenics, cellulosics, polyamides, polyolefins, polycarbonates, acrylics, rigid PVC and engineering resins. The company is headquartered in St. Louis and operates production facilities in four countries throughout the world. The company was known as Warner-Jenkinson before being acquired by Sensient in 1984.
Beech-Nut, founded in 1891, is one of the oldest companies in the united states, specializing in baby foods. Family-owned and operated, the company manufactures more than 150 types of baby products, such as bakery items, cereals, desserts, dinners, fruit yogurt, juices and waters, tree-ripened peaches. hand-peeled bananas and soy-free cereals. It also makes salt, sugar and additive free foods and foods containing docosahexaenoic and arachidonic acid. Beech-Nut s partners include American Culinary Institute, Upromise, Babytyle, Darling Baby, American Academy of Pediatrics, BabyCenter, Geoparent, Growing Family, Ellyn Satter, Zeum, ParentInformation.com, Peapod, Raley's and Bel Air, Piggly Wiggly and Pathmark.
