Segment and Geographic Information (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Segment and Geographic Information [Abstract]

	Flavors &				Corporate
(in thousands)	Fragrances		Color		& Other			Consolidated

2011
Revenue from external customers	$	833,663	$	467,691	$	129,435		$	1,430,789
Intersegment revenue		27,017		24,190		2,400			53,607
Total revenue		860,680		491,881		131,835			1,484,396
Operating income (loss)		130,849		90,217		(30,243	)		190,823
Interest expense		-		-		19,439			19,439
Earnings (loss) before income taxes		130,849		90,217		(49,682	)		171,384
Assets		804,983		695,251		153,930			1,654,164
Capital expenditures		35,034		30,121		7,045			72,200
Depreciation and amortization		26,860		14,086		5,153			46,099

2010
Revenue from external customers	$	786,532	$	430,782	$	110,866		$	1,328,180
Intersegment revenue		22,521		16,679		2,313			41,513
Total revenue		809,053		447,461		113,179			1,369,693
Operating income (loss)		121,997		77,404		(24,824	)		174,577
Interest expense		-		-		20,384			20,384
Earnings (loss) before income taxes		121,997		77,404		(45,208	)		154,193
Assets		785,205		676,656		137,407			1,599,268
Capital expenditures		27,214		22,306		6,303			55,823
Depreciation and amortization		24,896		13,473		5,054			43,423

2009
Revenue from external customers	$	755,525	$	358,761	$	87,126		$	1,201,412
Intersegment revenue		17,347		16,046		1,280			34,673
Total revenue		772,872		374,807		88,406			1,236,085
Operating income (loss)		124,482		58,685		(36,204	)		146,963
Interest expense		-		-		23,788			23,788
Earnings (loss) before income taxes		124,482		58,685		(59,992	)		123,175
Assets		800,156		651,446		140,089			1,591,691
Capital expenditures		28,696		11,865		7,155			47,716
Depreciation and amortization		24,155		13,098		4,930			42,183

Geographical Information

Geographic Information The Company has manufacturing facilities or sales offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

(in thousands)	2011		2010		2009
Revenue from external customers:
North America	$	737,154	$	699,429	$	650,847
Europe		405,312		374,616		334,755
Asia Pacific		190,404		166,809		137,804
Other		97,919		87,326		78,006
Consolidated	$	1,430,789	$	1,328,180	$	1,201,412
Long-lived assets:
North America	$	444,656	$	420,084	$	407,758
Europe		456,248		470,811		493,263
Asia Pacific		35,151		34,993		31,605
Other		11,239		1,075		956
Consolidated	$	947,294	$	926,963	$	933,582

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of information concerning material long-lived assets (excluding financial instruments, customer relationships with financial institutions, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred taxes assets) located in identified geographic areas and/or the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to that country from which revenue is material. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries.

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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