PARIS — There’s a altering of the guard afoot at Robertet, the world’s largest pure perfume and flavors maker.
Jérôme Bruhat has been appointed because the group’s deputy chief government officer, efficient Feb. 1. The former L’Oréal government joins Robertet, the place Philippe Maubert is chairman and CEO. Following Robertet’s basic meeting in June, Maubert will tackle the function of non-executive chairman, whereas Bruhat steps into the CEO place.
Bruhat spent greater than three many years at L’Oréal. Most not too long ago, since 2015, he served as president of L’Oréal in Japan, growing the group’s varied divisions there. His different jobs on the French magnificence big included international model director of Maybelline New York and president of L’Oréal Germany.
In 2021, Robertet generated gross sales of 606 million euros, up 12.7 p.c in reported phrases and 14.9 p.c at fixed alternate charges versus 2020. By division, revenues gained 12 p.c for uncooked supplies, 16 p.c for perfume and eight p.c for flavors within the interval.
“In a turbulent international financial context, the group has been in a position to assert its management place in all its pure product ranges — a assure of its independence — whereas making certain that the formidable traces of improvement in phrases of social and environmental duty, that it has set itself, are upheld,” Robertet stated in a press release.
Two of its opponents, Givaudan and Firmenich, had made unsolicited entries into Robertet’s capital, taking minority stakes, in early 2020 and late 2019, respectively.
“The household desires to keep up the independence of the corporate as a result of it’s the solely approach we will develop and develop the enterprise,” Christophe Maubert, president of Robertet’s international perfume division, informed WWD in an article dated Feb. 11, 2020.
Robertet was based in 1850 in Grasse, France, and is majority owned by the Maubert household. The firm is traded on the Euronext Paris market.
Robertet is absolutely built-in at every stage of the perfume and flavors creation course of. It has illustration in additional than 50 nations and counts greater than 2,000 staff globally.
For extra, see:
Robertet Vows to Remain Independent
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