SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Sensient Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: SXT) operates as a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and specialty ingredients for food and beverage, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and personal care industries. The company maintains its website at www.sensient.com. From the company’s description.
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What SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP does
In the company’s own words
Sensient Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: SXT) operates as a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and specialty ingredients for food and beverage, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and personal care industries. The company maintains its website at www.sensient.com.
The company organizes its operations into three reportable segments: the Flavors & Extracts Group, the Color Group, and the Asia Pacific Group. The Flavors & Extracts Group develops and manufactures flavor systems, natural extracts, essential oils, and agricultural ingredients including dehydrated vegetables. Operating under the Sensient Flavors and Sensient Agricultural Ingredients brand names, this segment serves multinational and regional food and beverage companies. The Color Group produces natural and synthetic food and beverage colors, personal care colors and ingredients, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical excipients, and technical colors for industrial applications. The company operates under trade names including Sensient Food Colors, Sensient Pharmaceutical, Sensient Beauty, and Sensient Specialty Markets. The Asia Pacific Group markets the company's diverse product portfolio across the Pacific Rim and India through regional technical teams and manufacturing operations.
Sensient Technologies employs 4,070 people worldwide, with approximately 45 percent based in the United States and 55 percent internationally. The workforce includes 2,492 production employees, 807 research and development personnel, 560 sales and marketing employees, and 522 general administration staff. The company maintains manufacturing facilities across multiple continents, including locations in California, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Belgium, Costa Rica, Mexico, Germany, and the United Kingdom for the Flavors & Extracts Group, and in Missouri, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Turkey, and the United Kingdom for the Color Group.
The company believes it ranks among the world's largest producers of natural and synthetic colors and holds the position of world's largest manufacturer of certified food colors by sales. In the agricultural ingredients sector, Sensient operates as the second-largest producer of dehydrated onion and garlic products in the United States. The company maintains significant competitive advantages through advanced process technology, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, world-class application chemists, redundant manufacturing capabilities, and comprehensive product portfolios spanning natural and synthetic offerings.
Company details
- Sector
- Materials
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Headquarters
- MILWAUKEE, WI
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 310142
- SIC
- 2860
Financial performance, year by year
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Who owns SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP’s weight in each
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