---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-040332"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IFF"
cik: "0000051253"
company_name: "INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC"
filed_at: "2025-11-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:45:32.015800+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# IFF adopts amended bylaws effective October 29, 2025

## Summary
- Bylaws updated to reflect current committee nomenclature and modernize references.
- Indemnification right revised to cover directors and officers to fullest extent allowed by New York law.
- Severability clause added to indemnification article for partial enforceability.
- Amendments approved by Board on October 29, 2025 and effective immediately.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-040332
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IFF
- cik: 0000051253
- company_name: INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC
- filed_at: 2025-11-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51253/000114036125040332/0001140361-25-040332-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51253/000114036125040332/ef20058220_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-040332.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC: Board adopted amended and restated bylaws effective October 29, 2025, with updates to committee nomenclature, administrative changes, indemnification right clarification, and a severability clause for the indemnification article (effective 2025-10-29).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-10-29
  source text: On October 29, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted amended and restated bylaws (as amended, the “Bylaws”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51253/000114036125040332/0001140361-25-040332-index.htm

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