---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-073863"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IFF"
cik: "0000051253"
company_name: "INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC"
filed_at: "2024-03-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T10:40:20.851350+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# IFF President Simon Herriott steps down as President, Scent; retains Health & Biosciences role

## Summary
- Simon Herriott will step down as President, Scent effective April 1, 2024.
- He will continue as President, Health & Biosciences, a role he has held since February 2021.
- No successor for President, Scent named in the filing.
- Herriott had been President, Scent since June 2023, now consolidating leadership.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-073863
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IFF
- cik: 0000051253
- company_name: INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC
- filed_at: 2024-03-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51253/000119312524073863/0001193125-24-073863-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51253/000119312524073863/d810776d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-073863
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-073863.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-073863.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Simon Herriott changed role as President, Scent at INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
  - Action: stepping down
  - Role: President, Scent
  source text: On March 21, 2024, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (the “Company”) announced that, effective April 1, 2024, Simon Herriott, who has served as the Company’s President, Health & Biosciences and President, Scent since February 2021 and June 2023, respectively, is stepping down from his position as President, Scent.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51253/000119312524073863/0001193125-24-073863-index.htm

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