INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC
For the period ended Apr 29, 2026. Filed Mar 18, 2026.
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Apr 29, 2026 · Filed Mar 18, 2026
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Compensation Setting Process
Roles and Responsibilities
| Human Capital & Compensation Committee | The Committee is responsible for overseeing the determination, implementation and administration of executive compensation (including equity awards, benefits and perquisites). The Committee recommends CEO compensation to the independent directors of the Board for their approval and approves the compensation of all other NEOs. |
| Compensation Consultant | FW Cook is engaged as the Committee’s independent compensation consultant and provides the Committee with analyses, advice, guidance and recommendations on executive compensation levels versus peers, market trends and incentive plan designs. FW Cook is engaged exclusively by the Committee on executive and non-employee director compensation matters. The Committee considers the independence of FW Cook on an annual basis, and in 2025 it determined FW Cook was independent and had no conflicts of interest. |
| Management | Our CEO evaluates individual performance and, with input from the Committee’s independent compensation consultant, the CEO and EVP, Chief People & Culture Officer evaluates the competitive pay positioning for senior management members that report directly to the CEO, including our NEOs, and make recommendations to the Committee concerning each such executive’s target compensation. Our CEO follows the same process with regard to the target compensation for our EVP, Chief People & Culture Officer, without her input, and the Committee follows the same process with regard to the target compensation for our CEO, without his input. |
Shareholder Advisory Vote
As part of its compensation setting process, the Committee also considers the results of the prior year’s shareholder advisory vote on our executive compensation. The Committee believes these voting results provide useful insight as to whether shareholders agree that the Committee is achieving its goal of designing and administering an executive compensation program that promotes the best interests of our Company and our shareholders by providing its executives with appropriate compensation and meaningful incentives to deliver strong financial performance and increase shareholder value. As part of its 2025 compensation setting process, the Committee reviewed the results of the 2025 shareholder advisory vote, in which 84.5% of the votes cast were in favor of our executive compensation program. The Committee views the Say on Pay vote as an important shareholder signal and, if support were to decline to a level that indicates heightened investor concern, the Committee would undertake enhanced shareholder outreach and disclose in the following year’s CD&A the key themes heard and actions taken in response.
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