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 "id": "givaudan",
 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "GIV-EXPANSION",
  "GIV-SCHOOL70",
  "GIV-SHARE",
  "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
  "PFAP-1925",
  "WD-1"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "Givaudan",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HLS-GIVAUDAN.txt:7",
  "quote": "L. Givaudan SA est achetée en 1963 par Hoffmann-La Roche à Bâle",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "kind": "aroma-chemical company",
 "founded": {
  "value": "1895",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1895,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HLS-GIVAUDAN.txt:8",
  "quote": "Entreprise de fabrication de parfums et arômes synthétiques fondée en 1895 par l'ingénieur chimiste Léon Givaudan",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "founders": [
  {
   "name": "Léon Givaudan",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HLS-GIVAUDAN.txt:8",
   "quote": "fondée en 1895 par l'ingénieur chimiste Léon Givaudan",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": "the same sentence: his brother Xavier gave financial backing (“avec l’appui financier de son frère Xavier”)"
  }
 ],
 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Zurich, a synthesis laboratory on the Weinbergstrasse",
   "role": "founded in",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HLS-GIVAUDAN.txt:10",
   "quote": "un laboratoire de synthèse de produits odorants à la Weinbergstrasse à Zurich",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "place": "Geneva from 1898, then Vernier from 1899",
   "role": "works",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HLS-GIVAUDAN.txt:11",
   "quote": "L'entreprise déménage à Genève en 1898, à Vernier en 1899",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "place": "Lyon, a works opened during the war of 1914–1918",
   "role": "works",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "PFAP-1925",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PFAP-1925.txt:53",
   "quote": "notre Usine de Eyon, créée pendant la guerre",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "the firm’s own notice of 1925; “Eyon” is the OCR of Lyon"
  }
 ],
 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "artificial musks, 300 g a day in 1895–1896 and near 200 kg a day by 1925, by the firm’s own account",
   "year": 1895,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "PFAP-1925",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PFAP-1925.txt:52",
   "quote": "En 1895-1896, nous fabriquions nous-mêmes 300 grammes de Muscs artificiels par jour",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "made at its works by 1925, with heliotropin, coumarin and the ionones",
   "molecule": "vanillin",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "PFAP-1925",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PFAP-1925.txt:52",
   "quote": "tels que Vanilline, Héliotropine",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "the firm’s 1925 list of the synthetics it made in quantity"
  },
  {
   "what": "founded in 1946 the perfumery school that is today the Givaudan Perfumery School",
   "perfumer": "jean-carles",
   "year": 1946,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GIV-SCHOOL70",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GIV-SCHOOL70.txt:7",
   "quote": "Jean Carles, who founded the School in 1946",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "lineage": [
  {
   "relation": "acquired by",
   "name": "Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel",
   "year": 1963,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HLS-GIVAUDAN.txt:7",
   "quote": "L. Givaudan SA est achetée en 1963 par Hoffmann-La Roche à Bâle",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "relation": "acquired",
   "name": "Roure-Bertrand Fils of Grasse, through Roche (1964); the two traded as Givaudan-Roure",
   "house": "roure-bertrand-fils",
   "year": 1964,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HLS-GIVAUDAN.txt:12",
   "quote": "qui acquiert en 1964 la société Roure-Bertrand, fabrique de produits aromatiques à Grasse, fondée en 1820 (d'où le nom de Givaudan-Roure SA de 1991 à 2000)",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "relation": "became",
   "name": "an independent listed company again, after leaving Roche",
   "year": 2000,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GIV-EXPANSION",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GIV-EXPANSION.txt:7",
   "quote": "creating the foundation of Givaudan which became an independent, publicly traded company in 2000",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "relation": "acquired",
   "name": "Quest International (2007), which carried the line of the Grasse house Chiris",
   "house": "chiris",
   "year": 2007,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GIV-EXPANSION",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GIV-EXPANSION.txt:8",
   "quote": "it added the branch of history that links our roots to the Chiris empire",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "the page dates the acquisition of Quest International to 2007 in the sentence before"
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "a listed company: its shares trade on the SIX Swiss Exchange",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GIV-SHARE",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GIV-SHARE.txt:7",
  "quote": "Our shares are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Givaudan. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "When Givaudan and Roure were joined: the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland dates the name Givaudan-Roure SA from 1991; Givaudan’s own history says Roche merged the two in 1992.",
   "sources": [
    "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
    "GIV-EXPANSION"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "links": {},
 "copy": {
  "lede": "A maker of synthetic odorants founded by the chemist Léon Givaudan in Zurich in 1895, at Vernier beside Geneva from 1899, and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange today.",
  "body": [
   "By its own account in 1925 it made artificial musks by the kilo and vanillin among a long list of synthetics, at Geneva and at a Lyon works opened during the war. Roche bought it in 1963 and the Grasse house Roure-Bertrand in 1964; it became independent again in 2000 and in 2007 bought Quest International, which carried the line of Chiris."
  ]
 },
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  "classes": [
   "CC BY",
   "CC0",
   "no licence stated",
   "open government licence"
  ],
  "commercial_use": "facts and short quotes only",
  "single_source": null,
  "licence": null
 },
 "wikidata_qid": {
  "value": "Q509544",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/wikidata/Q509544.json:2",
  "quote": "\"qid\": \"Q509544\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Givaudan S.A.)"
 }
}