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 "updated": "2026-10-08",
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 "confidence": "B",
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  "value": "International Flavors & Fragrances",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "SEC-IFF-10K",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SEC-IFF-10K.txt:7",
  "quote": "Our common stock is principally traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “IFF.”",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the company’s own annual report (Form 10-K) for 2025"
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 "kind": "aroma-chemical company",
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  "value": "1958",
  "precision": "year",
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  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "PENN-POLAK-SCHWARZ",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PENN-POLAK-SCHWARZ.txt:7",
  "quote": "In 1958 it merged with Van Ameringen-Haebler, Incorporated",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "said of N. V. Polak & Schwarz; the finding aid goes on: the merger formed IFF"
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   "place": "New York (principal executive offices, 521 West 57th Street)",
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   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "SEC-IFF-10K",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SEC-IFF-10K.txt:8",
   "quote": "Our principal executive offices are located at 521 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
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  {
   "what": "a patent on one isomer of octahydrotetramethyl acetonaphthone, assigned to the company (US 3,929,677, 1975)",
   "molecule": "iso-e-super",
   "year": 1975,
   "evidence": "documented",
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   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PAT-US3929677.txt:7",
   "quote": "Application filed by International Flavors and Fragrances Inc",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": "the patent names the compound by its chemical name only; the record links the molecule whose chemical name it is"
  }
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   "relation": "formed from",
   "name": "N. V. Polak & Schwarz, a Dutch company of 1889, and van Ameringen-Haebler",
   "year": 1958,
   "evidence": "documented",
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   "quote": "N. V. Polak & Schwarz's Flavor Factories was a Dutch company founded in 1889.",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
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  "value": "a listed company: its common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker IFF), per its annual report for 2025",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
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  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SEC-IFF-10K.txt:7",
  "quote": "Our common stock is principally traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “IFF.”",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by International Flavors & Fragrances. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
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  "lede": "A flavour and fragrance company formed in 1958 when the Dutch firm Polak & Schwarz merged with van Ameringen-Haebler; listed on the New York Stock Exchange today.",
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