SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

Annual Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005    Commission File Number 1-4858

INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)


NEW YORK 13-1432060
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
521 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10019
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code (212) 765-5500

SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OF THE ACT:


TITLE OF EACH CLASS NAME OF EACH EXCHANGE ON WHICH REGISTERED
Common Stock, par value 12½¢ per share New York Stock Exchange

SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(g) OF THE ACT:
None

Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

Yes [X]     No [ ]

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months, and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes [X]     No [ ]

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.

Yes [ ]     No [X]

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of Registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendments to this Form 10-K. [X]

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of ‘‘accelerated filer and large accelerated filer’’ in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer[X]                Accelerated filer[ ]                Non-accelerated filer [ ]

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12B-2 of the Exchange Act).

Yes [ ]    No [X]

For the purpose of reporting the following market value of Registrant's outstanding common stock, the term ‘‘affiliate’’ refers to persons, entities or groups which directly or indirectly control, are controlled by, or are under common control with the Registrant and does not include individual executive officers, directors or less than 10% shareholders. The aggregate market value of Registrant's common stock not held by affiliates as of June 30, 2005 was $3,389,073,490.

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the Registrant's classes of common stock, as of February 28, 2006: 90,738,982 shares of common stock, par value 12½¢ per share.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the Registrant's Proxy Statement to be sent to shareholders in connection with the 2006 Annual Meeting (the ‘‘IFF 2006 Proxy Statement’’) are incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K.




INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


    PAGE
PART I
ITEM 1. Business   3  
ITEM 1A. Risk Factors   8  
ITEM 1B. Unresolved SEC Staff Comments   9  
ITEM 2. Properties   10  
ITEM 3. Legal Proceedings   11  
ITEM 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders   13  
PART II
ITEM 5. Market for the Registrant's Common Stock and Related Security Holder Matters and Issuer Purchase of Equity Securities   14  
ITEM 6. Selected Financial Data   15  
ITEM 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations
  17  
ITEM 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk   33  
ITEM 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data   34  
ITEM 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and
Financial Disclosure
  34  
ITEM 9A. Controls and Procedures   34  
ITEM 9B. Other Information   35  
PART III
ITEM 10. Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant   36  
ITEM 11. Executive Compensation   36  
ITEM 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management   36  
ITEM 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions   36  
ITEM 14. Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Fees and Services   36  
PART IV
ITEM 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules   37  
SIGNATURES   70  



PART I

ITEM 1.    BUSINESS.

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., incorporated in New York in 1909 and its subsidiaries (the ‘‘Registrant’’, ‘‘IFF’’ or the ‘‘Company’’), is a leading creator and manufacturer of flavor and fragrance products used by other manufacturers to impart or improve flavor or fragrance in a wide variety of consumer products. Fragrance products are sold principally to manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, toiletries, hair care products, deodorants, soaps, detergents and air care products; flavor products are sold principally to manufacturers of prepared foods, beverages, dairy foods, pharmaceuticals and confectionery products as well as the food service industry.

The present worldwide scope of the Company's business is in part the result of the 1958 combination of (i) the business conducted prior to the combination primarily in the United States by the Company under the name van Ameringen-Haebler, Inc. (‘‘VAH’’) with (ii) the business conducted prior to the combination primarily in Europe by N. V. Polak & Schwarz's Essencefabrieken, a Dutch corporation (‘‘P & S’’). The P & S enterprise, founded in Holland in 1889, was also engaged in the manufacture and sale of flavor and fragrance products, with operations in a number of countries where VAH was not an important factor. Additionally, in November 2000, the Company acquired Bush Boake Allen Inc. (‘‘BBA’’), an international flavor, fragrance and aroma chemical company.

The Company currently has 30 manufacturing facilities with the major manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, India, Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. The remaining manufacturing facilities are located in 8 other countries. The Company maintains its own sales and distribution facilities in 31 countries and is represented by sales agents and distributors in other countries. The Company's principal executive offices are located at 521 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019 (212-765-5500).

MARKETS

Fragrance products are used by customers in the manufacture of consumer products such as soaps, detergents, cosmetic creams, lotions and powders, lipsticks, after-shave lotions, deodorants, hair preparations, candles, air fresheners and all-purpose cleaners as well as in other consumer products designed solely to appeal to the sense of smell, such as perfumes and colognes. The cosmetics industry, including perfume and toiletries manufacturers, is one of the Company's two largest fragrance customer groups. Most of the major United States companies in this industry are customers of the Company, and five of the largest United States cosmetics companies are among its principal customers. The household products industry, including soaps and detergents, is the other important fragrance customer group. Four of the largest United States household product manufacturers are major customers of the Company. In the three years ended December 31, 2005, sales of fragrance products accounted for 57%, 55% and 54%, respectively, of the Company's total sales.

Flavor products are sold principally to the food and beverage industries for use in consumer products such as soft drinks, candies, baked goods, desserts, prepared foods, dietary foods, dairy products, drink powders, pharmaceuticals, snack foods and alcoholic beverages. Two of the Company's largest customers for flavor products are major producers of prepared foods and beverages in the United States. In the three years ended December 31, 2005, sales of flavor products accounted for 43%, 45% and 46%, respectively, of the Company's total sales.

PRODUCTS

The Company's principal fragrance and flavor products consist of compounds of large numbers of ingredients blended under proprietary formulas created by its perfumers and flavorists. Most of these compounds contribute the total fragrance or flavor to the consumer products in which they are used. This fragrance or flavor characteristic is often a major factor in the public selection and acceptance of the consumer end product. A smaller number of compounds are sold to manufacturers who further

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blend them to achieve the finished fragrance or flavor in their products. The Company produces thousands of compounds, and new compounds are constantly being created in order to meet the many and changing characteristics of its customers' end products. Most of the fragrance and flavor compounds are created and produced for the exclusive use of particular customers. The Company's products are sold in solid and liquid forms and in amounts ranging from a few pounds to many tons, depending upon the nature of the product.

The ingredients used by the Company in its compounds are both synthetic and natural. The Company manufactures a substantial portion of the synthetic ingredients. While the major part of the Company's production of synthetic ingredients is used in its compounds, a substantial portion is also sold to others. The natural ingredients are derived from flowers, fruits and other botanical products as well as from animal products. They contain varying numbers of organic chemicals, which are responsible for the fragrance or flavor of the natural product. The natural products are purchased for the larger part in processed or semi-processed form. Some are used in compounds in the state in which they are purchased and others after further processing. Natural products, together with various chemicals, are also used as raw materials for the manufacture of synthetic ingredients by chemical processes. The Company's flavor products also include extracts and seasonings derived from various fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs and spices as well as microbiologically-derived ingredients.

MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

The demand for consumer products utilizing flavors and fragrances has been stimulated and broadened by changing social habits resulting from various factors such as increases in personal income, and dual-earner households, teenage population, leisure time, health concerns and urbanization and by the continued growth in world population. In the fragrance field, these developments have expanded the market for hair care, candles and air care products and deodorant and personal wash products with finer fragrance quality, as well as the market for colognes, toilet waters, men's toiletries and other products beyond traditional luxury items such as perfumes. In the flavor field, similar market characteristics have stimulated the demand for products such as convenience foods, soft drinks and low-fat food products that must conform to expected tastes. New and improved methods of packaging, application and dispensing have been developed for many consumer products that utilize some of the Company's flavor or fragrance products. These developments have called for the creation of new compounds and ingredients compatible with the newly introduced materials and methods of application.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH

The development of new flavors and fragrances is a complex artistic and technical process calling upon the combined knowledge and skill of the Company's creative perfumers and flavorists, and its scientists. With extensive experience, the perfumers and flavorists continuously advance their skills for creating fragrances or flavors best suited to the market requirements of the customers' products.

Scientists from various disciplines work in project teams with the perfumers and flavorists to develop fragrance and flavor products with consumer preferred performance characteristics. Scientific expertise includes: natural products research, plant science, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, process engineering, food science, material science and sensory science. Analytical and sensory science is applied to understand the complex interactions of the many ingredients in a consumer product in order to optimize the flavor or fragrance performance at all points of use. Material science technology is applied to create controlled release and delivery systems to enhance flavor and fragrance performance in consumer products. An important contribution to the creation of new fragrances and flavors is the discovery and development of new ingredients having improved fragrance or flavor value. The ingredients research program discovers molecules found in natural substances and creates new molecules that are subsequently tested for their fragrance or flavor value. The new molecules that meet rigorous requirements for commercial development are subsequently transferred to manufacturing operations for production.

Creative and technical product development is conducted in 32 fragrance and flavor laboratories in 23 countries. The Company maintains a research and development center at Union Beach,

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New Jersey. The Company spent $179,812,000 in 2005, $175,173,000 in 2004 and $159,286,000 in 2003 on its research and development activities. These expenditures are currently expected to increase in 2006 to approximately $190,000,000. Of the amount expended in 2005 on such activities, 68% was for fragrances and the balance was for flavors. The Company employed 1,095 persons in 2005 and 1,056 persons in 2004 in such activities.

The business of the Company is not materially dependent upon any patents, trademarks or licenses.

DISTRIBUTION

Most of the Company's sales are through its own sales force, operating from 4 sales offices in the United States and 48 sales offices in 30 foreign countries. Sales in additional countries are made through agents and distributors. For the year ended December 31, 2005, 29% of the Company's sales were to customers in North America, 37% in Europe, 17% in Asia Pacific, 13% in Latin America and 4% in the India Region. For additional information with respect to the Company's operations by major geographical region, see Note 13 of the Notes to the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements.

During 2005, the Company's 30 largest customers accounted for 56% of its sales; its five largest customers accounted for approximately 10%, 8%, 6%, 5% and 3%, respectively, of its sales, and no other single customer accounted for more than 3% of sales.

GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION

Manufacture and sale of the Company's products are subject to regulation in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration, the Agriculture Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration and state authorities. Foreign subsidiaries are subject to similar regulation in a number of countries. Compliance with existing governmental requirements regulating the discharge of materials into the environment has not materially affected the Company's operations, earnings or competitive position. The Company expects to spend in 2006 approximately $6,200,000 in capital projects and $15,200,000 in operating expenses and governmental charges for the purpose of complying with such requirements.

RAW MATERIAL PURCHASES

More than 5,000 different raw materials are purchased from many sources all over the world. The principal natural raw material purchases consist of essential oils, extracts and concentrate derived from fruits, vegetables, flowers, woods and other botanicals, animal products and raw fruits. The principal synthetic raw material purchases consist of organic chemicals. The Company believes that alternate sources of materials are available to enable it to maintain its competitive position in the event of any interruption in the supply of raw materials from present sources.

COMPETITION

The Company has more than 50 competitors in the United States and world markets. While no single factor is responsible, the Company's competitive position is based principally on the creative skills of its perfumers and flavorists, the technological advances resulting from its research and development, the quality of its customer service, the support provided by its marketing and application groups, and its understanding of consumers. The Company believes that it is one of the largest companies producing and marketing on an international basis a wide range of fragrance and flavor products for sale to manufacturers of consumer products. In particular countries and localities, the Company faces competition from numerous companies specializing in certain product lines, among which are some companies larger than the Company and some more important in a particular product line or lines. Most of the Company's customers do not buy all their fragrance or flavor products from the same supplier, and some customers make their own fragrance or flavor compounds with ingredients supplied by the Company or others.

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EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

At December 31, 2005, the Company employed 5,160 persons, of whom 1,486 were employed in the United States. The Company has never experienced a work stoppage or strike and considers its employee relations to be satisfactory.

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF REGISTRANT:


Name Office and Other Business Experience (1) Age Year First
Became
Officer
Richard A. Goldstein(2) Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since June 2000; Director, Fiduciary Trust Company International; Director, The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc.; Director, Continuum Health Partners, Inc. 64 2000
James H. Dunsdon Chief Operating Officer since October 2004; Senior Vice President, Global Business Development, Flavors and Functional Fragrances since March 2004; Vice President, Global Account Sales and Regional Manager North America since January 2003; Regional Vice President, North America from January 2001 to January 2003. 59 2003
Clint D. Brooks Senior Vice President, Research and Development since December 2002; Vice President, Research and Development prior thereto. 54 2000
Steven J. Heaslip Senior Vice President, Human Resources since December 2002; Vice President, Human Resources from September 2001 to December 2002; Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Elizabeth Arden, a manufacturer of prestige beauty products, prior thereto. 48 2001
Dennis M. Meany Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since January 2004; Associate General Counsel prior thereto. 58 2004
Nicolas Mirzayantz Senior Vice President, Fine Fragrance and Beauty Care and Regional Manager, North America Region since April 2005; Senior Vice President, Fine Fragrance and Beauty Care from October 2004 to March 2005; Vice President, Global Business Development, Fine Fragrance and Toiletries from December 2002 to September 2004; Vice President, Global Business Development Fine Fragrances and Toiletries prior thereto. 43 2002
Douglas J. Wetmore Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. 48 1992
Arun Bewoor Vice President, India Region since January 2003; Managing Director of IFF India Ltd. and Regional Vice President, India Region from June 2002 to January 2003; Managing Director, BBA India Ltd., prior thereto. 61 2003

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Name Office and Other Business Experience (1) Age Year First
Became
Officer
Rob J. M. Edelman Senior Vice President, Aroma Chemicals since January 2006; Vice President, Europe Region from January 2003 to January 2006; Regional Vice President, Europe prior thereto. 44 2003
Robert Burns Senior Vice President and Regional Manager, Europe Region since January 2006; Vice President, Strategic Sales, Asia Pacific Region from December 2004 to December 2005; Vice President, Asia Pacific Region from January 2003 to November 2004; Regional Vice President, Asia Pacific prior thereto. 48 2003
Christopher E. Gibson Vice President, Global Accounts since April 2005; Vice President, North America Region from October 2004 to March 2005; Vice President, Global Category Manager, Savory Flavors prior thereto. 49 2004
Hernan Vaisman Vice President, Latin America Region since October 2004; Regional Financial Director, Latin America Region prior thereto. 47 2004
Dennis J. Wall Vice President, Asia Pacific Region since December 2004; Regional Sales Manager, Asia Pacific Region from July 2003 to December 2004; Business Development Manager and Asia Pacific Region Account Manager for Unilever prior thereto. 48 2004
Joseph Faranda Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer since March 2005; Vice President, Strategic Marketing, The Home Depot, Inc. from February 2002 to March 2005; Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Avon Products, Inc. prior thereto. 52 2005
(1) Employed by the Company or an affiliated company for the last five years, except as otherwise indicated.
(2) Will cease as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer effective May 9, 2006, as previously announced.

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AVAILABLE INFORMATION

The Company makes available free of charge on or through the investor relations link on its website, www.iff.com, all materials that it files electronically with the SEC, including its annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports, filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as soon as reasonably practicable after electronically filing such materials with, or furnishing them to, the SEC. During the period covered by this Form 10-K, the Company made all such materials available through its website as soon as reasonably practicable after filing such materials with the SEC.

You may also read and copy any materials filed by the Company with the SEC at the SEC's Public Reference Room at 100 F. Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20549, and you may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC in the U.S. at 1-800-SEC-0330. In addition, the SEC maintains an Internet website, www.sec.gov, that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information that the Company files electronically with the SEC.

A copy of the Company's Corporate Governance Guidelines, its Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, and the charters of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, and Nominating and Governance Committee of the Board of Directors are posted on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website, www.iff.com and are available in print to any shareholder who requests copies by contacting Dennis M. Meany, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, at the Company's principal executive office set forth above.

Item 1A.    Risk Factors.

Competitive factors may negatively impact our sales and marketability.

The market for flavor and fragrance products is fragmented and highly competitive. IFF competes with many companies and some of the Company's competitors specialize in one or more of our product lines while others sell many of the same product lines. In addition, some competitors may have greater financial and technical resources. Increased competition by existing or future competitors, including aggressive price competition, could result in the need for the Company to reduce prices or increase spending and this could have an impact on sales and profitability.

The Company is subject to economic and social changes which may impact sales.

Demand for consumer products using flavors and fragrances has been stimulated and broadened by changing social habits resulting from factors such as increases in personal income, dual-earner households, teenage population, leisure time, health concerns and urbanization and by the continued growth in world population. Changes in any number of external economic factors, or changes in social or consumer preferences, could adversely impact our results of operations.

Results may be negatively impacted by the price, quality and availability of raw materials.

Raw materials are purchased from many sources from all over the world, including essential oils, extracts and concentrate derived from fruits, vegetables, flowers, woods and other botanicals, animal products, raw fruits and organic chemicals. Disruptions in the supply or quality of ingredients or rising prices for ingredients purchased could adversely impact results of operations and profitability of the Company.

Results may be negatively impacted by the inability to implement the Company’s business strategy, including the achievement of anticipated cost savings, profitability or growth targets.

The Company is committed to those particular business strategies which have been identified as likely to drive profitable future growth and improve operations and customer service. If the Company is unable to successfully and timely implement these strategies, it would adversely impact the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

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Results may be negatively impacted by the impact of currency fluctuation or devaluation in principal foreign markets and the effectiveness of hedging and risk management strategies.

The Company’s operations are conducted in many countries, the results of which are reported in the local currency and then translated into U.S. dollars at applicable exchange rates. The exchange rates between these currencies and the U.S. dollar have fluctuated and may continue to do so in the future. The Company employs a variety of techniques to reduce the impact of exchange rate fluctuations, including foreign currency hedging activities. However, volatility in currency exchange rates may adversely impact the Company’s reported results of operations, financial condition or liquidity.

The Company’s results may be negatively impacted by the outcome of uncertainties related to litigation.

The Company is involved in a number of legal claims. While the Company believes that related insurance coverage is adequate with respect to such claims, the Company cannot predict the ultimate outcome of such litigation. In addition, the Company cannot provide assurance that future events will not require an increase in the amount accrued for any such claims, or require accrual for one or more claims that has not been previously accrued.

The Company’s results and cash flows may be negatively impacted by future pension funding and other postretirement obligations.

The Company establishes assumptions concerning discount rates and actuarial assumptions regarding pension funding and other postretirement benefit obligations based on current market conditions, plan participants, asset returns, interest rates and other factors. Changes in pension and other postretirement benefits, and associated expenses, may occur in the future due to changes in demographics and assumptions. These changes may adversely impact the Company’s financial condition, results of operations or liquidity.

The Company’s results may be negatively impacted by the effect of legal and regulatory requirements, as well as restrictions imposed on operations by foreign and domestic governmental entities.

Manufacture and sale of the Company's products are subject to regulation in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration, the Agriculture Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration and state authorities. Foreign operations of the Company are subject to similar governmental regulation in a number of countries. Compliance with existing governmental requirements and future governmental regulations may adversely impact the Company’s financial condition, results of operations or liquidity.

The Company may face risks associated with events which may affect the world economy.

World events such as terrorist attacks, the current U.S. military action in the Middle East and elsewhere, and hostilities in the Middle East, Asia and other geographical areas, have and may in the future weaken the U.S. and world economies. Any resulting weaknesses in these economies may adversely affect the Company’s business or the businesses of our customers, with a resultant negative impact on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations or liquidity.

ITEM 1B.    Unresolved SEC Staff Comments.

None

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ITEM 2.    PROPERTIES.

The principal properties of the Company are as follows:


Location Operation
United States  
Augusta, GA Production of fragrance chemical ingredients.
Carrollton, TX(1) Production of flavor compounds.
Hazlet, NJ(1) Production of fragrance compounds; fragrance laboratories.
Jacksonville, FL Production of fragrance chemical ingredients.
New York, NY(1) Fragrance laboratories.
South Brunswick, NJ(1) Production of flavor compounds and ingredients; flavor laboratories.
Union Beach, NJ Research and development center.
France  
Neuilly(1) Fragrance laboratories.
Grasse Production of flavor and fragrance ingredients; fragrance laboratories.
Great Britain  
Haverhill Production of flavor compounds and ingredients, and fragrance
chemical ingredients; flavor laboratories.
Ireland  
Drogheda Production of fragrance compounds.
Netherlands  
Hilversum Flavor and fragrance laboratories.
Tilburg Production of flavor compounds and ingredients, and fragrance compounds.
Spain  
Benicarlo Production of fragrance chemical ingredients.
Argentina  
Garin Production of flavor compounds and
ingredients, and fragrance compounds; flavor laboratories.
Brazil  
Rio de Janeiro Production of fragrance compounds.
São Paulo Fragrance laboratories.
Taubate Production of flavor compounds and ingredients; flavor laboratories.
Mexico  
Tlalnepantla Production of flavor and fragrance compounds;
flavor and fragrance laboratories.
India  
Chennai(2) Production of flavor compounds and ingredients and
fragrance compounds; flavor laboratories.
Australia  
Dandenong Production of flavor compounds and flavor ingredients.
China  
Guangzhou(4) Production of flavor and fragrance compounds; flavor laboratories.
Shanghai(4) Flavor and fragrance laboratories.
Xin'anjiang (5) Production of fragrance chemical ingredients.

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Location Operation
Indonesia  
Jakarta(3) Production of flavor compounds and ingredients, and fragrance compounds and ingredients; flavor and fragrance laboratories.
Japan  
Gotemba Production of flavor compounds.
Tokyo Flavor and fragrance laboratories.
Singapore  
Jurong Production of flavor and fragrance compounds.
Science Park (1) Flavor and fragrance laboratories.
(1)    Leased.
(2)    The Company has a 93.1% interest in the subsidiary company that owns this facility.
(3)    Land is leased and building is partially leased and partially owned.
(4)    Land is leased and building and machinery and equipment are owned.
(5)    The Company has a 90% interest in the subsidiary Company that leases the land and owns the buildings and machinery.

The principal executive offices of the Company and its New York laboratory facilities are located at 521 West 57th Street, New York City.

ITEM 3.    LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

The Company is subject to various claims and legal actions in the ordinary course of its business.

In September 2001, the Company was named as a defendant in a purported class action brought against it in the Circuit Court of Jasper County, Missouri, on behalf of employees of a plant owned and operated by Gilster-Mary Lee Corp. in Jasper, Missouri (Benavides case). The plaintiffs alleged that they sustained respiratory injuries in the workplace due to the use by Gilster-Mary Lee of a BBA and/or IFF flavor. For purposes of reporting these actions, BBA and/or IFF are referred to as the ‘‘Company’’.

In January 2004, the Court ruled that class action status was not warranted. As a result of this decision, each of the 47 plaintiff cases was to be tried separately. Subsequently, 8 cases were tried to a verdict, 4 verdicts resulted for the plaintiffs and 4 verdicts resulted for the Company, all of which were appealed by the losing party. The 4 cases which resulted in a defense verdict and 1 of the cases which resulted in a plaintiff verdict were subsequently settled, as were the 39 other cases which did not go to trial and/or reach a verdict, the terms of all such settlements being confidential. The 3 remaining plaintiffs’ verdicts are Moenning ($2.74 million), Brand ($15 million) and McNeely ($15 million). The appeal of each of these cases is pending.

Thirteen other actions based on similar claims of alleged respiratory illness due to workplace exposure to flavor ingredients are currently pending against the Company and other flavor suppliers and related companies. The parties remain in the discovery phase in the action brought against the Company and another flavor supplier by 24 former and current workers at a popcorn factory in Marion, Ohio. This case was filed in March 2003 and is pending in the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio (Arthur case). In May 2004, the Company and another flavor supplier were named defendants in a lawsuit by 4 former workers at a Ridgeway, Illinois factory in an action brought in the Circuit Court for the Second Judicial Circuit, Gallatin County, Illinois (Barker case) and another concerning 11 other workers at this same plant was filed in July 2004 and is pending in this same Court against the Company and another flavor supplier (Batteese case). In an action filed in June 2004, the Company, 3 other flavor suppliers, a flavor trade association and a consulting agency are defendants in a lawsuit by 1 worker at a Sioux City, Iowa facility which is pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa (Remmes case). In June 2004, the Company and 3 other

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flavor suppliers were named defendants in a lawsuit by 1 plaintiff brought in the Court of Common Pleas, Hamilton Count, Ohio (Mitchell case). In June 2004, the Company and 3 other flavor suppliers were named defendants in a lawsuit by 1 former worker at a Northlake, Illinois facility in an action brought in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (Lopez case). In August 2004, the Company and another flavor supplier were named defendants in a lawsuit by 16 former workers at a Marion, Ohio factory in an action brought in the Court of Common Pleas, Marion County, Ohio (Williams case). In March 2005, the Company and 10 other companies were named defendants in a lawsuit by 1 former employee of one of the defendants in an action brought in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (Robinson case). In July 2005, the Company and 9 other flavor and chemical suppliers were named defendants in a lawsuit by 1 former worker of a Chicago area facility alleging respiratory injuries due to alleged exposure in the workplace of such facility (Campbell case). In August 2005, the Company and 8 other companies were named defendants in a lawsuit by 3 former employees of the Gilster-Mary Lee facility in McBride, Missouri in the City of St. Louis Circuit Court (Fults case). In September 2005, the Company and 9 other companies were named defendants in a lawsuit by 2 former employees of the Gilster-Mary Lee facility in McBride, Missouri in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County (Bowling case). In November 2005, the Company, a flavor trade association and a consulting agency were named defendants in a lawsuit by 1 former employee of a popcorn facility in Breda, Iowa brought in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Western Division (Weimer case). In January 2006, the Company, three other flavor suppliers, a flavor trade association and a consulting agency were named defendants in a lawsuit by one worker at a Sioux City, Iowa facility filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa (Kuiper case). All these cases remain in the pretrial stage.

The Company believes that all IFF and BBA flavors at issue in these matters meet the requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and are safe for handling and use by workers in food manufacturing plants when used according to specified safety procedures. These procedures are detailed in instructions that IFF and BBA provided to all their customers for the safe handling and use of their flavors. It is the responsibility of IFF’s customers to ensure that these instructions, which include the use of appropriate engineering controls, such as adequate ventilation, proper handling procedures and respiratory protection for workers, are followed in the workplace.

At each balance sheet date, or more frequently as conditions warrant, the Company reviews the status of each pending claim, as well as its insurance coverage for such claims with due consideration given to potentially applicable deductibles, retentions and reservation of rights under its insurance policies, and the advice of its outside legal counsel and a third party expert in modeling insurance deductible amounts with respect to all these matters. While the ultimate outcome of any litigation cannot be predicted, management believes that adequate provision has been made with respect to all known claims. Based on information presently available and in light of the merits of its defenses and the availability of insurance, the Company does not expect the outcome of the above cases, singly or in the aggregate, to have an adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations or liquidity. There can be no assurance that future events will not require the Company to increase the amount it has accrued for any matter or accrue for a matter that has not been previously accrued. See Note 17 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Over the past 20 years, various federal and state authorities and private parties have claimed that the Company is a potentially responsible party as a generator of waste materials for alleged pollution at a number of waste sites operated by third parties located principally in New Jersey and seek to recover costs incurred and to be incurred to clean up the sites.

The waste site claims and suits usually involve million dollar amounts, and most of them are asserted against many potentially responsible parties. Remedial activities typically consist of several phases carried out over a period of years. Most site remedies begin with investigation and feasibility studies, followed by physical removal, destruction, treatment or containment of contaminated soil and debris, and sometimes by groundwater monitoring and treatment. To date, the Company’s financial responsibility for some sites has been settled through agreements granting the Company, in exchange for one or more cash payments made or to be made, either complete release of liability or, for certain sites, release from further liability for early and/or later remediation phases, subject to certain

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‘‘re-opener’’ clauses for later-discovered conditions. Settlements in respect of some sites involve, in part, payment by the Company and other parties of a percentage of the site’s future remediation costs over a period of years.

The Company believes that the amounts it has paid and anticipates paying in the future for clean-up costs and damages at all sites are not and will not be material to the Company’s financial condition, results of operations or liquidity, because of the involvement of other large potentially responsible parties at most sites, because payment will be made over an extended time period and because, pursuant to an agreement reached in July 1994 with three of the Company’s liability insurers, defense costs and indemnity amounts payable by the Company in respect of the sites will be shared by the insurers up to an agreed amount.

ITEM 4.    SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS.

None.

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PART II

ITEM 5.    MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT'S COMMON STOCK AND RELATED SECURITY HOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.

(a) Market Information.

The Company's common stock is traded principally on the New York Stock Exchange. The high and low stock prices for each quarter during the last two years were:


  2005 2004
Quarter High Low High Low
First $ 42.90   $ 38.82   $ 38.40   $ 32.77  
Second   41.29     34.90     37.87     34.37  
Third   38.85     34.34     39.97     35.24  
Fourth   35.72     31.19     43.20     36.12  

(b) Approximate Number of Equity Security Holders.


  (B)
(A)
Title of Class
Number of record holders as of
December 31, 2005
Common stock, par value 12 ½¢ per share   3,207  

(c) Dividends.

Cash dividends declared per share for each quarter since January 2004 were as follows:


  2006 2005 2004
First $ 0.185   $ 0.175   $ 0.160  
Second     0.185     0.175  
Third     0.185     0.175  
Fourth     0.185     0.175  

(e) Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.


  Total Number of
Shares Purchased(1)
Average Price
Paid per Share
Total Number of
Shares Purchased as
Part of Publicly
Announced Programs(2)
Maximum Dollar Value
of Shares that
may yet be Purchased
under the Programs(3)
October     1-31, 2005   425,000   $ 34.60     425,000   $ 177,223,565  
November 1-30, 2005     $       $ 177,223,565  
December 1-31, 2005     $       $ 177,223,565  
(1) An aggregate of 2,587,000 shares of common stock were repurchased during 2005; 1,941,482 and 645,518 shares of common stock were purchased under repurchase programs announced in July 2004 and May 2005, respectively.
(2) In July 2004, the Board of Directors approved the repurchase of up to $100.0 million of the Company’s common stock. This program was completed in August 2005.
(3) In May 2005, the Board of Directors approved the repurchase of up to $200.0 million of the Company’s common stock.

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ITEM 6.    SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA.

INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA (UNAUDITED)
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)


              Net Income Per Share(b)
  Net Sales Gross Profit Net Income(a) Basic Diluted
Quarter 2005 2004 2005 2004 2005 2004 2005 2004 2005 2004
First $ 523,052   $ 535,015   $ 214,655   $ 228,229   $ 52,543   $ 56,358   $ 0.56   $ 0.60   $ 0.55   $ 0.59  
Second   515,578     524,177     216,513     228,461     56,713     56,502     0.60     0.60     0.60     0.59  
Third   493,118     506,229     206,406     217,177     68,572     42,305     0.73     0.45     0.72     0.44  
Fourth   461,645     468,232     186,827     199,551     15,238     40,906     0.16     0.43     0.16     0.43  
  $ 1,993,393   $ 2,033,653   $ 824,401   $ 873,418   $ 193,066   $ 196,071   $ 2.06   $ 2.08   $ 2.04   $ 2.05  
(a) Net income in the 2005 third quarter includes a tax benefit of $23,290 relating to the repatriation of $242,000 of dividends from foreign subsidiaries under the provisions of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004; see Note 10 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion. Net income in the 2005 fourth quarter includes the after-tax effects of certain charges of $15,857. Net income for the 2004 second, third and fourth quarters includes the after-tax effects of certain charges of $5,015, $12,690 and $2,665, respectively. See Note 2 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion.
(b) The sum of the 2005 quarters’ net income per share does not equal the earnings per share for the full year 2005 due to changes in average shares outstanding.

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INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
FIVE-YEAR SUMMARY
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)


  2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
Consolidated Statement of Income Data          
Net sales $ 1,993,393   $ 2,033,653   $ 1,901,520   $ 1,809,249   $ 1,843,766  
Cost of goods sold   1,168,992     1,160,235     1,092,456     1,035,835     1,063,433  
Research and development
expenses
  179,812     175,173     159,286     144,027     135,248  
Selling and administrative expenses   339,323     341,306     308,951     305,156     313,335  
Amortization of goodwill and other
intangibles
  15,071     14,830     12,632     12,632     46,089  
Restructuring and other charges(a)   23,319     31,830     42,421     11,737     30,069  
Interest expense   23,956     24,002     28,477     37,036     70,424  
Other (income) expense, net   (3,268   5,275     5,437     (3,591   (2,609
    1,747,205     1,752,651     1,649,660     1,542,832     1,655,989  
Income before taxes on income   246,188     281,002     251,860     266,417     187,777  
Taxes on income   53,122     84,931     79,263     90,473     71,775  
Net income $ 193,066   $ 196,071   $ 172,597   $ 175,944   $ 116,002  
Percentage of net sales   9.7     9.6     9.1     9.7     6.3  
Percentage of average shareholders' equity   21.1     23.7     26.2     32.0     20.1  
Net income per share – basic $ 2.06   $ 2.08   $ 1.84   $ 1.86   $ 1.21  
Net income per share – diluted $ 2.04   $ 2.05   $ 1.83   $ 1.84   $ 1.20  
Average number of shares (thousands)   93,584     94,143     93,718     94,511     95,770  
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data                              
Cash and short-term investments $ 272,897   $ 32,995   $ 12,555   $ 15,165   $ 48,905  
Receivables, net   368,519     358,361     339,725     338,607     340,358  
Inventories   430,794     457,204     454,631     421,603     415,984  
Property, plant and equipment, net   499,145     501,334     510,612     520,499     532,473  
Goodwill and intangible assets, net   772,651     789,676     799,413     794,079     795,920  
Total assets   2,638,196     2,363,294     2,306,892     2,232,694     2,268,051  
Bank borrowings, overdrafts and                              
current portion of long-term debt   819,392     15,957     194,304     49,663     227,945  
Long-term debt   131,281     668,969     690,231     1,007,085     939,404  
Shareholders' equity   915,347     910,487     742,631     574,678     524,170  
Other Data                              
Current Ratio   1.0     2.4     1.7     2.4     1.6  
Gross additions to property, plant and equipment $ 93,433   $ 70,607   $ 65,955   $ 81,815   $ 52,016  
Depreciation and amortization expense   91,928     90,996     86,721     84,458     123,493  
Cash dividends declared   68,397     64,789     59,032     56,749     57,219  
per share $ 0.730   $ 0.685   $ 0.630   $ 0.600   $ 0.600  
Number of shareholders of record at year-end   3,207     3,419     3,655     3,875     3,394  
Number of employees at year-end   5,160     5,212     5,454     5,728     5,929  
(a) Restructuring and other charges ($15,857 after tax) in 2005, ($20,370 after tax) in 2004, ($27,514 after tax) in 2003,

($7,745 after tax) in 2002 and ($19,101 after tax) in 2001 as a result of various reorganization programs of the Company.

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ITEM 7.  MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.

(DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)

Organization of Information

Management's Discussion and Analysis provides a narrative on the Company's operating performance, financial condition and liquidity and should be read in conjunction with the accompanying financial statements. It includes the following sections:

•  Executive Overview
•  Sales Commentary
•  Operating Results
•  Acquisitions and Divestitures
•  Restructuring and Other Charges
•  Financial Condition
•  Market Risk
•  Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates
•  New Accounting Standards
•  Non-GAAP Financial Measures
•  Cautionary Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

Executive Overview

The Company is a leading creator and manufacturer of flavor and fragrance compounds used to impart or improve the flavor or fragrance in a wide variety of consumer products. The precise size of the global market for flavors and fragrances is difficult to determine because the industry is highly fragmented, both geographically and along product lines; there are few publicly traded companies in the industry; certain customers maintain in-house capabilities fulfilling a portion of their flavor or fragrance needs; and the quality and depth of market information in developing regions of the world is limited. Analysts generally estimate the global market to be $11 - $12 billion of which IFF represents 16 - 18%; the Company's nearest sized competitor is of similar size. The five largest companies in the industry combined represent approximately 65 - 70% of the global market.

Fragrance compounds are used in perfumes, cosmetics, toiletries, hair care products, deodorants, soaps, detergents and softeners as well as air care products. Major fragrance customers include the cosmetics industry, including perfume and toiletries manufacturers, and the household products industry, including manufacturers of soaps, detergents, household cleaners and air fresheners. Flavor products are sold to the food and beverage industries for use in consumer products such as prepared foods, beverages, dairy, food and confectionery products. The Company is also a leading manufacturer of synthetic ingredients used in making fragrances. Approximately 60% of the Company's ingredient production is consumed internally; the balance is sold to third party customers.

Changing social habits resulting from such factors as increases in personal income and dual-earner households, leisure time, health concerns, urbanization and population growth stimulate demand for consumer products utilizing flavors and fragrances. These developments expand the market for products with finer fragrance quality, as well as the market for colognes and toiletries. Such developments also stimulate demand for convenience foods, soft drinks and low-fat food products that must conform to expected tastes. These developments necessitate the creation and development of flavors and fragrances and ingredients that are compatible with newly introduced materials and methods of application used in consumer products.

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Flavors and fragrances are generally:

•  created for the exclusive use of a specific customer;
•  sold in solid or liquid form, in amounts ranging from a few pounds to several tons depending on the nature of the end product in which they are used;
•  a small percentage of the volume and cost of the end product sold to the consumer; and
•  a major factor in consumer selection and acceptance of the product.

Flavors and fragrances have similar economic and operational characteristics, including research and development, the nature of the creative and production processes, the manner in which products are distributed and the type of customer; many of the Company’s customers purchase both flavors and fragrances.

A breakdown of sales by principal product category is depicted in the graph below.

2005 Sales by Category

The Company's five largest customers comprise 32% of consolidated sales and its top thirty customers 56%; these percentages have remained fairly constant for several years. No customer accounts for 10% or more of sales. A key factor for success is inclusion on major customers' core supplier lists opening opportunities to win new business. The Company is currently on the majority of core supplier lists of its major customers; participation in such lists is key to the Company’s strategy for growth.

The flavor and fragrance industry is impacted by macroeconomic factors in all product categories and geographic regions. In addition, pricing pressure placed on the Company's customers by large and powerful retailers and distributors is inevitably passed along to the Company and its competitors. Leadership in innovation and creativity mitigates, to an extent, the impact of pricing pressure. Success and growth in the industry is dependent upon creativity and innovation in meeting the many and varied needs of the customers' products in a cost-efficient and effective manner, and with a consistently high level of timely service and delivery.

The Company produces more than 33,000 unique compounds, of which approximately 60% are flavors and 40% fragrances. The Company continually creates new compounds to meet the changing characteristics and needs of its customers' end products. No single compound represents more than 1.5% of net sales. Development of fragrances and flavors is a complex artistic and technical process calling upon the combined knowledge and talents of creative perfumers and flavorists, and application and research chemists. An important contribution to the creation of new fragrances and flavors is the development of new ingredients. The Company bears essentially all costs incurred in connection with the creation and development of new flavors and fragrances and such formulae are generally protected under trade secrecy. The Company is not materially dependent on any patents, trademarks or licenses.

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The Company's recent strategic focus has been:

•  To integrate Bush Boake Allen Inc. (‘‘BBA’’), acquired in November 2000, and to reorganize the integrated organization under two global umbrellas of Business Development and Operations. Business Development encompasses consumer and market research, product category strategy, product development, global sales and marketing and technical application. Operations are responsible for the customer supply chain.
•  To improve customer service, in terms of both on-time deliveries and responsiveness to new product development initiatives, and to improve the win rate for new business with the Company's customers.
•  To critically evaluate the profitability and growth potential of the Company's product portfolio, and to focus on those categories and customers considered to be the best opportunities for long-term profitable growth.
•  To focus research and development initiatives on those areas considered to be most likely, in the long-term, to yield the greatest value to the Company's customers and shareholders.

In the Company’s view, considerable progress against these strategic initiatives has been achieved. The BBA integration was completed quickly and associated savings exceeded those anticipated at the time the acquisition was announced. Customer service levels have improved to the point where on time deliveries exceed the 95% level, with further improvement targeted. The Company has exited certain non-core businesses, the last of which was sold in 2004. The quality and depth of the Company's research and development efforts have improved significantly. In the period 2003 - 2005, the Company patented numerous new, commercially-viable ingredients for use in flavors and fragrances; fifteen were patented in 2003, nine in 2004 and fifteen in 2005. A number of these newly developed ingredients have been used in flavor and fragrance compounds, and in 2006 new ingredients and technologies are expected to play an important role in meeting the Company’s growth objectives.

Moving forward, the Company is committed to:

•  Research and development efforts in those aspects of flavors and fragrances and associated delivery mechanisms which the Company has identified as most likely to drive profitable future growth. The Company anticipates that much of this research will be conducted internally, but such efforts may be augmented by joint research undertakings and through acquisition of technology. An essential aspect of the overall research efforts is the Company’s continued leadership in sensory science and consumer insight, enabling the creation of consumer-preferred flavors and fragrances.
•  The quality, safety and suitability of its products for inclusion in its customers’ end products; an essential element is the consistent assurance of the quality and safety of raw materials through a combination of steps including but not limited to vendor certification and quality assurance testing.
•  Continuous improvement in operations and customer service supported by the global implementation of the enterprise requirements planning software package (‘‘SAP’’), and related initiatives.

As implementation of the strategy progresses, setting strategic initiatives requires regular establishment and reassessment of identified priorities and necessitates choices in order to provide the best opportunity for continuous improvement in shareholder value.

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Sales Commentary

Net sales for 2005, 2004 and 2003 were as follows:


    Percent
Change
  Percent
Change
 
Net Sales 2005 2004 2003
Flavors $ 857.7         (6 )%  $ 910.6         5 $ 866.5  
Fragrances   1,135.7     1   %    1,123.1     9   1,035.0  
Total net sales $ 1,993.4     (2 )%  $ 2,033.7     7 $ 1,901.5  

The Company manages its operations by major geographical region and considers destination sales a key performance measure. Although reported sales and earnings are affected by the weakening or strengthening of the U.S. dollar, this has not had a long-term effect on the underlying strength of the Company's business.

2005 Sales by Destination

The Company acquired BBA effective November 3, 2000. In conjunction with the integration of BBA, and as part of restructuring the Company, certain non-core businesses (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘non-core businesses’’) were disposed of including the fruit preparations businesses in Europe, North and Latin America; the North American concentrates business and a portion of the aroma chemicals business acquired in the BBA transaction. The non-core businesses were disposed of in a series of transactions with third parties; disposal of these businesses did not materially impact the Company's operating results. The North American concentrates business was disposed of in 2002 and the European fruit preparation business in 2004; the other non-core businesses were disposed of in 2001.

The following table summarizes reported sales on a geographic basis and reflects adjustments, as appropriate, to exclude sales attributable to the non-core businesses; adjusted sales are the basis on which the Company measures its operating performance:


    Percent
Change
  Percent
Change
 
Sales by Destination 2005 2004 2003
North America $ 571.7         (4 )%  $ 598.6         9 $ 550.1  
Europe   739.0     (6 )%    790.3     4   761.7  
Asia Pacific   348.1     2   %    342.9     10   311.9  
Latin America   262.4     10   %    238.6     7   223.6  
India   72.2     14   %    63.3     17   54.2  
Total net sales, as reported $ 1,993.4     (2 )%  $ 2,033.7     7 $ 1,901.5  
Less: European fruit preparations           (58.3       (92.3
Total net sales, as adjusted $ 1,993.4     1   %  $ 1,975.4     9 $ 1,809.2  

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Net sales below are adjusted to exclude all sales associated with the non-core businesses:


  As Adjusted
2005
Percent
Change
As Adjusted
2004
Percent
Change
As Adjusted
2003
Net Sales
Flavors $ 857.7         1 $ 852.3         10 $ 774.2  
Fragrances   1,135.7     1   1,123.1     9   1,035.0  
Total net sales, as adjusted $ 1,993.4     1 $ 1,975.4     9 $ 1,809.2  

2005 in Comparison to 2004

In 2005, reported sales declined 2% in dollars and 3% in local currency compared to 2004. The sales performance was led by strong growth in fine fragrances driven mainly by new product wins. Flavor sales comparisons in 2005 were impacted by the disposition, in the second half of 2004, of the Company’s European fruit preparations business. On an as-adjusted basis, excluding sales attributable to the fruit business from 2004 results, both 2005 consolidated sales and flavor sales would have increased 1% in dollars and been flat in local currency. Flavor sales, most notably in North America and Europe, were also unfavorably impacted by lower selling prices for naturals, mainly vanilla.

Regional sales performance for 2005 was as follows:

•  North America fragrance and flavor sales declined 1% and 7%, respectively; in total, regional sales declined 4%. Fine fragrance and aroma chemical sales increased 4% and 3%, respectively, while functional fragrance sales declined 8%. Fine fragrance growth resulted from $14.5 in new wins, although this growth was partially offset by erosion of existing products of $10.2. Functional fragrance sales realized new wins of $10.2 though such growth was offset by erosion in existing products of $20.5. Flavors reported new product introductions of $21.3 partially offset by erosion in existing products of $18.6.
•  Europe sales declined 6% in dollars and 8% in local currency; reported dollar sales benefited from the strength of the Euro and the Pound Sterling versus the U.S. dollar. Fragrance sales increased 2% in dollars and were flat in local currency. Local currency fine fragrance sales increased 13%, driven primarily by new wins, while functional fragrances and aroma chemicals declined 6% and 7%, respectively. Flavor sales declined 18% in dollars and 19% in local currency, mainly as a result of the disposition of the fruit preparations business. On an as-adjusted basis, excluding sales attributable to the fruit business from 2004 results, 2005 flavor sales would have been flat in dollars and decreased 1% in local currency.
•  Asia Pacific sales increased 2% in dollars and 1% in local currency; flavor sales increased 4% in dollars and 3% in local currency, while fragrance sales declined 2% in both dollars and local currency. Flavor sales were strongest in Greater China, Indonesia and Vietnam, with respective local currency increases of 15%, 7% and 46%; flavor growth was driven by new wins of $4.5. Fragrance sales growth was strongest in Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines with respective local currency increases of 16%, 16%, 56% and 8%; this growth was offset by local currency sales declines in Australia, Thailand and Singapore/Malaysia of 12%, 17% and 16%, respectively. Fragrance wins in the region totaled $2.9.
•  Latin American sales increased 10% with fragrance and flavor sales increasing 7% and 21%, respectively. Flavor sales were strongest in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, which grew 33%, 27% and 22%, respectively, while fragrances were led by an 8% increase in Mexico and increases of 12% in Argentina and 7% in Brazil. Fragrance sales grew in all categories with functional fragrance sales increasing 7% while fine fragrance and aroma chemicals increased 4% and 7%, respectively. The performance was driven mainly by new wins of $17.7 in fragrances and $9.2 in flavors.

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•  India sales increased 14% in both local currency and reported dollars. This performance was led by a 16% local currency increase in flavor sales with fragrance sales increasing 12%. In both flavors and fragrances, the sales performance reflected the benefit of new wins and continued strong economic conditions.

2004 in Comparison to 2003

In 2004, reported sales increased 7%. Reported sales benefited from the strengthening of various currencies in relation to the U.S. dollar; had exchange rates remained constant, sales would have increased 2% in comparison to the prior year. Reported sales were strongest in fragrances, led by a 13% increase in fine fragrance sales; sales of aroma chemicals and fragrances used in functional products each increased 7%. The sales performance was impacted by the disposition of the Company’s European fruit preparations business, which was sold to Frutarom Industries Ltd. (‘‘Frutarom’’) in the second half of the year. On an as-adjusted basis, excluding sales attributable to the European fruit businesses from the 2004 and 2003 results, consolidated sales would have increased 5% in local currency and 9% in reported dollars.

Flavor and fragrance sales increased in all geographic regions, although growth in Europe resulted from currency translation; sales performance by region was as follows:

•  North America fragrance sales grew 9% while flavor sales increased 8%; the region grew 9%, mainly driven by new wins. Fragrance sales increased in all categories, led by a 20% increase in aroma chemical sales, while fine and functional fragrance sales increased 6% and 7%, respectively. The aroma chemical sales increase was volume driven while growth in fine fragrances resulted from $7.0 in new wins. Functional fragrance sales realized new wins of $16.0, partially offset by erosion in existing products of $6.0. Flavors reported new product introductions of $30.0, partially offset by volume and erosion in existing products.
•  European fragrance sales increased 8%, although this performance was partially offset by a 2% decline in flavor sales; in total, regional sales increased 4%. Reported sales benefited from the strength of the Euro and Pound Sterling; local currency sales declined 5%. Local currency fragrance sales declined 2%; fine fragrance sales increased 5% offset by a 1% decrease in sales of functional fragrances and a 10% decline in aroma chemical sales. The fine fragrance performance was driven by a number of new product wins. Fine and functional fragrances reported new product introductions of $40.0, partially offset by the effects of erosion in existing products. Local currency flavor sales declined 10%, mainly as a result of the disposition of the fruit preparations business. On an as-adjusted basis, excluding sales attributable to the fruit business for 2004 and 2003, flavor sales would have increased 11% in dollars and 2% in local currency, mainly due to new wins.
•  Reported sales in Asia Pacific increased 10%, based on 6% sales growth in local currency; the currency benefit was mainly attributable to the strength of the Japanese Yen and the Australian dollar. Local currency fragrance sales increased 3% in comparison to the prior year, resulting in a 7% increase in reported dollars, driven mainly by new wins of $6.0. Local currency flavor sales increased 7%, resulting in a 13% increase in reported dollars. The performance reflects the benefit of both new wins and volume increases in existing products. For the region, sales growth was strongest in Greater China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan, with respective local currency increases of 17%, 47%, 9% and 8%, while Japan sales grew 3%.
•  Latin American sales increased 7%; fragrance and flavor sales increased 9% and 3%, respectively. Sales growth was strongest in Venezuela, Central America, Argentina and Colombia which grew 33%, 15%, 12% and 9%, respectively. Fragrance sales were led by a 23% increase in aroma chemicals, while sales of fine and functional fragrances increased 12% and 6%, respectively. Fragrance sales were driven by new wins and volume increases while the flavor increase was mainly volume driven.
•  India sales increased 15% in local currency and 17% in reported dollars. Local currency fragrance sales increased 12%, resulting in a 16% increase in reported dollars. Flavor sales increased 18% in local currency, resulting in a 19% increase in reported dollars. In both flavors and fragrances, the sales performance reflected the benefit of new wins.

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Operating Results

The percentage relationship of cost of goods sold and other operating expenses to reported sales is detailed in the following table.


  2005 2004 2003
Cost of goods sold   58.6   57.1   57.5
Research and development expenses   9.0   8.6   8.4
Selling, general and administrative expenses   17.0   16.8   16.2

Cost of goods sold includes the cost of materials and manufacturing expenses; raw materials generally constitute 70% of the total. Research expenses are for the development of new and improved products, technical product support, compliance with governmental regulations, and help in maintaining relationships with customers who are often dependent on technological advances. Selling, general and administrative expenses support the Company's sales and operating levels.

Segment profit, which excludes the effect of restructuring and other charges, was $290.2 in 2005, $342.1 in 2004 and $328.2 in 2003. The Company recorded restructuring and other charges of $23.3, $31.8 and $42.4 in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Operating profit totaled $266.9, $310.3 and $285.8 in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

2005 in Comparison to 2004

Cost of goods sold, as a percentage of sales, increased 150 basis points compared with 2004, mainly due to higher raw material costs which the Company was not able to fully recover through increased selling prices; overall, the average cost of raw materials purchased by the Company increased 5% – 6% in comparison to the prior year. Gross margin was also negatively impacted by costs attributable to a vendor-supplied raw material contamination issue; cost of sales include $3.0 in related costs, comprised mainly of associated testing costs and the write-off of affected materials. Cost of goods sold was also impacted by lower expense absorption attributable to the facility closure in Dijon and the cost of transfer of related production to other manufacturing locations; production at the Dijon facility ceased in March 2005.

Research and Development (‘‘R&D’’) expenses increased to 9.0% of sales, consistent with the Company’s stated intention to expand its research initiatives; spending in 2006 is expected to remain at approximately 9.0% of sales.

Selling, General and Administrative (‘‘SG&A’’) expenses, as a percentage of sales, increased to 17.0% from 16.8%. SG&A expenses include $8.5 million related to the cost of customer damages attributable to the raw material contamination issue. The Company is seeking full indemnification from its supplier, the supplier’s insurers and, to the extent necessary, its own insurers, but no related insurance receivable has been recorded. SG&A expenses also include $5.1 in equity compensation expense compared to $5.0 million in the prior year. These costs were partially offset by lower accruals under the Company’s various incentive plans.

In 2005, cost of goods sold and SG&A include $2.2 and $4.5, respectively, incurred in connection with the implementation of SAP; these costs relate to training and data conversion and are charged to operating expenses as incurred. Implementation of SAP is essentially complete at December 31, 2005.

2004 in Comparison to 2003

Cost of goods sold, as a percentage of sales, declined 40 basis points compared with 2003. The improvement resulted from a combination of improved sales performance, and better product mix from improved fine fragrance sales and the disposition of the lower margin European fruit business. The Company benefited from the elimination of 48 manufacturing positions in North America and Europe which resulted in savings of approximately $2.1. The above benefits were partially offset by poor operating performance by the European fruit business for the period of time owned by the Company, and by weak absorption of expenses resulting from the transfer of production from the Company’s facility in Dijon, France to other manufacturing plants.

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R&D expenses increased to 8.6% of sales, as the Company continued to expand its research initiatives. This increase is mainly as a result of the elimination of the fruit preparations business; relative to other parts of the Company’s business, fruit preparations required less R&D as a percentage of sales.

SG&A expenses, as a percentage of sales, increased to 16.8% from 16.2%; mainly from inclusion of $5.0 in equity compensation expense for which there was no comparable amount in the 2003 results, and higher expense accruals under the Company’s incentive compensation plans, based on sales and operating performance. The increase in Global Expenses, as reported in Note 13 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements, mainly related to these expenses. In May 2004, the Company began using Restricted Stock Units (‘‘RSU’s’’), rather than stock options, as an element of the Company’s incentive compensation plans for all eligible U.S. - based employees and a majority of eligible overseas employees; previously, options had not been expensed as permitted under applicable accounting guidance. Vesting of the RSU’s for senior management is performance and time based; for the remainder of eligible employees, vesting is time based (generally over a three-year period).

In 2004, cost of goods sold and SG&A include $1.4 and $3.8, respectively, incurred in connection with the implementation of SAP.

Interest Expense

Interest expense totaled $24.0, $24.0 and $28.5 in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The average interest rate was 3.3%, 3.2% and 3.0% in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Gross borrowings at December 31, 2005 increased in comparison to the prior year in connection with repatriation of foreign earnings under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (‘‘AJCA’’). More information on debt and interest rate management is contained in Note 9 and Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Other (Income) Expense, Net

Other (income) expense, net was $3.3 income in 2005, $5.3 expense in 2004 and $5.4 expense in 2003. In 2005, income resulted primarily from exchange gains and higher levels of interest income earned on higher cash balances. Exchange gains or (losses) were $2.8, ($2.9) and $1.6 in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The exchange losses in 2004 were mainly the result of the Company having U.S. dollar positions in Europe and Latin America which resulted in exchange losses upon the weakening of the U.S. dollar in comparison to the Euro and other currencies. In 2003, the Company repurchased $200.7 of long-term notes otherwise scheduled to mature in May 2006; purchases were made through a series of open market transactions, funded with commercial paper. As a result, the Company incurred a net loss of $4.2 which is included in Other (income) expense, net.

Income Taxes

The effective tax rate for 2005 was 21.6%, compared to 30.2% for 2004 and 31.5% for 2003. The 2005 rate was significantly reduced as a result of a tax benefit associated with the AJCA. The AJCA, enacted on October 22, 2004, provided for a special one-time tax deduction of 85% of dividends received on eligible repatriated foreign earnings; the deduction resulted in an approximate 5.25% federal tax rate on these earnings. Full year 2005 results include a net tax benefit of $24.7 relating to the Company's repatriation of $242.0 million of dividends from foreign subsidiaries under the provisions of AJCA. Excluding the benefit of AJCA, the effective tax rate for 2005 would have been 31.6%.

The fluctuating rate over the three-year period is primarily the result of tax planning initiatives and the benefit of combining various IFF and BBA legal entities into a single tax structure. In the period 2003 - 2005, the tax rate also benefited from restructuring and other charges, most of which were incurred in higher tax jurisdictions.

Acquisitions and Divestitures

In 2004, the Company sold its European fruit preparations business which manufactured processed fruit and other natural product preparations used in a variety of food products. Sales of

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fruit preparations in 2004, 2003 and 2002 were $58.3, $92.3 and $72.2; operating profit was $5.6, $12.4 and $6.3, respectively. Proceeds from the sale were $40.0, including assumption of certain liabilities; cash proceeds were used to reduce borrowings.

In 2003, the Company acquired 70% of the outstanding shares of Celessence International Ltd. (‘‘Celessence’’), a company engaged in the development and distribution of encapsulation and delivery systems for use in fragrance and other applications, for $6.4. The acquisition was accounted for as a purchase business combination. The principal Celessence asset is a process technology patent included in other intangible assets that is being amortized over its estimated remaining useful life. Celessence results, which are not material, are included in the consolidated results of the Company from acquisition date.

Movements in acquisition accounting accruals were:


  Employee-
Related
Asset-Related
and Other
  Total  
Balance January 1, 2003 $ 6.0   $ 1.1   $ 7.1  
Cash and other costs   (3.6   (1.1   (4.7
Balance December 31, 2003   2.4         2.4  
Cash and other costs   (2.4       (2.4
Balance December 31, 2004 $   $   $  

At December 31, 2005 and 2004, goodwill and other intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization, totaled $772.7 and $789.7, respectively. The Company completed its annual assessments in 2005, 2004 and 2003, concluding that it has no impairment of goodwill or other intangible assets. Additional details are contained in Note 5 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Restructuring and Other Charges

Since 1999, the Company has undertaken a series of actions associated with the closure of Company facilities and elimination of various employee positions. As an element of this program, the Company offered a voluntary early retirement incentive to certain U.S. - based employees in the fourth quarter of 1999 with notification of acceptance in the first quarter of 2000; 71 employees accepted, resulting in pre-tax charges of $9.3 in 2000.

In mid-2000, senior management changed, after which the Company conducted a comprehensive analysis of its business development, research and development, and operating activities and associated staffing levels. In October 2000, the Company announced a significant reorganization entailing the elimination of multiple layers of management, closure of certain manufacturing facilities to improve capacity utilization, and the intended disposal of certain non-core businesses. The integration of BBA into IFF and the reorganization proceeded concurrently.

An element of the reorganization was a second voluntary early retirement program extended to U.S. - based employees, which 85 employees accepted, resulting in pre-tax charges of $14.5. An additional 41 employees were terminated by eliminating duplicate management positions at corporate, regional and affiliate locations, resulting in the Company recording pre-tax charges of $17.5. In 2000, a total of 197 employees were severed and the Company recorded pre-tax charges totaling $41.3, comprised of:

•  The first early retirement plan – $9.3;
•  The second early retirement plan – $14.5; and
•  Other reorganization costs – $17.5.

During 2001, the Company sold its fruit preparation business in the United States and Brazil and closed IFF operations in Hong Kong, South Africa, Chile, Venezuela, Kenya, Texas and Oregon. As a result, 465 employees were severed and the Company recorded pre-tax charges totaling $30.1; $10.1 related to employee terminations and $20.0 related to location closures and asset write-downs.

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During 2002, the Company closed IFF operations in Australia, discontinued fragrance compounding in Japan and sold its fruit concentrate business. As a result, 148 employees were severed and the Company recorded pre-tax charges of $11.7; $4.3 related to employee severance and $7.4 related to location closures and asset write-downs.

In 2003, the Company further eliminated duplicate employment functions and processes, including several senior corporate positions as well as at global, regional and local levels. The Company eliminated 321 positions and recorded pre-tax charges of $42.4; $38.0 related to employee terminations and $4.4 related to location closures and asset write-downs. The 2003 asset-related charges related principally to final quantification of costs for previous actions taken.

In 2004, the Company disposed of its European fruit preparations business. In addition, the Company closed its Canadian manufacturing facility and committed to the closure of its manufacturing facility in Dijon, France; the Dijon facility closed in 2005, on completion of transfer of production to other plants. As a result, the Company eliminated 302 positions, and recognized pre-tax charges of $31.8, of which $25.8 related to employee terminations and $6.0 to location closures and asset write-downs, and other related reorganization actions; the asset-related charges were net of gains of $16.3 related to the sale of the fruit businesses and Canadian facility. An additional 129 employees left the Company in 2005 on closure of the Dijon facility.

In 2005, the Company undertook to eliminate approximately 300 positions in manufacturing, selling, research and administration functions, principally in its European and North American operating regions. The majority of affected positions involve employee separation while the balance relates to open positions that will not be filled. As a result of these actions, the Company anticipates recording pre-tax restructuring charges of $25 million to $30 million relating primarily to employee separation expenses; $23.3 million was recognized in 2005. The remaining charges are expected to be recognized in 2006. Annual savings from these actions are expected to approximate $16 million to $18 million.

With respect to all restructuring and other charges:

•  Separation costs for the employees relate primarily to severance, outplacement and other benefit costs;
•  Asset write-down charges relate to establishment of the new carrying value for assets held for sale or disposal; and
•  Other costs include lease termination costs and other reorganization expenses incurred to affect either the employee separation or location closure.

The charges above exclude all charges associated with the integration of BBA where such costs were incurred in connection with the closure of BBA facilities or the elimination of BBA employees.

In Europe, the total reductions include 194 positions eliminated with the sale of the Fruit business in 2004 and, in 2005 the elimination of 129 positions related to the closure of the Dijon facility. Positions eliminated by region in each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005 were as follows.


  2005 2004 2003
North America   140     56     81  
Europe   261     234     97  
Asia Pacific   22     11     120  
Latin America   4     1     19  
India   2         4  
Total   429     302     321  

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Charges by region in each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005 were:


  2005 2004 2003
North America $ 10.0   $ 7.6   $ 20.2  
Europe   10.6     23.5     16.9  
Asia Pacific   1.2     0.7     3.6  
Latin America   0.5         1.3  
India   1.0         0.4  
Total $ 23.3   $ 31.8   $ 42.4  

Movements in related accruals in each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005 were:


  Employee-
Related
Asset-Related
and Other
Total
Balance January 1, 2003 $ 3.4   $ 0.4   $ 3.8  
Additional charges   38.0     4.4     42.4  
Cash and other costs   (21.8   (3.3   (25.1
Balance December 31, 2003   19.6     1.5     21.1  
Additional charges   25.8     22.3     48.1  
Cash and other costs   (17.2   (8.9   (26.1
Balance December 31, 2004   28.2     14.9     43.1  
Additional charges   22.0     1.3     23.3  
Cash and other costs   (20.7   (11.3   (32.0
Balance December 31, 2005 $ 29.5   $ 4.9   $ 34.4  

The 2004 asset-related charges exclude gains of $16.3 arising on the sale of the fruit businesses and Canadian facility; such gains were accounted for in determining Restructuring and other charges of $31.8 reported in 2004.

The employee-related liabilities are expected to be utilized by 2008 as obligations are satisfied; asset-related charges are expected to be utilized in 2007 on final decommissioning and disposal of affected equipment.

Financial Condition

Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaled $272.9 at December 31, 2005 compared to $33.0 and $12.6 at December 31, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The cash balance at December 31, 2005 increased as a result of the repatriation of funds under AJCA. Working capital totaled ($11.4) at year-end 2005, compared to $561.8 and $376.6 at December 31, 2004 and 2003, respectively. The change in 2005 relates primarily to an increase in current debt due to the maturity in May 2006 of the $499.3 in 6.45% Notes. Gross additions to property, plant and equipment were $93.4, $70.6 and $66.0 in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively, and are expected to approximate $70.0 in 2006.

At December 31, 2005, the Company had $950.7 of debt outstanding, including $7.9 in deferred gains and mark-to-market adjustments on interest rate swap transactions. Debt, excluding the deferred swap gains, includes $499.2 of 6.45% Notes maturing in May 2006, $314.6 in bank borrowings and overdrafts and $129.0 in long-term Japanese Yen denominated debt. The Company is developing plans for both short-term financing and the potential issuance of additional long-term instruments on maturity of the Notes.

In 2005, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries entered into a revolving credit agreement (the "Agreement" or the ‘‘Facility’’) with certain banks which replaced existing credit facilities. The Agreement provides for a five-year US $350,000,000 (‘‘Tranche A’’) and Euro 400,000,000 (‘‘Tranche B’’) multi-currency revolving credit facility. Tranche A is available for commercial paper backstop and general corporate purposes; Tranche B is available to European subsidiaries for general corporate

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purposes. Borrowings under the Facility bear interest at an annual rate of LIBOR (London Inter Bank Offer Rate) (or in relation to any Euro-denominated loans, EURIBOR, European Inter Bank Offer Rate) plus a margin, currently 20 basis points, linked to the credit rating of the Company. The Company pays a commitment fee on the aggregate unused commitments and a utilization fee based on amounts outstanding under the Facility; such fees are not material. The Facility contains various affirmative and negative covenants customary in a facility of this type, including a covenant requiring the Company to maintain, at the end of each fiscal quarter, a ratio of net debt for borrowed money to EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) in respect of the previous 12-month period of not more than 3.25 to 1. The Company has complied with this covenant at all times.

Unless extended, the Agreement will expire on November 22, 2010. The Company may request an extension of the Facility for up to two years beyond the original term. In the event of default, the lenders may terminate the Agreement and declare any principal amount then outstanding and all accrued interest, fees and other amounts payable under the Agreement to be immediately due and payable. Defaults under the Agreement which could result in the acceleration by the lenders of the obligations of the Company Parties include a change of control of the Company (as defined in the Facility Agreement) and certain acquisitions made in contemplation of a merger where, as a direct result of the acquisition, the public debt rating of the Company quoted by Moody’s or S&P (including any change in terms of its outlook) is a lower rating than its public debt rating immediately prior to such acquisition.

In July 2004 and May 2005, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized share repurchase programs of $100.0 and $200.0, respectively. Under various programs, the Company repurchased 2.6 million shares in 2005 and 1.8 million shares in each of 2004 and 2003, at a cost of $98.3, $66.5 and $55.4, respectively. Average per share cost of shares acquired in 2005, 2004 and 2003 was $38.01, $36.89 and $31.66, respectively. The Company completed the July 2004 repurchase plan in August 2005 and as of December 31, 2005 had repurchased approximately 0.6 million shares under the May 2005 plan. At December 31, 2005, the Company had $177.2 remaining under the May 2005 plan, representing approximately 5.1 million shares based on a stock price of $35.00 per share. Repurchased shares will be available for use in connection with the Company’s employee benefit plans and for other general corporate purposes.

The dividend paid per share in 2005, 2004 and 2003 was $.72, $.67 and $.62, respectively. In January and April 2005, the Company paid a quarterly cash dividend of $.175 per share to shareholders. In May 2005, the Board of Directors increased the annual dividend by 5.7% to $.74 per share effective with the dividend paid in July 2005. The Company paid dividends totaling $67.8, $63.2 and $58.2 in 2005, 2004 and 2003. The Company's current intention is to pay dividends approximating 30 - 35% of yearly earnings; however, the payment of dividends is determined by the Board in its discretion based on various factors.

The cumulative translation adjustment component of Accumulated other comprehensive income was ($47.4) at December 31, 2005, compared to $8.2 at December 31, 2004. The change results principally from the strengthening of the U.S. dollar against the Euro, the Japanese Yen and the Australian dollar during 2005. The Minimum pension liability adjustment component of Accumulated other comprehensive income was ($100.4) at December 31, 2005, compared to ($110.7) at December 31, 2004. The accumulated loss on derivatives qualifying as hedges was ($2.6) at December 31, 2005 compared to ($5.7) at December 31, 2004.

Compliance with existing governmental requirements regulating the discharge of materials into the environment has not materially affected the Company's operations, earnings or competitive position. In 2005, the Company spent $20.4 on capital projects and $14.7 in operating expenses and governmental charges for the purpose of complying with such regulations. Expenditures for these purposes will continue for the foreseeable future. In addition, the Company is party to a number of proceedings brought under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act or similar state statutes. It is expected that the impact of any judgments in or voluntary settlements of such proceedings will not be material to the Company's financial condition, results of operations or liquidity.

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At December 31, 2005, the Company has contractual payment obligations due within the time periods as specified in the following table:


  Payments Due
Contractual Obligations Total 2006 2007-2008 2009-2010 2011 and
thereafter
Borrowings(1) $ 680.0   $ 551.0   $ 113.4   $   $ 15.6  
Interest on borrowings(1)   31.5     24.2     6.0     0.9     0.4  
Operating leases(2)   309.6     21.7     38.2     30.8     218.9  
Purchase commitments(3)   13.9     13.7     0.2          
Pension funding obligations(4)   49.1     24.8     5.4     5.4     13.5  
Post-retirement obligations(4)   48.8     3.9     8.3     9.1     27.5  
Total $ 1,132.9   $ 639.3   $ 171.5   $ 46.2   $ 275.9  
(1) See Note 9 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a further discussion of the Company’s various borrowing facilities.
(2) Operating leases include facility and other lease commitments executed in the normal course of the business. Additional details concerning the United States facilities are contained in Note 8 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements and further details concerning worldwide aggregate operating leases are contained in Note 17 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
(3) Purchase obligations and capital project commitments not recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.
(4) See Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a further discussion of the Company’s retirement plans. Anticipated funding obligations are based on current actuarial assumptions. Funding requirements reported in the above table do not extend beyond 2015.

The Company anticipates that all financing requirements will be funded from operations and credit facilities currently in place. Cash flows from operations or credit facilities are currently expected to be sufficient to fund the Company's anticipated capital spending, dividends and other requirements for the next 12 - 18 months. The Company currently anticipates reducing borrowings by approximately $200.0 in 2006. In comparison, borrowings were reduced by approximately $185.0 and $145.0 in 2004 and 2003, respectively.

Market Risk

The Company is exposed to market risk from foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates and commodity price fluctuations. The Company evaluates and manages volatility relating to these exposures on a global basis to take advantage, where applicable, of netting opportunities that may exist. Identified net exposures are managed employing a number of techniques including, but not limited to, borrowings in local currencies and the use of certain derivative instruments.

The Company operates on a global basis and is exposed to currency fluctuation related to the manufacture and sale of its products in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. The major foreign currencies involve the markets in the European Union, Mexico, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Australia and Japan, although all regions are subject to foreign currency fluctuations versus the U.S. dollar. The Company actively monitors its foreign currency exposures in all major markets in which it operates, and employs a variety of techniques to mitigate the impact of exchange rate fluctuations, including foreign currency hedging activities. The Company enters into foreign currency forward contracts with the objective of reducing exposure to cash flow volatility associated with foreign currency receivables and payables, and with anticipated purchases of certain raw materials used in operations. These contracts, the counterparties to which are major international financial institutions, generally involve the exchange of one currency for a second currency at a future date, and have maturities not exceeding six months. The notional amount and maturity dates of such contracts match those of the underlying transactions. The gain or loss on the hedging instrument is recorded in earnings at the same time as the transaction being hedged is recorded in earnings. The associated asset or liability on the open hedge instrument is recorded in Current Assets or Current Liabilities, as applicable.

The Company employs various interest rate swaps and debt issuances with the objective of managing and optimizing its interest rate exposure. In 2001, the Company entered into certain interest

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swap agreements effectively converting the fixed coupon rate on its 6.45% Notes to a variable short-term rate based on the LIBOR plus an interest markup. In response to changes in market conditions and the value of the swaps, and in 2003, in connection with the Company's debt repurchase, the Company periodically amended the swap agreements, changing the related interest spread. As a result of these amendments, the counterparty paid the Company $11.6 and $56.5 in 2003 and 2002, respectively, including accrued interest of $3.7 and $6.5, respectively. The net realized gains on the swaps have been deferred, classified as a separate component of debt, and are amortized as a reduction in interest expense over the remaining term of the Notes. In 2003, the Company terminated all such swap agreements; as a result, the interest rate on the Notes, including amortization of the deferred swap gains, was fixed at 3.4% through maturity.

The Company has executed a 10-year Yen - U.S. dollar currency swap related to the monthly sale and purchase of products between the U.S. and Japan. The annual notional value of this swap is approximately $5.0. Gains and losses related to this swap are recorded currently, and the mark-to-market adjustment related to the value of the swap is reflected as a component of Accumulated other comprehensive income.

In 2002, the Company entered into certain interest rate swap agreements effectively converting the fixed rate on its long-term Japanese Yen borrowings to a variable short-term rate based on the Japanese Yen LIBOR rate plus an interest markup. These swaps are designated as qualified fair value hedges. During 2003 and 2005, the Company amended the swaps and the counterparty paid the Company $3.0 and $0.8, respectively, including accrued interest of $0.5 and $0.1, respectively. In both cases, these net gains have been deferred, are classified as a separate component of debt and are being amortized over the remaining term of the debt. To the extent the Company has not received cash or otherwise amended or settled any swap agreements, any applicable mark-to-market adjustment relating to that swap is included as a separate component of debt. The Company had no ineffective interest rate swaps at December 31, 2005.

Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates

Preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (‘‘GAAP’’) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect reported amounts and accompanying disclosures. These estimates are based on management’s best judgment of current events and actions that the Company may undertake in the future. Actual results may ultimately differ from estimates, although management does not believe such changes will materially affect the financial statements in any individual year.

Those areas requiring the greatest degree of management judgment or deemed most critical to the Company’s financial reporting involve:

The periodic assessment of potential impairment of intangible assets acquired in business combinations.    The Company currently has net intangible assets, including goodwill, of $772.7. Goodwill is evaluated for impairment annually. In assessing its intangible assets, management uses the most current actual and forecasted operating data available, current market based assumptions and independent valuation experts. A two step approach is employed. The first step involves estimating the value of reporting units based on the present value of estimated future cash flows. The second step, if necessary, is to measure the value of the impairment loss, if any. Management’s most subjective assumptions relate to the estimated/projected sales and operating growth values employed in the forecast.

The analysis and evaluation of collectibility of accounts receivable.    The Company sells to large global and regional firms. The majority of sales are either made-to-order or products that the Company also employs in its own manufacturing process as a raw material. Judgment is required in assessing the realization of receivable balances, including assessment of the creditworthiness of the customers, and in evaluating varying circumstances that may impact the financial stability of a customer. Allowances for loss on collection are established based on currently available relevant facts, and are reevaluated and adjusted as additional information becomes available. The Company’s historical experience indicates the allowance recorded has been sufficient to cover any reasonably expected potential loss.

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The analysis and evaluation of income taxes.    The Company accounts for taxes in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 109 (‘‘FAS 109’’), Accounting for Income Taxes. Under FAS 109, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on temporary differences between financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities, based on tax laws as currently enacted. The provision for income taxes is based on domestic and international statutory income taxes rates and planning opportunities available in the various tax jurisdictions where the Company operates. Significant judgment is required in determining income tax provisions and tax positions. The Company may be challenged upon review by the applicable taxing authority and positions taken by the Company may not be sustained. The Company regularly updates these accruals in light of changing facts and circumstances.

The evaluation of potential legal and environmental liabilities, where changing circumstances, rules and regulations require regular reassessment of related practices and anticipated costs.    The Company is subject to certain legal claims regarding products and other matters, as well as environmental-related matters. Significant management judgment is involved in determining when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the extent to which it can be reasonably estimated.

The Company regularly assesses potential liabilities with respect to all legal claims based on the most recent available information, in consultation with outside counsel handling the defense of such matters, and other relevant independent experts. To the extent a liability is deemed to have been incurred and can be reasonably estimated, the Company recognizes a corresponding liability; if the reasonably estimated liability is a range, the Company recognizes that amount considered most likely, or in the absence of such a determination, the minimum reasonably expected liability. To the extent such claims are covered by various insurance policies, the Company separately evaluates the likelihood of recovery and accounts for any related insurance receivable. Management judgments involve determination as to whether a liability has been incurred, the reasonably estimated amount of that liability, and any potential insurance recovery.

The Company regularly evaluates its potential environmental exposure in terms of total estimated cost and with respect to the viability of other potentially responsible parties (‘‘PRP’s’’) associated with its exposure. Recorded liabilities are adjusted periodically as remediation efforts progress and additional information becomes available. Critical management assumptions relate to expected total costs to remediate and the financial viability of PRP’s to share such costs.

Determination of the various assumptions employed in the valuation of pension and retiree health care expense and associated obligations.    Amounts recognized in the Consolidated Financial Statements related to pension and other postretirement benefits are determined from actuarial valuations. Inherent in such valuations are assumptions including expected return on plan assets, discount rates at which the liabilities could be settled, rates of increase in future compensation levels, mortality rates and health care cost trend rates. These assumptions are updated annually and are disclosed in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements. In accordance with GAAP, actual results that differ from the assumptions are accumulated and amortized over future periods and, therefore, affect expense recognized and obligations recorded in future periods.

With respect to the U.S. plans, the expected return on plan assets was determined based on an asset allocation model using the current benchmark allocation, real rates of return by asset class and an anticipated inflation rate. The benchmark asset allocation was: 10 - 20% in cash and fixed income investments expected to yield 1.1%; 10 - 20% employed in corporate and government bonds expected to yield 1.7 - 2.8%; and 65 - 75% in equity investments with a long-term expected yield of 8.5 - 9.1%. The inflation rate assumed in the model was 2.5%. The plan has achieved a compound annual rate of return of 9.2% over the previous 15 years. The expected annual rate of return for the non-U.S. plans employs a similar set of criteria adapted for local investments, inflation rates and in certain cases specific government requirements. The discount rate used for determining future pension obligations for each individual plan is based on a review of long-term bonds that receive a high rating from a recognized rating agency. Additionally, for the U.S. Plan,

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the discount rate was based on the internal rate of return for a portfolio of Moody’s Aa3-rated high quality bonds with maturities that are consistent with the projected future benefit payment obligations of the plan. The rate of compensation increase for all plans and the medical cost trend rate for the applicable U.S. plans are based on plan experience.

Management establishes the assumptions concerning discount rates and actuarial assumptions based on current market conditions, including asset returns and other factors applicable under the circumstances. Changes in pension and other post-employment benefits, and associated expenses, may occur in the future due to changes in these assumptions. The impact that a .25% decrease in the discount rate or a 1% change in the medical cost trend rate would have on the Company’s pension and other post-employment benefit expense, as applicable, is discussed in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

The ongoing assessment of the valuation of inventory, given the large number of natural ingredients employed, the quality of which may be diminished over time.    The Company maintains between 40% and 55% of its inventory as raw materials, providing the greatest degree of flexibility in manufacture and use. Materials are evaluated based on shelf life, known uses and anticipated demand based on forecasted customer order activity and changes in product/sales mix. Management policy provides for an ongoing assessment of inventory with adjustments recorded when an item is deemed to be slow moving or obsolete.

Management believes that it has considered relevant circumstances that the Company may be currently subject to, and the financial statements accurately reflect management’s best estimate of the results of operations, financial condition and cash flows of the Company for the years presented. Management has discussed the decision process and selection of these critical accounting policies with the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.

New Accounting Standards

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (‘‘SFAS’’) No. 123(R) Share-Based Payment (‘‘FAS 123R’’) was issued in December 2004. FAS 123R is effective for the first reporting period beginning after December 15, 2005. FAS 123R supersedes Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees (‘‘APB 25’’) and establishes standards for the accounting for transactions in which an entity exchanges its equity instruments for goods or services. Under FAS 123R, the Company must determine the fair value model to be used for valuing share-based payments, the amortization method for compensation cost and the transition method to be used at date of adoption. The Company will adopt the new requirements using the modified prospective transition method in the first quarter which ends March 31, 2006. Adoption of the standard is currently expected to reduce 2006 annual earnings by $2.0- $3.0 million based on unvested options currently outstanding. This impact does not contemplate awards to be issued, cancelled or forfeited in 2006 or the potential tax impact related to the initial adoption of this standard.

SFAS No. 151, Inventory Costs, an amendment of ARB No. 43, Chapter 4 ("FAS 151"), was issued in November 2004. FAS 151 clarifies the accounting for abnormal amounts of idle facility expense, freight, handling costs and wasted materials. Additionally, FAS 151 requires that allocation of fixed production overheads to the costs of conversion be based on normal capacity of production facilities. This statement is effective January 1, 2006 and the Company believes its adoption will not have a material impact on reported results.

In March 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (‘‘FASB’’) issued FASB Interpretation No. 47, Accounting for Conditional Asset Retirement Obligations, which clarifies that a conditional asset retirement obligation, as used in SFAS No. 143, Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations, refers to a legal obligation to perform an asset retirement activity in which the timing and/or method of settlement are conditional on a future event that may or may not be within the control of the Company. This Statement was effective for 2005 and did not have a material impact on reported results.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The discussion of the Company's historical results include and, where indicated, exclude the impact of sales and operating results attributable to certain non-core businesses disposed of in 2004, the impact of certain restructuring and other charges recorded in 2004, the impact of the Company repatriatization of certain dividends from foreign subsidiaries under the AJCA, as well as the effects of exchange rate fluctuations. Such information is supplemental to information presented in accordance with GAAP and is not intended to represent a presentation in accordance with GAAP. In discussing its historical and expected future results and financial condition, the Company believes it is meaningful for investors to be made aware of and to be assisted in a better understanding of, on a period-to-period comparative basis, the relative impact of restructuring and other charges, the impact of sales and operating results attributable to certain non-core businesses disposed of, the impact of such restructuring charges and repatriatization of dividends, as well as the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on operating results and financial condition. The Company believes such additional non-GAAP information provides investors with an overall perspective of the period-to-period performance of the Company’s core business. In addition, management internally reviews each of these non-GAAP measures to evaluate performance on a comparative period-to-period basis in terms of absolute performance, trends and expected future performance with respect to its core continuing business.

Cautionary Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

Statements in this Annual Report, which are not historical facts or information, are ‘‘forward-looking statements’’ within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements which may be identified by such words as ‘‘expect,’’ ‘‘believe,’’ ‘‘anticipate,’’ ‘‘outlook,’’ ‘‘may,’’ and similar forward-looking terminology, involve significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results of the Company may be materially different from any future results or conditions expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from management’s expectations. Such factors include, among others, the following: general economic and business conditions in the Company's markets, including economic, population health and political uncertainties; weather; geopolitical and region specific uncertainties; interest rates; the price and availability of raw materials; the Company's ability to implement its business strategy, including the achievement of anticipated cost savings, profitability and growth targets; the impact of currency fluctuation or devaluation in the Company's principal foreign markets and the success of the Company's hedging and risk management strategies; the impact of possible pension funding obligations and increased pension expense on the Company's cash flow and results of operations; and the effect of legal and regulatory proceedings, as well as restrictions imposed on the Company, its operations or its representatives by foreign governments; and the fact that the outcome of litigation is highly uncertain and unpredictable and there can be no assurance that the triers of fact or law, at either the trial level or at any appellate level, will accept the factual assertions, factual defenses or legal positions of the Company or its factual or expert witnesses in any such litigation or other proceedings. The Company intends its forward-looking statements to speak only as of the time of this report and does not undertake to update or revise any such statements as more information becomes available or to reflect changes in expectations, assumptions or results.

ITEM 7A.    QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.

The Company enters into foreign currency forward contracts with the objective of reducing exposure to cash flow volatility associated with foreign currency receivables and payables, and with anticipated purchases of certain raw materials used in operations. These contracts, the counterparties to which are major international financial institutions, generally involve the exchange of one currency for a second currency at a future date, and have maturities not exceeding six months.

The Company also uses derivative financial instruments to hedge foreign currency exposures resulting from forecasted purchase commitments. The Company enters into these hedge contracts generally for periods ranging from one to three months. The gain or loss on the hedging instrument is

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recorded in earnings at the same time as the transaction being hedged is recorded in earnings. The associated asset or liability related to the open hedge instrument is recorded in Current Assets or Current Liabilities, as applicable.

The Company has executed a 10-year Yen - U.S. dollar currency swap related to the monthly sale and purchase of products between the U.S. and Japan. The annual notional value of this swap is approximately $5.0 million. Gains and losses related to this swap are recorded currently, and the mark-to-market adjustment related to the value of the swap is reflected as a component of Accumulated other comprehensive income.

In 2002, the Company entered into certain interest rate swap agreements effectively converting the fixed rate on its long-term Japanese Yen borrowings to a variable short-term rate based on the Japanese Yen LIBOR rate plus an interest markup. These swaps are designated as qualified fair value hedges. During 2003 and 2005, the Company amended the swaps and the counterparty paid the Company $3.0 million and $0.8 million, respectively, including accrued interest of $0.5 million and $0.1 million, respectively. In both cases, these net gains have been deferred, are classified as a separate component of debt and are being amortized over the remaining term of the debt. To the extent the Company has not received cash or otherwise amended or settled any swap agreements, any applicable mark-to-market adjustment relating to that swap is included as a separate component of debt. The Company had no ineffective interest rate swaps at December 31, 2005.

The Company uses foreign currency-rate and interest rate-sensitive instruments to hedge a certain portion of its existing and forecasted transactions. The Company expects that any change in value for the hedging instrument would be offset by a change in value related to the underlying transaction.

The Company’s hedges of its foreign currency exposure are not designed to and therefore cannot entirely eliminate the effect of changes in foreign exchange rates on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows. The Company’s foreign currency swaps were analyzed at year-end to determine their sensitivity to exchange rate changes. Based on the outstanding balance of these financial instruments at December 31, 2005, a hypothetical 10% change (either an increase or a decrease) in rates prevailing at that date, sustained for up to a year, would not represent a material potential change in fair value, earnings or cash flows.

At December 31, 2005, the Company had $950.7 million of debt outstanding, including $7.9 million in deferred gains and mark-to-market adjustments on interest rate swap transactions. Debt, excluding the deferred swap gains, includes $499.2 million of 6.45% Notes maturing in May 2006, $314.6 million in bank borrowings and overdrafts and $129.0 million in long-term Japanese Yen denominated debt. The Company’s borrowings and interest rate swaps were analyzed at year-end to determine their sensitivity to interest rate changes. Based on the outstanding balance of all these financial instruments at December 31, 2005, a hypothetical 10% change (either an increase or a decrease) in interest rates prevailing at that date, sustained for one year, would not represent a material potential change in fair value, earnings or cash flows.

ITEM 8.    FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.

See index to Consolidated Financial Statements on page 37. See Item 6 for supplemental quarterly data on page 15.

ITEM 9.  CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.

None.

ITEM 9A.    CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures and Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting.

The Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, with the assistance of other members of the Company's management, have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's

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disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Based on such evaluation, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that the Company's disclosure controls and procedures are effective.

The Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that there have not been any changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the Company’s fourth quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

Management’s Report of Management is contained in Part IV of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

    Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting.

Management of the Company is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Management assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (‘‘COSO’’) in Internal Control – Integrated Framework.

Based on this assessment, management determined that, as of December 31, 2005, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, has audited management’s assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005 as stated in their report which is included herein.

The Company's Chief Executive Officer certification was timely filed with the NYSE as required by NYSE Rule 303A(12). The Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have each filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission the required certifications regarding the quality of the Company's public disclosures.

ITEM 9B.    OTHER INFORMATION.

None.

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PART III

ITEM 10.    DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT.

The information relating to directors and nominees of the Company is set forth under the caption ‘‘Election of Directors’’ in the IFF 2006 Proxy Statement and is incorporated by reference herein. The information under the caption ‘‘Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance’’ that appears in the IFF 2006 Proxy Statement is also incorporated by reference herein. See Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K for information relating to the Company's Executive Officers.

The Company has adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the ‘‘Code of Ethics’’) that applies to the Company's chief executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, and to all other Company directors, officers and employees. The Code of Ethics is available on the Company's website www.iff.com. A waiver from any provision of the Code of Ethics in favor of a director or Executive Officer may only be granted by the Board and any such waiver will be publicly disclosed. The Company will disclose substantive amendments to, and any waivers from, the Code of Ethics provided to the Company's chief executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer, as well as any other executive officer or director, on the Company's Internet website: www.iff.com.

The information regarding the Company's Audit Committee and its designated audit committee financial expert is set forth under the caption ‘‘Board and Committee Meetings’’ in the IFF 2006 Proxy Statement and such information is incorporated by reference herein.

ITEM 11.    EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.

The information relating to executive compensation is set forth under the captions ‘‘Summary Compensation Table’’, ‘‘Option/SAR Grants in 2005’’, ‘‘Aggregated Option Exercises in 2005 and Option/SAR Values at December 31, 2005’’, ‘‘Directors' Compensation’’, ‘‘Employment Contracts and Termination of Employment and Change-in-Control Arrangements’’, ‘‘Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation’’ and ‘‘Related Party Matters’’, ‘‘Executive Separation Policy’’ and ‘‘Pension Plans’’ in the IFF 2006 Proxy Statement and such information is incorporated by reference herein.

ITEM 12.  SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT.

The information relating to security ownership of management and certain beneficial owners is set forth under the caption ‘‘Security Ownership of Management, Directors and Certain Other Persons’’ in the IFF 2006 Proxy Statement and such information is incorporated by reference herein. The information relating to the Company's equity plans is set forth under the caption ‘‘Equity Compensation Plans’’ in the IFF 2006 Proxy Statement and such information is incorporated by reference herein.

ITEM 13.    CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS.

The information regarding certain relationships and related party transactions is set forth under the caption ‘‘Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation’’ and ‘‘Related Party Matters’’ in the IFF’s 2006 Proxy Statement and such information is incorporated by reference herein.

ITEM 14.  INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FEES AND SERVICES.

The information regarding the independent registered public accounting firm (‘‘independent accountant’’) fees and services and the Company's pre-approval policies and procedures for audit and non-audit services provided by the Company's independent accountant are set forth under the captions ‘‘Principal Accountant Fees and Services’’ and ‘‘Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures’’ in the IFF 2006 Proxy Statement and such information is incorporated by reference herein.

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PART IV

ITEM 15.    EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.

(a)(1) FINANCIAL STATEMENTS:    The following consolidated financial statements, related notes, management's report and independent registered public accounting firm’s report are included in this report on Form 10-K:


Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm   38-39  
Consolidated Statement of Income for the three years ended December 31, 2005   40  
Consolidated Balance Sheet – December 31, 2005 and 2004   41  
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the three years ended December 31, 2005   42  
Consolidated Statement of Shareholders' Equity for the three years ended
December 31, 2005
  43  
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements   44-64  
(a)(2) FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES   65  

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.:

We have completed integrated audits of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.’s 2005 and 2004 consolidated financial statements and of its internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005 and an audit of its 2003 consolidated financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Our opinions, based on our audits, are presented below.

Consolidated financial statements

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements listed in the index appearing under item 15(a)(1) present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and its subsidiaries at December 31, 2005 and 2004, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit of financial statements includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Internal control over financial reporting

Also, in our opinion, management’s assessment, included in Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A, that the Company maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005 based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (‘‘COSO’’), is fairly stated, in all material respects, based on those criteria. Furthermore, in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the COSO. The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. Our responsibility is to express opinions on management’s assessment and on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We conducted our audit of internal control over financial reporting in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. An audit of internal control over financial reporting includes obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, evaluating management’s assessment, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control, and performing such other procedures as we consider necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinions.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide

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reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.


/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
New York, New York
March 13, 2006

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME


  Year Ended December 31,
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS) 2005 2004 2003
Net sales $ 1,993,393   $ 2,033,653   $ 1,901,520  
Cost of goods sold   1,168,992     1,160,235     1,092,456  
Research and development expenses   179,812     175,173     159,286  
Selling and administrative expenses   339,323     341,306     308,951  
Amortization of intangibles   15,071     14,830     12,632  
Restructuring and other charges, net   23,319     31,830     42,421  
Interest expense   23,956     24,002     28,477  
Other (income) expense, net   (3,268   5,275     5,437  
    1,747,205     1,752,651     1,649,660  
Income before taxes on income   246,188     281,002     251,860  
Taxes on income   53,122     84,931     79,263  
Net income $ 193,066   $ 196,071   $ 172,597  

  2005 2004 2003
Net income per share – basic $ 2.06   $ 2.08   $ 1.84  
Net income per share – diluted $ 2.04   $ 2.05   $ 1.83  

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET


(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) December 31,
ASSETS 2005 2004
Current Assets:            
Cash and cash equivalents $ 272,545   $ 32,596  
Short-term investments   352     399  
Receivables:            
Trade   319,644     353,442  
Allowance for doubtful accounts   (14,821   (17,663
Other   63,696     22,582  
Inventories   430,794     457,204  
Deferred income taxes   75,366     79,267  
Prepaid expenses   43,698     33,543  
Total Current Assets   1,191,274     961,370  
Property, Plant and Equipment, net   499,145     501,334  
Goodwill   665,582     665,582  
Other Intangible Assets, net   107,069     124,094  
Other Assets   175,126     110,914  
Total Assets $ 2,638,196   $ 2,363,294  

  December 31,
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY 2005 2004
Current Liabilities:            
Bank borrowings, overdrafts and current portion of long-term debt $ 819,392   $ 15,957  
Accounts payable   98,588     103,978  
Accrued payrolls and bonuses   23,260     53,452  
Dividends payable   17,189     16,571  
Income taxes   41,089     30,339  
Restructuring and other charges   30,099     38,312  
Other current liabilities   173,079     140,913  
Total Current Liabilities   1,202,696     399,522  
Other Liabilities:            
Long-term debt   131,281     668,969  
Deferred gains   67,713     70,428  
Retirement liabilities   207,452     226,695  
Other liabilities   113,707     87,193  
Total Other Liabilities   520,153     1,053,285  
Commitments and Contingencies (Note 17)            
Shareholders' Equity:            
Common stock 12½¢ par value; authorized 500,000,000 shares;            
issued 115,761,840 shares   14,470     14,470  
Capital in excess of par value   71,894     79,498  
Restricted stock       (870
Retained earnings   1,752,055     1,627,386  
Accumulated other comprehensive income:            
Cumulative translation adjustment   (47,369   8,227  
Accumulated losses on derivatives qualifying as hedges (net of tax)   (2,606   (5,694
Minimum pension liability adjustment (net of tax)   (100,380   (110,705
    1,688,064     1,612,312  
Treasury stock, at cost – 23,047,349 shares in 2005 and 21,088,993
shares in 2004
  (772,717   (701,825
Total Shareholders' Equity   915,347     910,487  
Total Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity $ 2,638,196   $ 2,363,294  

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS


  Year Ended December 31,
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2003
Cash flows from operating activities:                  
Net income $ 193,066   $ 196,071   $ 172,597  
Adjustments to reconcile to net cash provided by operations:                  
Depreciation and amortization   91,928     90,996     86,721  
Deferred income taxes   (32,882   (6,464   (11,565
Gain on disposal of assets   (2,108   (19,774   (1,614
Changes in assets and liabilities:                  
Current receivables   (1,897   (2,203   35,956  
Inventories   (117   363     7,690  
Current payables   (6,369   31,259     (32,252
Changes in other assets, net   (46,225   18,232     (1,263
Changes in other liabilities, net   (18,236   (12,633   13,326  
Net cash provided by operations   177,160     295,847     269,596  
Cash flows from investing activities:                  
Net change in short-term investments   35     132     (128
Acquisitions and purchase of minority interest       —         —     (6,400
Additions to property, plant and equipment   (93,433   (70,607   (65,955
Proceeds from disposal of assets   2,787     38,997     97,675  
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities   (90,611   (31,478   25,192  
Cash flows from financing activities:                  
Cash dividends paid to shareholders   (67,779   (63,214   (58,174
Net change in bank borrowings and overdrafts   312,094     (28,447   12,551  
Net change in commercial paper outstanding       —     (162,933   124,954  
Proceeds from long-term debt       —         —     35,984  
Repayments of long-term debt   (11,653   (759   (386,399
Proceeds from issuance of stock under stock plans   23,015     76,452     26,278  
Purchase of treasury stock   (98,319   (66,469   (55,447
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities   157,358     (245,370   (300,253
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents   (3,958   1,516     2,688  
Net change in cash and cash equivalents   239,949     20,515     (2,777
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year   32,596     12,081     14,858  
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year $ 272,545   $ 32,596   $ 12,081  
Non-Cash investing activity:                  
Asset write-down charges associated with the Company's                  
restructuring activities $     —   $ 6,814   $ 2,308  

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY


                 
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) Common
stock
Capital in
excess of
par value
Restricted
stock
Retained
earnings
Accumulated
other
compreh-
ensive
income
Treasury  
Shares
stock
Cost
Note
receivable
from
officer
Total
Compreh-
ensive
income
Balance at January 1, 2003 $ 14,470   $ 109,735   $ (5,723 $ 1,382,539   $ (212,480   (21,507,668 $ (712,876 $ (987      
Net Income                     172,597                           $ 172,597  
Cumulative translation adjustment                           92,987                       92,987  
Accumulated gains on derivatives qualifying as hedges; net of tax: ($368)                           (4,411                     (4,411
Minimum pension liability adjustment; net of tax: $3,753                           (7,777                     (7,777
Total comprehensive income                                                 $ 253,396  
Cash dividends declared                     (59,032                              
Stock options         (14,597                     1,226,836     40,875              
Reacquired shares                                 (1,751,300   (55,447            
Repayment of loan                                             987        
Amortization               1,771                                      
Balance at Dec. 31, 2003   14,470     95,138     (3,952   1,496,104     (131,681   (22,032,132   (727,448       —        
Net Income                     196,071                           $ 196,071  
Cumulative translation adjustment                           53,415                       53,415  
Accumulated losses on derivatives qualifying as hedges; net of tax: $89                           (2,016                     (2,016
Minimum pension liability adjustment; net of tax: $11,297                           (27,890                     (27,890
Total comprehensive income                                                 $ 219,580  
Cash dividends declared                     (64,789                              
Stock options         (15,640                     2,745,039     92,092              
Reacquired shares                                 (1,801,900   (66,469            
Restricted stock award               387                                      
Amortization               2,695                                      
Balance at Dec. 31, 2004   14,470     79,498     (870   1,627,386     (108,172   (21,088,993   (701,825       —        
Net Income                     193,066                           $ 193,066  
Cumulative translation adjustment                           (55,596                     (55,596
Accumulated losses on derivatives qualifying as hedges; net of tax: $674                           3,088                       3,088  
Minimum pension liability adjustment; net of tax: ($2,262)                           10,325                       10,325  
Total comprehensive income                                                 $ 150,883  
Cash dividends declared                     (68,397                              
Stock options         (7,604                     828,644     34,094              
Reacquired shares                                 (2,587,000   (98,319            
Restricted stock award                                 (200,000   (6,667            
Amortization               870                                      
Balance at Dec. 31, 2005 $ 14,470   $ 71,894   $     —   $ 1,752,055   $ (150,355   (23,047,349 $ (772,717 $     —        

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTE 1.    NATURE OF OPERATIONS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Use of Estimates    Preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts and accompanying disclosures. These estimates are based on management's best knowledge of current events and actions the Company may undertake in the future. Actual results may ultimately differ from estimates.

Nature of Operations    The Company is a leading creator and manufacturer of flavor and fragrance compounds used to impart or improve flavor or fragrance in a wide variety of consumer products. The Company's products are sold principally to manufacturers of perfumes and cosmetics, hair and other personal care products, soaps and detergents, cleaning products, dairy, meat and other processed foods, beverages, snacks and savory foods, confectionery, sweet and baked goods, and pharmaceutical and oral care products.

Principles of Consolidation    The Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company and all subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. To the extent a subsidiary is not wholly-owned, any related minority interest is included in Other liabilities and applicable (income) expense attributable to the minority interest is included in Other (income) expense, net.

Revenue Recognition    The Company recognizes revenue when the earnings process is complete. This generally occurs when (i) products are shipped to the customer in accordance with the terms of sale, (ii) title and risk of loss have been transferred and (iii) collectibility is reasonably assured. Accruals are made for sales returns and other allowances based on the Company’s historical experience.

Foreign Currency Translation    The assets and liabilities of non-U.S. subsidiaries are translated into U.S. dollars at year-end exchange rates. Income and expense items are translated at average exchange rates during the year. Cumulative translation adjustments are shown as a separate component of Shareholders' Equity.

Research and Development    All research and development costs are expensed as incurred.

Inventories    Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (on an average basis) or market.

Cash Equivalents    Cash equivalents include highly liquid investments with maturities of three months or less at date of purchase.

Property, Plant and Equipment    Property, plant and equipment are recorded at cost. Depreciation is calculated on a straight-line basis, principally over the following estimated useful lives: buildings and improvements, 10 to 40 years; machinery and equipment, 3 to 10 years; information technology hardware and software, 3 to 7 years; and leasehold improvements which are included in buildings and improvements, the estimated life of the improvements or the remaining term of the lease, whichever is shorter.

The Company reviews its long-lived assets for impairment when events or changes in business conditions indicate that their full carrying value may not be recovered. An estimate of undiscounted future cash flows produced by an asset or group of assets is compared to the carrying value to determine whether impairment exists. If assets are determined to be impaired, the loss is measured based on an estimate of fair value using various valuation techniques, including a discounted estimate of future cash flows.

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Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets    Identifiable intangible assets include patents, trademarks and other intellectual property valued at acquisition primarily through independent appraisals, and are amortized on a straight-line basis over periods ranging from 7 to 20 years. For purposes of assessing impairment, the fair values for goodwill and indefinite-lived intangibles are determined based on discounted cash flows, market multiples or appraised values, as appropriate. The Company completed its annual goodwill impairment assessment and no adjustments to goodwill were necessary.

Income Taxes    Deferred income taxes reflect the impact of temporary differences between the amount of assets and liabilities recognized for financial reporting purposes and such amounts recognized for tax purposes, based on tax laws as currently enacted. Additional taxes which would result from distributions by subsidiary companies to the parent are provided to the extent anticipated. No provision is made for additional taxes on undistributed earnings of subsidiary companies that are intended to be indefinitely invested in such subsidiaries. No income tax benefit is attributed to the currency translation component of Accumulated other comprehensive income.

Retirement Benefits    Current service costs of retirement plans and postretirement health care and life insurance benefits are accrued currently. Prior service costs resulting from plan improvements are amortized over periods ranging from 10 to 20 years.

Financial Instruments    The Company enters into derivative instruments with terms that match the underlying exposure being hedged. The Company's derivative instruments that qualify for hedge accounting treatment are designated as cash flow hedges and are considered highly effective. The net gain or loss from hedge ineffectiveness is not material. The changes in value of the derivative are recorded in Accumulated other comprehensive income and are recognized in earnings when the offsetting effect of the hedged item is recognized in earnings. The Company also uses derivative financial instruments to manage interest and foreign currency exposures. The gain or loss on the hedging instrument is recorded in earnings at the same time as the transaction being hedged is recorded in earnings. The associated asset or liability related to the open hedge instrument is recorded in Current Assets or Current Liabilities, as applicable.

Risks and Uncertainties    The diversity of the Company's products, customers and geographic operations significantly reduces the risk that a severe impact will occur in the near term as a result of changes in its customer base, competition, sources of supply or markets.

Software Costs    The Company capitalizes direct internal and external development costs associated with internal-use software. Neither preliminary evaluation costs nor costs associated with the software after implementation are capitalized.

Shipping and Handling Costs    Net sales include shipping and handling charges billed to customers. Cost of goods sold includes all costs incurred in connection with shipping and handling.

Net Income Per Share    Net income per share is based on the weighted average number of shares outstanding. A reconciliation of shares used in the computations of basic and diluted net income per share is as follows:


  Number of Shares
(SHARES IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2003
Basic   93,584     94,143     93,718  
Dilution under stock plans   1,242     1,275     701  
Diluted   94,826     95,418     94,419  

Net income used in the computation of net income per share is unaffected by the assumed issuance of stock under the Company's stock plans.

Options to purchase 1,018,892, 761,750, and 4,440,455 shares were outstanding at December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively, but not included in the computation of diluted net income per share because the exercise prices were greater than the average market price of the common shares in the respective years.

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Stock Plans    The Company has stock-based compensation plans which are described more fully in Note 12. The Company has applied the recognition and measurement principles of APB 25 and related Interpretations in accounting for these plans. No compensation expense for employee stock options is reflected in net income, as all options granted under such plans had an exercise price not less than the market value of the common stock on the date of the grant. Net income, as reported, includes pre-tax compensation expense related to restricted stock and restricted stock units (‘‘RSU’s’’) of $7.3 million, $8.1 million, and $1.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

The following table illustrates the effect on net income and net income per share if the Company had applied the fair value recognition provisions of FAS No. 123, ‘‘Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation,’’ for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003.


(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS,      
EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS) 2005 2004 2003
Net income, as reported $ 193,066   $ 196,071   $ 172,597  
Deduct:                  
Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value method for all stock option awards, net of related tax effects   6,698     13,954     15,404  
Pro-forma net income $ 186,368   $ 182,117   $ 157,193  
Net income per share:                  
Basic – as reported $ 2.06   $ 2.08   $ 1.84  
Basic – pro-forma $ 1.99   $ 1.93   $ 1.68  
Diluted – as reported $ 2.04   $ 2.05   $ 1.83  
Diluted – pro-forma $ 1.97   $ 1.91   $ 1.66  

These pro-forma amounts may not be representative of future results because the estimated fair value of stock options is amortized to expense over the vesting period, and additional options may be granted in future years.

The Company granted annual RSU awards in 2004 and 2005 as elements of its equity compensation plans for all eligible U.S. - based employees and a majority of eligible overseas employees. Vesting of the RSU’s for the Company’s senior management is both performance and time based, and for the remainder of the eligible employees, vesting is time based; vesting is generally three years from date of grant.

New Accounting Standards    Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (‘‘SFAS’’) No. 123(R) Share-Based Payment (‘‘FAS 123R’’) was issued in December 2004. FAS 123R is effective for the first reporting period beginning after December 15, 2005. FAS 123R supersedes Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees (‘‘APB 25’’) and establishes standards for the accounting for transactions in which an entity exchanges its equity instruments for goods or services. Under FAS 123R, the Company must determine the fair value model to be used for valuing share-based payments, the amortization method for compensation cost and the transition method to be used at date of adoption. The Company will adopt the new requirements using the modified prospective transition method in the first quarter which ends March 31, 2006.

SFAS No. 151, Inventory Costs, an amendment of ARB No. 43, Chapter 4 ("FAS 151"), was issued in November 2004. FAS 151 clarifies the accounting for abnormal amounts of idle facility expense, freight, handling costs and wasted materials. Additionally, FAS 151 Statement requires that allocation of fixed production overheads to the costs of conversion be based on normal capacity of production facilities. This statement is effective January 1, 2006 and the Company believes its adoption will not have a material impact on reported results.

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In March 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (‘‘FASB’’) issued FASB Interpretation No. 47, Accounting for Conditional Asset Retirement Obligations, which clarifies that a conditional asset retirement obligation, as used in SFAS No. 143, Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations, refers to a legal obligation to perform an asset retirement activity in which the timing and/or method of settlement are conditional on a future event that may or may not be within the control of the Company. This Statement was effective for 2005 and did not have a material impact on reported results.

Reclassifications    Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior years' financial statements to conform to 2005 classifications.

NOTE 2.    RESTRUCTURING AND OTHER CHARGES

In 2005, the Company undertook to eliminate approximately 300 positions in manufacturing, selling, research and administration functions, principally in its European and North American operating regions. The majority of affected positions involve employee separation while the balance relates to open positions that will not be filled. As a result of these actions, the Company recognized pre-tax charges of $23.3 million in 2005 related primarily to employee separation expenses.

In 2004, the Company disposed of its European fruit preparations business; proceeds from the sale were $40.0 million, including assumption of certain liabilities. In addition, the Company closed its Canadian manufacturing facility and began the process of closing its manufacturing facility in Dijon, France. As a result, the Company eliminated 302 positions, and recognized pre-tax charges of $31.8 million, of which $25.8 million related to employee terminations and $6.0 million to location closures and asset write-downs, and other related reorganization actions; the asset-related charges were net of gains of $16.3 million related to the sale of the fruit business and Canadian facility.

In 2003, the Company recorded pre-tax charges of $42.4 million, of which $38.0 million related to the elimination of 321 employee positions and $4.4 million related to location closures and asset write-downs. The $4.4 million asset-related charges primarily relate to updates on costs for previously commenced actions.

With respect to all restructuring and other charges:

•  Separation costs for the employees relate primarily to severance, outplacement and other benefit costs;
•  Asset write-down charges relate to establishment of the new carrying value for assets held for sale or disposal; and
•  Other costs include lease termination costs and other reorganization expenses incurred to affect either the employee separation or location closure.

Movements in related accruals were:


(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) Employee-
Related
Asset-Related
and Other
Total
Balance January 1, 2003 $ 3,429   $ 421   $ 3,850  
Additional charges   37,989     4,432     42,421  
Cash and other costs   (21,809   (3,334   (25,143
Balance December 31, 2003   19,609     1,519     21,128  
Additional charges   25,828     22,331     48,159  
Cash and other costs   (17,219   (8,942   (26,161
Balance December 31, 2004   28,218     14,908     43,126  
Additional charges   21,979     1,340     23,319  
Cash and other costs   (20,681   (11,315   (31,996
Balance December 31, 2005 $ 29,516   $ 4,933   $ 34,449  

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The 2004 asset-related accruals exclude gains of $16.3 million arising on the sale of the fruit business and Canadian facility; such gains were considered in determining Restructuring and other charges of $31.8 million reported in 2004.

The employee-related liabilities are expected to be utilized by 2008 as obligations are satisfied; asset-related charges will be utilized in 2007 on final decommissioning and disposal of affected equipment.

NOTE 3.    INVENTORIES


  December 31,
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004
Raw materials $ 197,268   $ 197,782  
Work in process   11,866     12,759  
Finished goods   221,660     246,663  
Total $ 430,794   $ 457,204  

NOTE 4.    PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, NET


  Cost
Asset Type December 31,
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004
Land $     30,220   $     40,914  
Buildings and improvements   226,202     214,328  
Machinery and equipment   494,506     523,072  
Information technology   195,367     185,026  
Construction in progress   79,412     68,138  
Total $ 1,025,707   $ 1,031,478  

  Accumulated Depreciation
Asset Type December 31,
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004
Buildings and improvements $     97,237   $     99,103  
Machinery and equipment   304,981     309,449  
Information technology   124,344     121,592  
Total $ 526,562   $ 530,144  

  Net
Asset Type December 31,
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004
Land $     30,220   $     40,914  
Buildings and improvements   128,965     115,225  
Machinery and equipment   189,525     213,623  
Information technology   71,023     63,434  
Construction in progress   79,412     68,138  
Total $ 499,145   $ 501,334  

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NOTE 5.    GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS, NET

Goodwill by operating segment for 2005 and 2004 is as follows:


(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) Amount
North America $     218,575  
Europe   258,607  
India   29,209  
Latin America   49,046  
Asia Pacific   110,145  
Total $ 665,582  

Trademark and other intangible assets consist of the following amounts:


  December 31,
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004
Gross carrying value $     177,498   $     179,452  
Accumulated amortization   70,429     55,358  
Total $ 107,069   $ 124,094  

Amortization expense for the year ended December 31, 2005 was $15.1 million; estimated annual amortization is $14.8 million in 2006, $13.5 million in 2007 and $6.8 million in 2008 thru 2010. In 2005, 2004 and 2003, the Company performed its impairment assessments and concluded there was no impairment.

NOTE 6.    OTHER ASSETS

Other Assets consist of the following amounts:


  December 31,
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004
Pension payments – long term $     65,190   $     55,042  
Insurance settlement receivables   30,808     11,047  
Deferred tax asset - noncurrent   53,221     14,146  
Other   25,907     30,679  
Total $ 175,126   $ 110,914  

NOTE 7.    OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES

Other current liabilities consist of the following amounts:


  December 31,
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004
Commissions and professional fees payable $     11,624   $     10,877  
Rebates and incentives   11,022     12,053  
Current pension and other retiree accruals   18,739     13,072  
Insurance settlement accruals   42,285     5,071  
Other   89,409     99,840  
Total $ 173,079   $ 140,913  

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NOTE 8.    SALE AND LEASEBACK TRANSACTIONS

In connection with the disposition of certain real estate assets, the Company entered into long-term operating leases with respect to the facilities disposed of. The leases are classified as operating leases in accordance with SFAS No. 13, ‘‘Accounting for Leases,’’ and the gains realized on the sale have been deferred and are being credited to income over the initial lease term. The Company had deferred gains on disposition of real estate totaling $70.7 million and $73.4 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively, of which $67.7 million and $70.4 million, respectively, are reflected in the accompanying balance sheet under the caption Deferred gains, with the remainder included as a component of Other current liabilities.

NOTE 9.    BORROWINGS

Debt consists of the following at December 31:


(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) Rate Maturities 2005 2004
Bank borrowings and overdrafts             $ 314,622   $ 3,651  
Current portion of long-term debt               499,208     12,306  
Current portion of deferred realized gains on
interest rate swaps
              5,562      
Total current debt               819,392     15,957  
U.S. dollars   6.45   2006         498,938  
Japanese Yen notes   2.45   2008-11     128,945     146,126  
Other         2011     40     102  
Deferred realized gains on interest rate swaps               2,296     24,104  
FAS 133 adjustment                   (301
Total long-term debt               131,281     668,969  
Total debt             $ 950,673   $ 684,926  

Commercial paper issued by the Company generally has terms of 30 days or less; there were no outstanding commercial paper borrowings at December 31, 2005 or 2004.

In 2001, the Company issued $700.0 million of 6.45% Notes; the Notes mature May 15, 2006. During 2003, the Company repurchased $200.7 million of these Notes in a series of open-market transactions. At December 31, 2005, these Notes represent the current portion of long-term debt.

In 2005, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries entered into a revolving credit agreement (the ‘‘Agreement’’ or the ‘‘Facility’’) with certain banks which replaced existing credit facilities. The Agreement provides for a five-year US $350,000,000 (‘‘Tranche A’’) and Euro 400,000,000 (‘‘Tranche B’’) multi-currency revolving credit facility. Tranche A is available for commercial paper backstop and general corporate purposes; Tranche B is available to European subsidiaries for general corporate purposes. Borrowings under the Facility bear interest at an annual rate of LIBOR (London Inter Bank Offer Rate) (or in relation to any Euro-denominated loans, EURIBOR, European Inter Bank Offer Rate) plus a margin, currently 20 basis points, linked to the credit rating of the Company. The Company pays a commitment fee on the aggregate unused commitments and a utilization fee based on amounts outstanding under the Facility; such fees are not material. The Company may request an extension of the Facility for up to two years beyond the original term of the Agreement. The Facility contains various affirmative and negative covenants customary in a facility of this type, including a covenant requiring the Company to maintain, at the end of each fiscal quarter, a ratio of net debt for borrowed money to EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) in respect of the previous 12-month period of not more than 3.25 to 1. The Company has complied with this covenant at all times.

Short-term bank loans primarily in the form of overdrafts, in addition to the above multi-currency facility, were outstanding in several foreign countries and averaged $33.1 million in 2005, compared with $22.2 million in 2004. The highest levels were $314.7 million in 2005, $33.8 million in 2004, and

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$37.4 million in 2003, respectively. The 2005 weighted average interest rate of these foreign bank loans, based on balances outstanding at the end of each month, was 3.4% and the average rate on loans outstanding at December 31, 2005 was 2.8%. These rates compare with 3.2% and 4.7%, respectively, in 2004 and 4.1% and 3.7%, respectively, in 2003.

Annual maturities on long-term debt outstanding at December 31, 2005 are: 2006, $499.2 million; 2007, $0; 2008, $113.4 million; 2009, $0, and 2010 and thereafter, $15.6 million. The estimated fair value of the long-term debt at December 31, 2005 and 2004, based on borrowing rates currently available to the Company with similar terms and maturities, approximated the recorded amount.

The Company has various interest rate swaps, the market value of which is included in the caption FAS 133 adjustment. Interest rate swaps that have been monetized and will be amortized over the life of the debt are reported as Deferred realized gains on interest rate swaps.

Cash payments for interest were $37.0 million in 2005, $36.7 million in 2004 and $44.6 million in 2003; such cash payments exclude the benefit of cash the Company received under its various interest rate swap agreements of $11.6 million in 2003; there were no new swap agreements in 2005 or 2004.

At December 31, 2005 and 2004, the Company and its subsidiaries had unused lines of credit approximating $641.0 million and $590.0 million, respectively, in addition to the Facility.

NOTE 10.    INCOME TAXES

The following tables show the components of consolidated income before taxes, and current and deferred income tax expense by taxing jurisdiction, both domestic and foreign:


(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2003
U.S. loss before taxes $ (52,471 $ (42,388 $ (53,200
Foreign income before taxes   298,659     323,390     305,060  
Total income before taxes $ 246,188   $ 281,002   $ 251,860  

(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2003
Current                  
Federal $ 5,642   $ 6,033   $ 4,762  
State and local   (1,612   (1,288   902  
Foreign   81,974     86,650     85,164  
    86,004     91,395     90,828  
Deferred                  
Federal   (25,618   (1,568   (18,497
State and local   778     293     (2,660
Foreign   (8,042   (5,189   9,592  
    (32,882   (6,464   (11,565
Total income taxes $ 53,122   $ 84,931   $ 79,263  

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At December 31, 2005 and 2004, gross deferred tax assets were $162.1 million and $165.6 million, respectively; gross deferred tax liabilities were $33.5 million and $72.2 million, respectively. No valuation allowance was required for deferred tax assets. At December 31, 2005 and 2004, non-current deferred tax assets of $53.2 million and $14.1 million, respectively, were included in Other Assets. The principal components of deferred tax assets (liabilities) were:


(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004
Employee and retiree benefits $ 79,700   $ 83,900  
Tax credit carryforwards   9,400     14,400  
Property, plant and equipment   18,600     9,100  
Trademarks and other   (28,100   (32,300
Foreign earnings       (25,300
Other, net   49,000     43,600  
  $ 128,600   $ 93,400  

Of the tax credit carryforwards, $1.0 million will expire in 2013; the remainder can be carried forward indefinitely.

Undistributed earnings of foreign subsidiaries for which no deferred taxes have been provided totaled $550.9 million and $647.1 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The portion of these foreign earnings which the Company intends to indefinitely reinvest in its foreign operations totaled $139.8 million and $228.1 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. No federal income or foreign withholding tax has been provided on these indefinitely reinvested foreign earnings. Any additional U.S. taxes payable on the remaining foreign earnings, if remitted, would be substantially offset by credits for foreign taxes already paid.

In 2005, the effective tax rate was significantly reduced as a result of a tax benefit associated with The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (‘‘AJCA’’). AJCA, enacted on October 22, 2004, provided for a special one-time tax deduction of 85% of dividends received on eligible repatriated foreign earnings; the deduction resulted in an approximate 5.25% federal tax rate on these earnings. Tax expense for 2005 reflects a benefit of $24.7 million relating to the Company's repatriation of $242.0 million of dividends from foreign subsidiaries under the provisions of AJCA. The benefit results from the reversal of prior accruals relating to the repatriation of foreign earnings, net of the applicable reduced U.S. tax cost of eligible repatriated foreign earnings, as provided for in AJCA

A reconciliation between the U.S. federal income tax rate and the effective tax rate is:


  2005 2004 2003
Statutory tax rate   35.0   35.0   35.0
Difference in effective tax rate on foreign earnings and remittances   (2.8   (2.6   (1.4
State and local taxes   (0.2   (0.2   (0.5
AJCA benefit   (10.0        
Other, net   (0.4   (2.0   (1.6
Effective tax rate   21.6   30.2   31.5

Income taxes paid were $66.7 million in 2005, $75.4 million in 2004 and $96.9 million in 2003.

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NOTE 11.    SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

On March 9, 2000, the Company adopted a shareholder protection rights agreement (the ‘‘Rights Agreement’’) and declared a dividend of one right on each share of common stock outstanding on March 24, 2000 or issued thereafter.

Under the Rights Agreement, as amended, until a person or group acquires 15% or more of the Company's common stock or commences a tender offer that would result in such person's or group's owning 15% or more, the rights are evidenced by the common stock certificates, automatically trade with the common stock and are not exercisable.

Thereafter, if the Company is involved in a merger or sells more than 50% of its assets or earning power, each right entitles its holder to purchase a certain number of shares for a specified exercise price. Also, under certain circumstances, the Company's Board of Directors has the option to redeem or exchange one share of common stock for each right. Finally, in the event a new Board of Directors is elected in a successful proxy contest, (i) the rights may not be redeemed and no business combination with the Company can be effected for 180 days thereafter unless certain procedures are followed to ensure (A) that steps are taken to maximize shareholder value, or (B) that any decision to redeem the rights, if challenged, would meet an ‘‘entire fairness’’ test; and (ii) the Rights Agreement may not be amended during such 180-day period. To establish ‘‘entire fairness’’ in connection with a redemption, the new Board must be able to demonstrate that all aspects of the redemption decision were fair, including the redemption procedure and the financial terms of the redemption. The Rights Agreement expires in March 2010.

The Board of Directors authorized share repurchase programs of $100.0 million in July 2004 and $200.0 million in May 2005. The Company completed the 2004 program during 2005. At December 31, 2005, $177.2 million remained under the 2005 plan. The repurchased shares may be used in connection with equity compensation programs and for other general corporate purposes.

Dividends paid per share were $0.72, $0.67 and $0.62 in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

The Accumulated other comprehensive income balance includes Cumulative translation adjustments of ($47.4) million and $8.2 million, Accumulated (losses) gains on derivatives qualifying as hedges of ($2.6) million and ($5.7) million, and Minimum pension liability of ($100.4) million and ($110.7) million, at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Amounts are shown net of tax, where appropriate.

NOTE 12.    STOCK PLANS

The Company has various equity plans under which the Company's officers, directors and key employees may be granted options to purchase the Company's common stock at 100% of the market price on the day the option is granted or may receive other forms of equity-based awards. Prior to 2004, stock option plans were the primary form of equity compensation. In 2004, the Company granted RSU’s as an element of its incentive compensation plans for all eligible U.S. - - based employees and a majority of eligible overseas employees. Vesting of the RSU’s for the Company’s senior management is performance and time based, and for the remainder of eligible employees, vesting is time based; the vesting period is generally three years from date of grant. Compensation expense is recognized over the vesting period.

Options granted prior to May 2001 generally become exercisable no earlier than two years after the date of grant and expire 10 years after the date of grant. Options granted after May 1, 2001 generally become exercisable no earlier than one year from the date of grant and expire 10 years after grant date, except for options granted to certain foreign employees, which may be exercised immediately.

During 2005, options were granted at exercise prices ranging from $39.00 to $42.12 per share. At December 31, 2005, the price range for shares under option was $17.94 to $49.88; options for 5,614,291 shares were exercisable at that date.

The Company maintained a Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan (‘‘GESPP’’). Eligible employees were allowed to purchase a limited number of shares of the Company's common stock at a

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discount of 15% of the market value on the grant date. The effective purchase date is one year after grant. Shares purchased under the GESPP in 2004 and 2003 were 156,256 and 188,862, respectively. There were no shares purchased under the 2005 grant as the share price at December 31, 2005 was less than the discounted grant date value.

Stock plan transactions were:


  Shares or Units of Common Stock Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
 
  Available
for Grant
Under
Option or Units
Options
Exercisable
Balance at January 1, 2003   6,480,012     9,661,908   $ 30.66     4,292,202  
Granted options   (2,668,600   2,668,600     30.08        
Exercised       (1,034,528   20.81        
Terminated   754,658     (754,658   33.38        
Lapsed   (107,883   (117,750   36.31        
Reserved for Units   (37,229              
Balance at December 31, 2003   4,420,958     10,423,572     31.18     5,146,449  
Granted options   (212,000   212,000     34.87        
Exercised       (2,565,747   26.88        
Terminated   570,398     (570,398   35.66        
Lapsed   (91,749   (80,334   36.00        
Reserved for Units   9,682                
Restricted Stock Units Awarded   (508,660   508,660     36.09        
Balance at December 31, 2004   4,188,629     7,927,753     32.26     4,995,161  
Granted options   (266,000   266,000     40.41        
Exercised       (654,256   28.15        
Terminated   443,003     (443,003   40.45        
Restricted Stock Units Awarded   (511,319   511,319     38.54        
Balance at December 31, 2005   3,854,313     7,607,813   $ 31.22     5,614,291  

The weighted average exercise prices of the Company’s options exercisable at December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 were $32.18, $32.82 and $33.02, respectively. The following table summarizes information concerning currently outstanding and exercisable options:


Range of Exercise Prices $15-$25 $25-$30 $30-$35 $35-$50
Number outstanding 70,667 2,646,547 3,120,714 860,500
Weighted average remaining contractual life, in years 4.9 6.6 5.8 4.9
Weighed average exercise price $18.34 $28.93 $33.16 $42.39
Number exercisable 70,667 2,075,294 2,936,148 532,182
Weighed average exercisable price $18.34 $28.67 $33.19 $42.17

Using the Black-Scholes option valuation model, the estimated fair values of options granted during 2005, 2004 and 2003 were $10.57, $9.42 and $7.84, respectively. The Black-Scholes model was developed for use in estimating the fair value of traded options that have no vesting restrictions. In addition, such models require the use of subjective assumptions, including expected stock price volatility. In management's opinion, such valuation models do not necessarily provide a reliable single measure of the fair value of its employee stock options.

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Principal assumptions used in applying the Black-Scholes model were:


  2005 2004 2003
Risk-free interest rate   4.2   4.0   2.6
Expected life, in years   5     5     5  
Expected volatility   26.9   29.6   31.7
Expected dividend yield   1.7   1.9   2.0

NOTE 13.    SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company manages its operations by major geographical region. Flavors and fragrances have similar economic and operational characteristics including research and development, the nature of the creative and production processes, the type of customers, and the methods by which products are distributed. Accounting policies used for segment reporting are identical to those described in Note 1.

The Company evaluates the performance of its geographic regions based on segment profit which is income before taxes on income, excluding interest expense, other income and expense and the effects of restructuring and other charges and accounting changes. The Company is divided into five geographic regions for management purposes: North America, Europe, India, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The Global Expenses caption represents corporate and headquarters-related expenses which include legal, finance, human resource and other administrative expenses not allocable to individual regions. Transfers between geographic regions are accounted for at prices that approximate arm's-length prices. Unallocated assets are principally cash, short-term investments and other corporate and headquarters-related assets. The Company’s reportable segment information follows:


2005
(Dollars in thousands)
North
America
Europe India Latin
America
Asia
Pacific
Global
Expenses
Eliminations Consolidated
Sales to unaffiliated customers $ 610,620   $ 754,157   $ 57,789   $ 244,805   $ 326,022         $   $ 1,993,393  
Transfers between areas   74,312     183,022     37     589     42,165           (300,125    
Total sales $ 684,932   $ 937,179   $ 57,826   $ 245,394   $ 368,187         $ (300,125 $ 1,993,393  
Segment profit $ 51,161   $ 188,571   $ 13,631   $ 26,172   $ 57,683   $ (45,783 $ (1,240 $ 290,195  
Restructuring and other charges   (9,978   (10,569   (972   (559   (1,241               (23,319
Operating profit $ 41,183   $ 178,002   $ 12,659   $ 25,613   $ 56,442   $ (45,783 $ (1,240 $ 266,876  
Interest expense                                             (23,956
Other income (expense), net                                             3,268  
Income before taxes on income                                           $ 246,188  
Segment assets $ 868,618   $ 842,595   $ 81,764   $ 203,466   $ 480,826   $ 286,686   $ (125,759 $ 2,638,196  

2004
(Dollars in thousands)
North
America
Europe India Latin
America
Asia
Pacific
Global
Expenses
Eliminations Consolidated
Sales to unaffiliated customers $ 635,887   $ 812,588   $ 50,537   $ 219,126   $ 315,515         $   $ 2,033,653  
Transfers between areas   79,389     189,514     1,431     846     31,081           (302,261    
Total sales $ 715,276   $ 1,002,102   $ 51,968   $ 219,972   $ 346,596         $ (302,261 $ 2,033,653  
Segment profit $ 73,984   $ 230,878   $ 11,315   $ 27,242   $ 55,273   $ (54,261 $ (2,322 $ 342,109  
Restructuring and other charges   (7,648   (23,485       (33   (664               (31,830
Operating profit $ 66,336   $ 207,393   $ 11,315   $ 27,209   $ 54,609   $ (54,261 $ (2,322 $ 310,279  
Interest expense                                             (24,002
Other income (expense), net                                             (5,275
Income before taxes on income                                           $ 281,002  
Segment assets $ 841,076   $ 880,987   $ 72,634   $ 185,115   $ 446,364   $ 65,734   $ (128,616 $ 2,363,294  

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2003
(Dollars in thousands)
North
America
Europe India Latin
America
Asia
Pacific
Global
Expenses
Eliminations Consolidated
Sales to unaffiliated customers $ 583,224   $ 782,680   $ 42,209   $ 208,714   $ 284,693         $   $ 1,901,520  
Transfers between areas   77,471     155,305     939     683     22,512           (256,910    
Total sales $ 660,695   $ 937,985   $ 43,148   $ 209,397   $ 307,205         $ (256,910 $ 1,901,520  
Segment profit $ 67,758   $ 209,073   $ 10,728   $ 32,907   $ 50,326   $ (42,107 $ (490 $ 328,195  
Restructuring and other charges   (20,172   (16,936   (441   (1,296   (3,576               (42,421
Operating profit $ 47,586   $ 192,137   $ 10,287   $ 31,611   $ 46,750   $ (42,107 $ (490 $ 285,774  
Interest expense                                             (28,477
Other income (expense), net                                             (5,437
Income before taxes on income                                           $ 251,860  
Segment assets $ 785,619   $ 978,020   $ 59,512   $ 156,809   $ 385,515   $ 43,362   $ (101,945 $ 2,306,892  

  Capital Expenditures Depreciation and Amortization
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2003 2005 2004 2003
North America $ 21,720   $ 20,733   $ 21,153   $ 40,646   $ 41,429   $ 43,063  
Europe   33,588     24,800     21,565     29,444     32,102     29,909  
India   4,216     1,217     2,318     1,211     1,088     938  
Latin America   2,824     3,231     4,919     6,455     3,743     3,368  
Asia Pacific   25,026     15,132     11,322     11,684     10,084     7,112  
Unallocated assets   6,059     5,494     4,678     2,488     2,550     2,331  
Consolidated $ 93,433   $ 70,607   $ 65,955   $ 91,928   $ 90,996   $ 86,721  

Sales of fragrance products were $1,135.7 million, $1,123.1 million, and $1,035.0 million in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Sales of flavor products were $857.7 million, $910.6 million and $866.5 million in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Sales in the United States, based on the final country of destination of the Company's products, were $536.7 million, $564.5 million and $520.3 million in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. No other country of destination exceeded 7% of consolidated sales. No customer accounted for 10% or more of sales. Total long-lived assets consists of net property, plant and equipment and net intangible assets and amounted to $1,271.8 million, $1,291.0 million and $1,310.0 million at December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively; of the respective totals, $946.3 million, $965.6 million and $998.4 million were located in the United States. No other individual country had long-lived assets that exceeded 10% of total long-lived assets.

Net foreign exchange transactions resulted in a gain of $2.8 million in 2005, a loss of $2.9 million in 2004, and a gain of $1.6 million in 2003, and are included in Other (income) expense, net.

NOTE 14.    RETIREMENT BENEFITS

The Company and most of its subsidiaries have pension and/or other retirement benefit plans covering substantially all employees. Pension benefits are generally based on years of service and on compensation during the final years of employment. Plan assets consist primarily of equity securities and corporate and government fixed income securities. Substantially all pension benefit costs are funded as accrued; such funding is limited, where applicable, to amounts deductible for income tax purposes. Certain other retirement benefits are provided by balance sheet accruals. Contributions to defined contribution plans are mainly determined as a percentage of salary. Contributions to the Company's United States defined contribution plan match 50% of the employee's pre-tax contributions, up to plan limits.

In addition to pension benefits, certain health care and life insurance benefits are provided to qualifying United States employees upon retirement from the Company. Such coverage is provided through insurance plans with premiums based on benefits paid. The Company does not generally provide health care or life insurance coverage for retired employees of foreign subsidiaries; such benefits are provided in most foreign countries by government-sponsored plans, and the cost of these programs is not significant to the Company.

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The plan assets and benefit obligations of a majority of the Company’s pension plans are measured at December 31 of each year.

Pension expense included the following components:


  U.S. Plans Non-U.S. Plans
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2003 2005 2004 2003
Service cost for benefits earned $ 9,381   $ 8,650   $ 8,466   $ 10,317   $ 9,085   $ 8,226  
Interest cost on projected benefit obligation   21,218     20,225     19,771     28,701     26,313     23,564  
Expected return on plan assets   (21,406   (20,828   (21,875   (32,514   (28,314   (24,418
Net amortization and deferrals   5,357     2,160     709     8,457     6,792     5,983  
Settlement and curtailment                   (3,168   (140
Special termination benefits       230     1,300         91     1,223  
Defined benefit plans   14,550     10,437     8,371     14,961     10,799     14,438  
Defined contribution and other retirement plans   2,884     2,709     2,533     3,265     3,610     3,217  
Total pension expense $ 17,434   $ 13,146   $ 10,904   $ 18,226   $ 14,409   $ 17,655  
Weighted-average actuarial assumptions used to determine pension data:                                    
Discount rate   6.00   6.25   6.75   5.03   5.25   5.48
Expected return on plan assets   8.25   8.25   8.50   6.86   6.82   7.37
Rate of compensation increase   3.75   3.75   4.00   2.41   2.52   2.80

With respect to the U.S. plans, the expected return on plan assets was determined based on an asset allocation model using the current benchmark allocation, real rates of return by asset class and an anticipated inflation rate. The benchmark asset allocation was approximately 10 - 20% employed in cash and fixed income investments expected to yield 1.1%; 10 - 20% employed in corporate and government bonds expected to yield 1.7 - 2.8%; and 65 - 75% in equity investments with a long-term expected yield of 8.5 - 9.1%. The inflation rate assumed in the model was 2.5%. The U.S. plan has employed a similar asset allocation strategy for the prior 15 years and has achieved a compound annual return of 9.2% during this period. The expected annual rate of return for the non-U.S. plans employs a similar set of criteria adapted for local investments, inflation rates and in certain cases specific government requirements. The discount rate used for determining future pension obligations for each individual plan is based on a review of long-term bonds that receive a high rating from a recognized rating agency. Additionally, for the U.S. plans, the discount rate was based on the internal rate of return for a portfolio of Moody’s Aa3-rated bonds with maturities that are consistent with the projected future benefit payment obligations of the plan. The rate of compensation increase is based on plan experience.

The Company's pension plan asset allocation for U.S. plans at December 31, 2005 and 2004, and target allocation for 2006 is:


  Target
Allocation
2006
Percentage of Plan Assets
  December 31,
Asset Category 2005 2004
Equity investments 65 - 75%   70   73
Corporate and government bonds 10 - 20%   13   14
Other cash and short-term investments 10 - 20%   17   13
Total     100   100

Equity investments include the Company's common stock valued at $17.4 million (6.0% of total plan assets) and $22.2 million (8.0% of total plan assets) at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

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In 2005, the percentage of assets held in equities decreased primarily as a result of market performance relative to fixed income investments. There has been no change in the Company's long-term target allocation.

The Company's pension plan asset allocation for Non-U.S. plans at December 31, 2005 and 2004, and target allocation for 2006 is:


  Target
Allocation
2006
Percentage of Plan Assets
  December 31,
Asset Category 2005 2004
Equity investments 30 - 40%   44   37
Corporate and government bonds 40 - 50%   41   43
Other cash and short-term investments 10 - 20%   15   20
Total     100   100

Total Non-U.S. plan assets consist of a blend of various asset mixes defined by each plan’s liability profile and country or statutory requirements. Each plan maintains an investment policy appropriate to meet its benefit obligations.

Expense recognized for postretirement benefits other than pensions included the following components:


(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2003
Service cost for benefits earned $ 3,044   $ 2,141   $ 2,751  
Interest on benefit obligation   6,034     4,524     6,220  
Net amortization and deferrals   768     (791   1,044  
Total postretirement benefit expense $ 9,846   $ 5,874   $ 10,015  

The following weighted average assumptions were used to determine the Company’s postretirement benefit expense for the years ended December 31:


  2005 2004 2003
Discount rate   6.00   6.25   6.75
Current medical cost trend rate   9.00   9.00   10.00
Ultimate medical cost trend rate   4.75   4.75   5.00
Medical cost trend rate decreases to ultimate rate in year   2011     2010     2009  

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Changes in pension and postretirement benefit obligations were:


  U.S. Pension Plans Non-U.S. Pension Plans Postretirement Benefits
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2005 2004 2005 2004
Benefit obligation at beginning
of year
$ 345,061   $ 322,798   $ 619,728   $ 513,943   $ 83,463   $ 84,995  
Service cost for benefits earned   9,381     8,650     10,317     9,085     3,044     2,141  
Interest cost on projected
benefit obligation
  21,218     20,225     28,701     26,313     6,034     4,524  
Actuarial loss   20,867     6,535     48,899     53,363     22,885     9,221  
Plan amendments   928     3,857         807          
Plan participants' contributions           1,419     1,235     966     608  
Benefits paid   (19,246   (17,234   (21,484   (20,804   (4,913   (5,588
Medicare Rx subsidy                       (12,438
Divestitures               (3,060        
Settlements               (3,277        
Curtailments               (1,459        
Special termination benefits       230         91          
Translation adjustments           (73,369   43,491          
Benefit obligation at end of year $ 378,209   $ 345,061   $ 614,211   $ 619,728   $ 111,479   $ 83,463  

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The following weighted average assumptions were used to determine the Company’s pension benefit obligations under the plans at December 31:


  U.S. Plans Non-U.S. Plans
  2005 2004 2005 2004
Discount rate   5.75   6.00   4.57   5.03
Rate of compensation increase   3.75   3.75   2.46   2.41

The following weighted average assumptions were used to determine the Company’s postretirement benefit obligations at December 31:


  2005 2004
Discount rate   5.75   6.00
Current medical cost trend rate   8.00   9.00
Ultimate medical cost trend rate   4.75   4.75
Medical cost trend rate decreases to ultimate rate in year   2011     2011  

Changes in pension plan assets were:


  U.S. Plans Non-U.S. Plans
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2005 2004
Fair value of plan assets at beginning of year $ 278,646   $ 250,094   $ 493,385   $ 411,198  
Actual return on plan assets   10,513     25,308     69,452     37,383  
Employer contributions   24,277     20,478     53,869     33,017  
Participants contributions           1,419     1,235  
Divestitures               (360
Settlements               (3,277
Benefits paid   (19,246   (17,234   (21,484   (20,804
Translation adjustments           (61,552   34,993  
Fair value of plan assets at end of year $ 294,190   $ 278,646   $ 535,089   $ 493,385  

The funded status of pension and postretirement plans at December 31 was:


  U.S. Pension Plans Non-U.S. Pension Plans Postretirement Benefits
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2005 2004 2005 2004
Plan assets (less than) projected benefit obligation $ (84,019 $ (66,415 $ (79,122 $ (126,343 $ (111,479 $ (83,463
Post measurement date contributions           114     128          
Remaining balance of unrecognized net (asset) liability established at adoption
of FAS 87
          62     195          
Unrecognized prior service
cost (benefit)
  11,894     11,113     3,215     4,276     (21,194   (23,389
Unrecognized net loss   83,754     57,204     179,895     197,907     55,397     35,475  
Net asset (liability) $ 11,629   $ 1,902   $ 104,164   $ 76,163   $ (77,276 $ (71,377

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Pension assets and liabilities included in the Consolidated Balance Sheet at December 31 were:


  U.S. Plans Non-U.S. Plans
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2005 2004
Prepaid benefit cost $   $   $ 72,184   $ 55,989  
Accrued benefit liability   (65,322   (45,427   (51,110   (106,255
Accumulated other comprehensive income   63,964     34,987     83,057     124,726  
Intangible asset   12,987     12,342     33     1,703  
Net amount recognized $ 11,629   $ 1,902   $ 104,164   $ 76,163  

At December 31, 2005, of the net amount recognized above, $65.2 million of the Non-U.S. prepaid benefit cost is included in Other Assets with the remaining amount included in Prepaid expenses in the Consolidated Balance Sheet.

At the end of 2005 and 2004, the projected benefit obligation (‘‘PBO’’), accumulated benefit obligation (‘‘ABO’’), and fair value of plan assets for the U.S. pension plans and pension plans outside the U.S., where the accumulated benefit obligation exceeds the assets, were:


  U.S. Plans Non-U.S. Plans
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2005 2004
Projected benefit obligation $ 378,209   $ 345,061   $ 299,012   $ 407,713  
Accumulated benefit obligation   359,512     324,073     294,193     391,662  
Fair value of plan assets   294,190     278,646     242,970     285,290  

The effect of a .25% decrease in the discount rate on the U.S. pension plan would be to increase the pension expense in the subsequent year by approximately $0.9 million. The same change in the discount rate would result in an increase in the ABO of $8.9 million, an increase in the additional minimum pension liability (‘‘AML’’) included in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (‘‘AOCI’’) of $8.9 million, and an increase in the PBO of $9.7 million at the 2005 year-end. The effect of a .25% decrease in the long term rate of return on plan assets would increase expense in the subsequent year by $0.7 million.

The effect of a .25% decrease in the discount rate on the Non-U.S. pension plans would be to increase the pension expense in the subsequent year by approximately $1.9 million. The same change would result in an increase in the ABO of $22.6 million, an increase in the AML included in AOCI of $36.3 million and an increase in the PBO of $25.4 million at the 2005 year-end. The effect of a .25% decrease in the long term rate of return on plan assets would increase expense in the subsequent year by $1.3 million.

The effect of a .25% decrease in the discount rate on the postretirement benefit plan would be to increase the expense in the subsequent year by approximately $0.5 million. The same change in the discount rate would result in an increase in the APBO of $4.7 million.

The special termination benefits in 2004 are the result of termination agreements in the U.S. providing for enhanced retirement benefits to eligible employees. The amounts reported as a curtailment, a settlement and a divestiture in the 2004 Non-U.S. plans is a result of the sale of the Company’s fruit businesses to Frutarom.

The Company recorded in AOCI an AML of $147.1 million ($100.4 million net of taxes) and $159.7 million ($110.7 million net of taxes) at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively, as required by SFAS No. 87, ‘‘Employers’ Accounting for Pensions.’’ The AML is reflected in Retirement liabilities and is prescribed when the accumulated benefit obligation in the plan exceeds the fair value of the underlying pension plan assets and accrued pension liabilities. The adjustment relates to plans in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland and Japan. Changes in the AML included in AOCI for U.S. and Non-U.S. pension plans were as follows:

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  U.S. Plans Non-U.S. Plans
(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) 2005 2004 2005 2004
Increase in additional minimum pension liability included in Other comprehensive income $ 28,977   $ 905   $ (41,669 $ 38,286  

Information about the expected cash flows for the pension plans and postretirement benefit plans are as follows:


(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) U.S. Plans Non-U.S. Plans Postretirement
Benefits
Employer Contributions                  
2006 (expected) $ 2,701   $ 22,143   $ 3,896  
Expected Benefit Payments                  
2006   18,061     20,425     3,896  
2007   18,567     21,432     4,041  
2008   19,528     22,477     4,256  
2009   20,293     24,150     4,434  
2010   21,294     24,964     4,673  
2011 – 2015   127,615     145,192     27,544  

Expected U.S. pension plan employer contributions include approximately $2.7 million in benefit payments for a non-qualified plan. Non-U.S. plan contributions are based on current actuarial assumptions and funding plans in place.

The effect of a 1% increase in the assumed medical rate of inflation would increase the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation, and the annual postretirement expense, by approximately $20.8 million and $2.0 million, respectively; a 1% decrease in the rate would decrease the obligation and expense by approximately $16.4 million and $1.6 million, respectively.

The Company amended its postretirement medical and life insurance plan in 2003. The plan changes require retirees to increase their contribution amounts over a three-year period to a rate equal to active employees and for all retiree prescription co-payments to increase to the amounts currently paid by active employees.

On December 8, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. In accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board Staff Position No. 106-2 (‘‘FSP FAS 106-2’’), ‘‘Accounting and Disclosure Requirements Related to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003,’’ the Company accounted for the effects of the Act and recognized the impact of the Medicare prescription drug subsidy retrospectively from January 1, 2004 beginning July 1, 2004. The subsidy reduced the January 1, 2005 and 2004 accumulated postretirement benefit obligation by $14.5 million and $12.4 million, respectively, and the 2005 and 2004 annual postretirement expense by $2.0 million and $1.8 million, respectively.

The expected benefit payments shown above are net of the Medicare Part D subsidy. The following table shows the expected benefit payments prior to reflecting the subsidy, the expected subsidy and the expected benefit payments reflecting the subsidy.


(DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS) Not Reflecting
Medicare Part D
Subsidy
Medicare Part D
Subsidy
Reflecting
Medicare Part D
Subsidy
Expected Benefit Payments                  
2006 $ 4,359   $ (463 $ 3,896  
2007   4,552     (511   4,041  
2008   4,814     (558   4,256  
2009   5,038     (604   4,434  
2010   5,317     (644   4,673  
2011 – 2015   31,442     (3,898   27,544  

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NOTE 15.    FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

The Company enters into foreign currency forward contracts with the objective of reducing exposure to cash flow volatility associated with foreign currency receivables and payables, and with anticipated purchases of certain raw materials used in operations. These contracts, the counterparties to which are major international financial institutions, generally involve the exchange of one currency for a second currency at a future date, and have maturities not exceeding six months. The notional amount and maturity dates of such contracts match those of the underlying transactions. The gain or loss on the hedging instrument is recorded in earnings at the same time as the transaction being hedged is recorded in earnings. The associated asset or liability related to the open hedge instrument is recorded in Current Assets or Current Liabilities, as applicable.

The Company employs various interest rate swaps and debt issuances with the objective of managing and optimizing its interest rate exposure. In 2001, the Company entered into certain interest swap agreements effectively converting the fixed coupon rate on its 6.45% Notes to a variable short-term rate based on the LIBOR plus an interest markup. In response to changes in market conditions and the value of the swaps, and in 2003, in connection with the Company's debt repurchase, the Company periodically amended the swap agreements, changing the related interest spread. As a result of these amendments, the counterparty paid the Company $11.6 million and $56.5 million in 2003 and 2002, respectively, including accrued interest of $3.7 million and $6.5 million, respectively. The net realized gains on the swaps have been deferred, classified as a separate component of debt, and are amortized as a reduction in interest expense over the remaining term of the Notes. In 2003, the Company terminated all such swap agreements; as a result, the interest rate on the Notes, including amortization of the deferred swap gains, was fixed at 3.4% through maturity of the Notes.

The Company has executed a 10-year Yen - U.S. dollar currency swap related to the monthly sale and purchase of products between the U.S. and Japan. The annual notional value of this swap is approximately $5.0 million. Gains and losses related to this swap are recorded currently, and the mark-to-market adjustment related to the value of the swap is reflected as a component of Accumulated other comprehensive income.

In 2002, the Company entered into certain interest rate swap agreements effectively converting the fixed rate on its long-term Japanese Yen borrowings to a variable short-term rate based on the Japanese Yen LIBOR rate plus an interest markup. These swaps are designated as qualified fair value hedges. During 2003 and 2005, the Company amended the swaps and the counterparty paid the Company $3.0 million and $0.8 million, respectively, including accrued interest of $0.5 million and $0.1 million, respectively. In both cases, these net gains have been deferred, are classified as a separate component of debt and are being amortized over the remaining term of the debt. To the extent the Company has not received cash or otherwise amended or settled any swap agreements, any applicable mark-to-market adjustment relating to that swap is included as a separate component of debt. The Company had no ineffective interest rate swaps at December 31, 2005.

NOTE 16.    CONCENTRATIONS OF CREDIT RISK

The Company has no significant concentrations of risk in financial instruments. Temporary investments are made in a well-diversified portfolio of high-quality, liquid obligations of government, corporate and financial institutions. There are also limited concentrations of credit risk with respect to trade receivables because of the large number of customers spread across many industries and geographic regions.

NOTE 17.    COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Minimum rental commitments under non-cancelable operating leases are $21.7 million in 2006, $20.6 million in 2007, $17.6 million in 2008, $15.6 million in 2009, $15.2 million in 2010, and thereafter through 2030, the aggregate lease obligations are $218.9 million. The corresponding rental expense amounted to $21.3 million, $20.8 million and $20.7 million in 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. None of the Company’s leases contain step rent provisions or escalation clauses nor do they require capital improvement funding.

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The Company is party to a number of lawsuits and claims related primarily to flavoring supplied by the Company to manufacturers of butter flavor popcorn. At each balance sheet date, or more frequently as conditions warrant, the Company reviews the status of each pending claim, as well as its insurance coverage for such claims with due consideration given to potentially applicable deductibles, retentions and reservation of rights under its insurance policies, and the advice of its outside legal counsel and a third party expert in modeling insurance deductible amounts with respect to all these matters. While the ultimate outcome of any litigation cannot be predicted, management believes that adequate provision has been made with respect to all known claims. There can be no assurance that future events will not require the Company to increase the amount it has accrued for any matter or accrue for a matter that has not been previously accrued.

The Company recorded its expected liability with respect to these claims in Other liabilities and expected recoveries from its insurance carrier group in Other Assets. The Company believes that realization of the insurance receivable is probable due to the terms of the insurance policies, the financial strength of the insurance carrier group and the payment experience to date of the carrier group as it relates to these claims.

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(a)(2) FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.    The following schedule is included in Part IV of this Annual Report on Form 10-K:


Schedule II – Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves for the three years ended December 31, 2005   S-1  
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on Financial Statement Schedule   69  

All other schedules are omitted because they are not applicable or the required information is shown in the financial statements or notes thereto.

(a)(3) EXHIBITS


Number  
3(i) Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Registrant, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(g) to Registrant’s Report on Form 10-Q dated August 12, 2002.
3(ii) By-laws of Registrant, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated January 31, 2006.
4.1 Shareholder’s Protection Rights Agreement dated as of March 21, 2000 between Registrant and The Bank of New York, as Rights Agent.
4.1a First Amendment dated as of September 26, 2000, to Shareholder Protection Rights Agreement.
4.1b Letter Agreement between the Registrant and Wachovia Bank, National Association (‘‘Wachovia’’) dated as of October 31, 2002 appointing Wachovia as Successor Rights Agent pursuant to the Shareholder Protection Rights Agreement dated as of March 21, 2000 and amended as of September 26, 2000, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a) to Registrant’s Report on Form 10-Q dated November 12, 2002.
4.2 Specimen Certificates of Registrant’s Common Stock bearing legend notifying of Shareholder Protection Rights Agreement, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(b) to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 dated on September 29, 2000. (Reg. No. 333-46932).
4.3 Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2001, between International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and Bank One Trust Company, N.A. (now JPMorgan Chase Bank), as Trustee, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 dated June 26, 2001 (Reg. No. 333-63910).
4.4 First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 7, 2001, between International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and Bank One Trust Company, N.A. (now JPMorgan Chase Bank), as Trustee, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 dated June 26, 2001 (Reg. No. 333-63910).
4.5 Form of 6.45% Note due 2006 (included in 4.4), incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2.1 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 dated June 26, 2001 (Reg. No. 333-63910).
4.6 Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 7, 2001, among International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and Salomon Smith Barney Inc., Banc One Capitals Markets, Inc., First Union Securities, Inc. and Tokyo-Mitsubishi International plc, as representatives of the Initial Purchasers, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 dated June 26, 2001 (Reg. No. 333-63910).

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Number  
*10.1 Memorandum of Understanding between Registrant and Richard A. Goldstein, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Registrant, approved by Registrant’s Board of Directors on April 13, 2000, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(a) to Registrant’s Report on Form 10-Q dated August 14, 2000.
*10.2 Performance Incentive Award Agreement in respect of a performance incentive award of 200,000 restricted shares of Company Common Stock approved by the Company’s Board of Directors on August 1, 2002, granted to Richard A. Goldstein, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(a) to Registrant’s Report on Form 10-Q dated November 12, 2002.
*10.3 Supplemental Retirement Plan adopted by Board of Directors on October 29, 1986, including amendments effective January 1, 2001, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(c) to Registrant’s Report on Form 10-Q dated May 13, 2003.
*10.4 2000 Stock Award and Incentive Plan adopted by the Registrant’s Board of Directors on March 9, 2000 as amended and restated through November 8, 2004.
*10.5 2000 Supplemental Stock Award Plan adopted by the Registrant’s Board of Directors on November 14, 2000 as amended and restated through November 8, 2004.
*10.6 Registrant’s Executive Death Benefit Plan effective July 1, 1990.
*10.7 Registrant’s Vision 2001 Compensation Program, as amended, adopted by the Registrant’s Board of Directors on December 12, 2000, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated January 28, 2005.
*10.8 Performance Criteria for the Company’s Annual Incentive Plan for 2004 and applicable to senior management’s restricted stock unit award in 2004 and for the 2003-2005 and 2004-2006 cycles under the Company’s long term incentive plan, incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated January 28, 2005, including Exhibit 10.1 thereto.
*10.9 Performance Criteria for the Company’s Annual Incentive Plan for 2005 and applicable to senior management’s restricted stock unit award in 2005 and for the 2005-2007 cycle under the Company’s long term incentive plan, incorporated by reference to Exhibits 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated March 11, 2005.     
*10.10 Performance Criteria for the Company’s Annual Incentive Plan for 2006 and for the 2006-2008 cycle under the Company’s long term incentive plan, incorporated by reference to Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated March 10, 2006.     
*10.11 Form of Non-Employee Director’s Restricted Stock Unit Agreement under International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. 2000 Stock Award and Incentive Plan incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated December 15, 2004.
*10.12 Form of U.S. Restricted Stock Units Agreement under International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. 2000 Stock Award and Incentive Plan, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8a to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated October 7, 2004.
*10.13 Form of U.S. Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units Agreement under International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. 2000 Stock Award and Incentive Plan, Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8b to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated October 7, 2004.
*10.14 Form of Employee Stock Option Agreement under International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. 2000 Stock Award and Incentive Plan, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Report on Form 10-Q dated November 9, 2004.

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Number  
*10.15 Form of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. Stock Option Agreement under 2000 Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Registrant’s Report on Form 10-Q dated November 9, 2004.
*10.16 Restated and Amended Executive Separation Policy, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Registrants Report on Form 8-K dated December 15, 2004.
*10.17 Registrant’s Employee Stock Option Plan of 1992, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to Registrant’s Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2002.
*10.18 1997 Employee Stock Option Plan.
*10.19 Amendment to 1997 Employee Stock Option Plan as amended by Registrant’s Board of Directors on February 8, 2000.
*10.20 Deferred Compensation Plan adopted by Registrant’s Board of Directors on December 12, 2000, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 dated May 16, 2001 (Reg. No. 333-61072).    
*10.21 Trust Agreement dated October 4, 2000 among Registrant, First Union National Bank and Buck Consultants Inc. approved by Registrant’s Board of Directors on September 12, 2000.
10.22 Amendment dated August 2, 2005 to the Trust Agreement dated October 4, 2000 among Registrant, First Union National Bank and Buck Consultants Inc., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Report on Form 10-Q dated August 4, 2005.
10.23 1990 Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors.
*10.24 2000 Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors as amended and restated as of December 15, 2004, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Registrants Report on Form 8-K dated December 15, 2004.
*10.25 Director Charitable Contribution Program adopted by the Board of Directors on February 14, 1995.
*10.26 Resolutions approving Non-Employee Directors’ Annual Stock Grant Program adopted by Registrant’s Board of Directors on September 12, 2000, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99(c) to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 dated on September 29, 2000 (Reg. No. 333-46932).
*10.27 Non-Employee Director Compensation Arrangements, adopted by Registrant’s Board of Directors on December 15, 2004, incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated December 15, 2004.
10.28 Multi-currency Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated November 22, 2005, among International Flavors & Fragrances (Luxembourg) S.A.R.L., certain subsidiaries, the banks named therein, including Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Fortis Bank S.A./N.V., Bank of America N.A., Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company, BNP Paribas, ING Bank N.V., J.P. Morgan Chase and Wachovia Bank, National Association, as mandated lead arrangers, and Citibank International PLC, as Facility Agent, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated November 29, 2005.
10.29 Separation Agreement dated as of January 13, 2006 between D. Wayne Howard, former Executive Vice President, Global Operations of the Company, and the Company, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated January 18, 2006.

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Number  
*10.30 Form of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. 2000 Stock Award and Incentive Plan Restricted Stock Unit Agreement incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated March 10, 2006.
*10.31 Form of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. 2000 Stock Award and Incentive Plan Purchased Restricted Stock Agreement incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated March 10, 2006.
*10.32 Form of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. 2000 Stock Award and Incentive Plan Stock Settled Appreciation Rights Agreement incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated March 10, 2006.
*10.33 Long Term Incentive Choice Program Summary incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Registrant’s Report on Form 8-K dated March 10, 2006.
21 List of Principal Subsidiaries
23 Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
31.1 Certification of Richard A. Goldstein pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002.
31.2 Certification of Douglas J. Wetmore pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002.
32 Certification of Richard A. Goldstein and Douglas J. Wetmore pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as adopted pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
* Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULE

To the Board of Directors of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.:

Our audits of the consolidated financial statements, of management's assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting and of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting referred to in our report dated March 13, 2006 appearing in the 2005 Annual Report to Shareholders of International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc. (which report, consolidated financial statements and assessment are incorporated by reference in this Annual Report on Form 10-K) also included an audit of the financial statement schedule listed in Item 15(a)(2) of this Form 10-K. In our opinion, this financial statement schedule presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein when read in conjunction with the related consolidated financial statements.


/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
New York, New York
March 13, 2006

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Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


  INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
  (Registrant)
  By /s/  Douglas J. Wetmore
  Douglas J. Wetmore
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer

Dated: March 13, 2006

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the date indicated:


Principal Executive Officer:
  /s/    Richard A. Goldstein
  Richard A. Goldstein
Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive Officer
Principal Financial and Accounting Officer:
  /s/    Douglas J. Wetmore
  Douglas J. Wetmore
Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
Directors:
  /s/    Richard A. Goldstein
  RICHARD A. GOLDSTEIN
  /s/    Margaret Hayes Adame
  MARGARET HAYES ADAME
  /s/    Gunter Blobel
  GUNTER BLOBEL
  /s/    J. Michael Cook
  J. MICHAEL COOK
  /s/    Peter A. Georgescu
  PETER A. GEORGESCU
  /s/    Alexandra A. Herzan
  ALEXANDRA A. HERZAN
  /s/    Henry W. Howell, Jr.
  HENRY W. HOWELL, JR.
  /s/    Arthur C. Martinez
  ARTHUR C. MARTINEZ
  /s/    Burton M. Tansky
  BURTON M. TANSKY

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INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

SCHEDULE II — VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS AND RESERVES
(In thousands)


  For the Year Ended December 31, 2005
  Balance at
beginning of
period
Additions
charged to
costs and
expenses
Accounts
written off
Translation
adjustments
Balance at
end of
period
Allowance for doubtful accounts $ 17,663   $ 910   $ 2,592   $ (1,160 $ 14,821  

  For the Year Ended December 31, 2004
  Balance at
beginning of
period
Additions
charged to
costs and
expenses
Accounts
written off
Translation
adjustments
Balance at
end of
period
Allowance for doubtful accounts $ 16,212   $ 3,615   $ 3,391   $ 1,227   $ 17,663  

  For the Year Ended December 31, 2003
  Balance at
beginning of
period
Additions
charged to
costs and
expenses
Accounts
written off
Translation
adjustments
Balance at
end of
period
Allowance for doubtful accounts $ 12,933   $ 3,146   $ 1,846   $ 1,979   $ 16,212  

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                         SHAREHOLDER PROTECTION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
    
                                       dated as of
    
                                     March 21, 2000
    
                                         between
    
                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
                                           and
    
                                  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
    
                                     as Rights Agent
    
    
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                         SHAREHOLDER PROTECTION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
    
                                    TABLE OF CONTENTS
                                    -----------------
    
                                        ARTICLE I
                                       DEFINITIONS
    
    1.1     Definitions ....................................................       2
    
                                       ARTICLE II
                                       THE RIGHTS
    
    2.1     Summary of Rights ..............................................      12
    2.2     Legend on Common Stock Certificates ............................      12
    2.3     Exercise of Rights; Separation of Rights .......................      13
    2.4     Adjustments to Exercise Price; Number of Rights ................      16
    2.5     Date on Which Exercise is Effective ............................      18
    2.6     Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating of Rights
            Certificates ...................................................      18
    2.7     Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange ............      19
    2.8     Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Rights Certificates ......      21
    2.9     Persons Deemed Owners ..........................................      22
    2.10    Delivery and Cancellation of Certificates ......................      22
    2.11    Agreement of Rights Holders ....................................      23
    
                                       ARTICLE III
                              ADJUSTMENTS TO THE RIGHTS IN
                            THE EVENT OF CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS
    
    3.1     Flip-in ........................................................      24
    3.2     Flip-over ......................................................      27
    
                                       ARTICLE IV
                                    THE RIGHTS AGENT
    
    4.1     General ........................................................      29
    4.2     Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent ......      29
    4.3     Duties of Rights Agent .........................................      31
    4.4     Change of Rights Agent .........................................      35
    
    
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                                        ARTICLE V
                                      MISCELLANEOUS
    
    5.1     Redemption .....................................................      37
    5.2     Expiration .....................................................      37
    5.3     Issuance of New Rights Certificates ............................      38
    5.4     Supplements and Amendments .....................................      39
    5.5     Fractional Shares ..............................................      39
    5.6     Rights of Action ...............................................      39
    5.7     Holder of Rights Not Deemed a Shareholder ......................      40
    5.8     Notice of Proposed Actions .....................................      41
    5.9     Notices ........................................................      41
    5.10    Suspension of Exercisability ...................................      42
    5.11    Costs of Enforcement ...........................................      42
    5.12    Successors .....................................................      43
    5.13    Benefits of this Agreement .....................................      43
    5.14    Determination and Actions by the Board of Directors, etc .......      43
    5.15    Descriptive Headings ...........................................      44
    5.16    Governing Law ..................................................      44
    5.17    Counterparts ...................................................      44
    5.18    Severability ...................................................      44
    
                                        EXHIBITS
    
    Exhibit A   Form of Rights Certificate (Together with Form of Election to
                Exercise)
    
    
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                         SHAREHOLDER PROTECTION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
                         ---------------------------------------
    
          SHAREHOLDER PROTECTION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (as amended from time to time,
    this "Agreement"), dated as of March 21, 2000, between International Flavors &
    Fragrances Inc., a New York corporation (the "Company"), and The Bank of New
    York, a New York banking corporation, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent", which
    term shall include any successor Rights Agent hereunder).
    
                                       WITNESSETH:
                                       ----------
    
          WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has (a) authorized and
    declared a dividend of one right ("Right") in respect of each share of Common
    Stock (as hereinafter defined) held of record as of the close of business on
    March 24, 2000 (the "Record Time") and (b) as provided in Section 2.4,
    authorized the issuance of one Right in respect of each share of Common Stock
    issued after the Record Time and prior to the Separation Time (as hereinafter
    defined) and, to the extent provided in Section 5.3, each share of Common Stock
    issued after the Separation Time;
    
          WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Right entitles
    the holder thereof, after the Separation Time, to purchase securities or assets
    of the Company (or, in certain cases, securities of certain other entities)
    pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein; and
    
          WHEREAS, the Company desires to appoint the Rights Agent to act on behalf
    of the Company, and the Rights Agent is willing so to act, in connection with
    the issuance, transfer, exchange and replacement of Rights Certificates (as
    hereinafter defined), the exercise of Rights and other matters referred to
    herein;
    
          NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the respective
    agreements set forth herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:
    
                                        ARTICLE I
                                       DEFINITIONS
    
          1.1   Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms
    have the meanings indicated:
    
          "Acquiring Person" shall mean any Person who is a Beneficial Owner of 20%
    or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock; provided, however, that the
    term "Acquiring Person" shall not include any Person (i) who is an Existing
    Shareholder, including any group that is comprised solely of Existing
    Shareholders, until such time hereafter as any such Existing Shareholder or
    group of Existing Shareholders, shall become the Beneficial Owner (other than by
    means of a stock dividend, stock split, gift or inheritance or receipt or
    exercise of, or accrual of any right to exercise, any stock options or shares of
    Common Stock granted by the Company) by purchase of additional shares of Common
    Stock which additional shares, in the aggregate, exceed one percent of the
    outstanding Common Stock at the time of such acquisition, (ii) who shall become
    the Beneficial Owner of 20% or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
    solely as a result of an acquisition by the Company of shares of Common Stock,
    until such time hereafter or thereafter as any of such Persons shall become the
    Beneficial Owner (other than by means of a stock dividend or stock split) of any
    additional shares of Common Stock, (iii) who becomes the Beneficial Owner of 20%
    or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock but who acquired Beneficial
    Ownership of shares of Common Stock without any plan or intention to seek or
    affect control of the Company, if such Person promptly divests, or enters into
    an agreement satisfactory to the Company, in its sole discretion, pursuant to
    
    
    
    
    which it will divest (without exercising or retaining any power, including
    voting power, with respect to such shares), sufficient shares of Common Stock
    (or securities convertible into, exchangeable into or exercisable for Common
    Stock) so that such Person ceases to be the Beneficial Owner of 20% or more of
    the outstanding shares of Common Stock or (iv) who Beneficially Owns shares of
    Common Stock consisting solely of one or more of (A) shares of Common Stock
    Beneficially Owned pursuant to the grant or exercise of an option granted to
    such Person (an "Option Holder") by the Company in connection with an agreement
    to merge with, or acquire, the Company entered into prior to a Flip-in Date, (B)
    shares of Common Stock (or securities convertible into, exchangeable into or
    exercisable for Common Stock), Beneficially Owned by such Option Holder or its
    Affiliates or Associates at the time of grant of such option, and (C) shares of
    Common Stock (or securities convertible into, exchangeable into or exercisable
    for Common Stock) acquired by Affiliates or Associates of such Option Holder
    after the time of such grant which, in the aggregate, amount to less than 1% of
    the outstanding shares of Common Stock. In addition, the Company, any
    wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company and any employee stock ownership or other
    employee benefit plan of the Company or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company
    shall not be an Acquiring Person.
    
          "Affiliate" and "Associate" shall have the respective meanings ascribed to
    such terms in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act, as such Rule is in effect on
    the date of this Agreement.
    
          "Agreement" shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
    
          A Person shall be deemed the "Beneficial Owner", and to have "Beneficial
    Ownership" of, and to "Beneficially Own", any securities as to which such Person
    or any of such Person's Affiliates or Associates is or may be deemed to be the
    beneficial owner of pursuant to Rule 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, as
    such Rules are in effect on the date of this Agreement, as well as any
    securities as to which such Person or any of such Person's Affiliates or
    Associates has the right to become Beneficial Owner (whether such right is
    exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time or the occurrence of
    conditions) pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, or upon the
    exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, rights (other than the Rights),
    warrants or options, or otherwise; provided, however, that a Person shall not be
    deemed the "Beneficial Owner", or to have "Beneficial Ownership" of, or to
    "Beneficially Own", any security (i) solely because such security has been
    tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by such Person or any of
    such Person's Affiliates or Associates until such tendered security is accepted
    for payment or exchange or (ii) solely because such Person or any of such
    Person's Affiliates or Associates has or shares the power to vote or direct the
    voting of such security pursuant to a revocable proxy given in response to a
    public proxy or consent solicitation made to more than ten holders of shares of
    a class of stock of the Company registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act
    and pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable rules and regulations
    under the Exchange Act, except if such power (or the arrangements relating
    thereto) is then reportable under Item 6 of Schedule 13D under the Exchange Act
    (or any similar provision of a comparable or successor report). Notwithstanding
    the foregoing, no officer or director of the Company shall be deemed to
    Beneficially Own any securities of any other Person by virtue of any actions
    such officer
    
    
    
    
    or director takes in such capacity. For purposes of this Agreement, in
    determining the percentage of the outstanding shares of Common Stock with
    respect to which a Person is the Beneficial Owner, all shares as to which such
    Person is deemed the Beneficial Owner shall be deemed outstanding.
    
          "Business Day" shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day
    on which banking institutions in The City of New York are generally authorized
    or obligated by law or executive order to close.
    
          "Close of business" on any given date shall mean 5:00 p.m. New York City
    time on such date or, if such date is not a Business Day, 5:00 p.m. New York
    City time on the next succeeding Business Day.
    
          "Common Stock" shall mean the shares of Common Stock, par value $0.12 1/2
    per share, of the Company.
    
          "Company" shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
    
          "Election to Exercise" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(d)
    hereof.
    
          "Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
    
          "Exchange Ratio" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c)
    hereof.
    
          "Exchange Time" shall mean the time at which the right to exercise the
    Rights shall terminate pursuant to Section 3.1(c) hereof.
    
          "Exercise Price" shall mean, as of any date, the price at which a holder
    may purchase the securities issuable upon exercise of one whole Right. Until
    adjustment thereof in accordance with the terms hereof, the Exercise Price shall
    equal $200.00.
    
          "Existing Shareholder" shall mean any Person who is the Beneficial Owner
    of 20% or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock on February 20, 1990,
    or any Person that is or becomes a fiduciary of any Person or Persons who is or
    are in the aggregate the Beneficial Owner of (or any Person for whose account
    were held) 20% or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock on February 20,
    1990.
    
          "Expansion Factor" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.4(a)
    hereof.
    
          "Expiration Time" shall mean the earliest of (i) the Exchange Time, (ii)
    the Redemption Time, (iii) the close of business on the tenth anniversary of the
    Record Time and (iv) immediately prior to the effective time of a consolidation,
    merger or share exchange of the Company (A) into another corporation or (B) with
    another corporation in which the Company is the surviving corporation but Common
    Stock is converted into cash and/or securities of another corporation, in either
    case pursuant to an agreement entered into by the Company prior to a Stock
    Acquisition Date.
    
          "Flip-in Date" shall mean the tenth business day after any Stock
    
    
    
    
    Acquisition Date or such earlier or later date as the Board of Directors of the
    Company may from time to time fix by resolution adopted prior to the Flip-in
    Date that would otherwise have occurred.
    
          "Flip-over Entity," for purposes of Section 3.2, shall mean (i) in the
    case of a Flip-over Transaction or Event described in clause (i) of the
    definition thereof, the Person issuing any securities into which shares of
    Common Stock are being converted or exchanged and, if no such securities are
    being issued, the other party to such Flip-over Transaction or Event and (ii) in
    the case of a Flip-over Transaction or Event referred to in clause (ii) of the
    definition thereof, the Person receiving the greatest portion of the (A) assets
    or (B) operating income or cash flow being transferred in such Flip-over
    Transaction or Event, provided in all cases if such Person is a subsidiary of a
    corporation, the parent corporation shall be the Flip-Over Entity.
    
          "Flip-over Stock" shall mean the capital stock (or similar equity
    interest) with the greatest voting power in respect of the election of directors
    (or other persons similarly responsible for direction of the business and
    affairs) of the Flip-Over Entity.
    
          "Flip-over Transaction or Event" shall mean a transaction or series of
    transactions after a Flip-in Date in which, directly or indirectly, (i) the
    Company shall consolidate or merge or participate in a share exchange with any
    other Person if, at the time of the consolidation, merger or share exchange or
    at the time the Company enters into any agreement with respect to any such
    consolidation, merger or share exchange, the Acquiring Person Controls the Board
    of Directors of the Company and either (A) any term of or arrangement concerning
    the treatment of shares of capital stock in such consolidation, merger or share
    exchange relating to the Acquiring Person is not identical to the terms and
    arrangements relating to other holders of the Common Stock or (B) the Person
    with whom the transaction or series of transactions occurs is the Acquiring
    Person or an Affiliate or Associate of the Acquiring Person or (ii) the Company
    shall sell or otherwise transfer (or one or more of its Subsidiaries shall sell
    or otherwise transfer) assets (A) aggregating more than 50% of the assets
    (measured by either book value or fair market value) or (B) generating more than
    50% of the operating income or cash flow, of the Company and its Subsidiaries
    (taken as a whole) to any Person (other than the Company or one or more of its
    wholly owned Subsidiaries) or to two or more such Persons which are Affiliates
    or Associates or otherwise acting in concert, if, at the time of the entry by
    the Company (or any such Subsidiary) into an agreement with respect to such sale
    or transfer of assets, the Acquiring Person Controls the Board of Directors of
    the Company. An Acquiring Person shall be deemed to Control the Company's Board
    of Directors when, following a Flip-in Date, the persons who were directors of
    the Company (or persons nominated and/or appointed as directors by vote of a
    majority of such persons) before the Stock Acquisition Date shall cease to
    constitute a majority of the Company's Board of Directors.
    
          "Market Price" per share of any securities on any date shall mean the
    average of the daily closing prices per share of such securities (determined as
    described below) on each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days through and
    including the Trading Day immediately preceding such date; provided, however,
    that if an event of a type analogous to any of
    
    
    
    
    the events described in Section 2.4 hereof shall have caused the closing prices
    used to determine the Market Price on any Trading Days during such period of 20
    Trading Days not to be fully comparable with the closing price on such date,
    each such closing price so used shall be appropriately adjusted in order to make
    it fully comparable with the closing price on such date. The closing price per
    share of any securities on any date shall be the last reported sale price,
    regular way, or, in case no such sale takes place or is quoted on such date, the
    average of the closing bid and asked prices, regular way, for each share of such
    securities, in either case as reported in the principal consolidated transaction
    reporting system with respect to securities listed or admitted to trading on the
    New York Stock Exchange, Inc. or, if the securities are not listed or admitted
    to trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., as reported in the principal
    consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed on
    the principal national securities exchange on which the securities are listed or
    admitted to trading or, if the securities are not listed or admitted to trading
    on any national securities exchange, as reported by the National Association of
    Securities Dealers, Inc. Automated Quotation System or such other system then in
    use, or, if on any such date the securities are not listed or admitted to
    trading on any national securities exchange or quoted by any such organization,
    the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional
    market maker making a market in the securities selected by the Board of
    Directors of the Company; provided, however, that if on any such date the
    securities are not listed or admitted to trading on a national securities
    exchange or traded in the over-the-counter market, the closing price per share
    of such securities on such date shall mean the fair value per share of
    securities on such date as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of
    the Company, after consultation with a nationally recognized investment banking
    firm, and set forth in a certificate delivered to the Rights Agent.
    
          "Option Holder" shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of
    Acquiring Person.
    
          "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, partnership, association, group
    (as such term is used in Rule 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
    as such Rule is in effect on the date of this Agreement), corporation or other
    entity.
    
          "Record Time" shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
    
          "Redemption Price" shall mean an amount equal to one cent, $0.01.
    
          "Redemption Time" shall mean the time at which the right to exercise the
    Rights shall terminate pursuant to Section 5.1 hereof.
    
          "Right" shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
    
          "Rights Agent" shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
    
          "Rights Certificate" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(c)
    hereof.
    
    
    
    
          "Rights Register" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.7(a)
    hereof.
    
          "Separation Time" shall mean the close of business on the earlier of (i)
    the tenth business day (or such later date as the Board of Directors of the
    Company may from time to time fix by resolution adopted prior to the Separation
    Time that would otherwise have occurred) after the date on which any Person
    commences a tender or exchange offer which, if consummated, would result in such
    Person's becoming an Acquiring Person and (ii) the Flip-in Date; provided, that
    if the foregoing results in the Separation Time being prior to the Record Time,
    the Separation Time shall be the Record Time and provided further, that if any
    tender or exchange offer referred to in clause (i) of this paragraph is
    cancelled, terminated or otherwise withdrawn prior to the Separation Time
    without the purchase of any shares of Common Stock pursuant thereto, such offer
    shall be deemed, for purposes of this paragraph, never to have been made.
    
          "Stock Acquisition Date" shall mean the first date of public announcement
    by the Company (by any means) that a Person has become an Acquiring Person.
    
          "Subsidiary" of any specified Person shall mean any corporation or other
    entity of which a majority of the voting power of the equity securities or a
    majority of the equity interest is Beneficially Owned, directly or indirectly,
    by such Person.
    
          "Trading Day," when used with respect to any securities, shall mean a day
    on which the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. is open for the transaction of
    business or, if such securities are not listed or admitted to trading on the New
    York Stock Exchange, Inc., a day on which the principal national securities
    exchange on which such securities are listed or admitted to trading is open for
    the transaction of business or, if such securities are not listed or admitted to
    trading on any national securities exchange, a Business Day.
    
                                       ARTICLE II
    
                                       THE RIGHTS
    
          2.1   Summary of Rights. As soon as practicable after the Record Time, the
    Company will mail a letter summarizing the terms of the Rights to each holder of
    record of Common Stock as of the Record Time, at such holder's address as shown
    by the records of the Company.
    
          2.2   Legend on Common Stock Certificates. Certificates for the Common
    Stock issued after the Record Time but prior to the Separation Time shall
    evidence one Right for each share of Common Stock represented thereby and shall
    have impressed on, printed on, written on or otherwise affixed to them the
    following legend:
    
          Until the Separation Time (as defined in the Rights Agreement referred to
    below), this certificate also evidences and entitles the holder hereof to
    certain Rights as set forth in a Rights Agreement, dated as of March 21, 2000
    (as such may be amended from time to time, the
    
    
    
    
          "Rights Agreement"), between International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. the
    "Company") and The Bank of New York, as Rights Agent, the terms of which are
    hereby incorporated herein by reference and a copy of which is on file at the
    principal executive offices of the Company. Under certain circumstances, as set
    forth in the Rights Agreement, such
    
          Rights may be redeemed, may become exercisable for securities or assets of
    the Company or securities of another entity, may be exchanged for shares of
    Common Stock or other securities or assets of the Company, may expire, may
    become void (if they are "Beneficially Owned" by an "Acquiring Person" or an
    Affiliate or Associate thereof, as such terms are defined in the Rights
    Agreement, or by any transferee of any of the foregoing) or may be evidenced by
    separate certificates and may no longer be evidenced by this certificate. The
    Company will mail or arrange for the mailing of a copy of the Rights Agreement
    to the holder of this certificate without charge after the receipt of a written
    request therefor.
    
    Certificates representing shares of Common Stock that are issued and outstanding
    at the Record Time shall evidence one Right for each share of Common Stock
    evidenced thereby notwithstanding the absence of the foregoing legend.
    
          2.3   Exercise of Rights; Separation of Rights. (a) Subject to Sections
    3.1, 5.1 and 5.10 and subject to adjustment as herein set forth, each Right will
    entitle the holder thereof, after the Separation Time and prior to the
    Expiration Time, to purchase, for the Exercise Price, one share of Common Stock.
    
          (b)   Until the Separation Time, (i) no Right may be exercised and (ii)
    each Right will be evidenced by the certificate for the associated share of
    Common Stock (together, in the case of certificates issued prior to the Record
    Time, with the letter mailed to the record holder thereof pursuant to Section
    2.1) and will be transferable only together with, and will be transferred by a
    transfer (whether with or without such letter) of, such associated share.
    
          (c)   Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, after the Separation
    Time and prior to the Expiration Time, the Rights (i) may be exercised and (ii)
    may be transferred independent of shares of Common Stock. Promptly following the
    Separation Time, and following receipt of notice of the Separation Time from the
    Company, the Rights Agent will, at the Company's expense, mail to each holder of
    record of Common Stock as of the Separation Time (other than any Person whose
    Rights have become void pursuant to Section 3.1(b)), at such holder's address as
    shown by the records of the Company (the Company hereby agreeing to furnish
    copies of such records to the Rights Agent for this purpose), (x) a certificate
    (a "Rights Certificate") in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto
    appropriately completed, representing the number of Rights held by such holder
    at the Separation Time, in a machine printable format, and having such marks of
    identification or designation and such legends, summaries or endorsements
    printed thereon as the Company may deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent
    with the provisions of this Agreement, or as may be required to comply with any
    law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or
    regulation of any national securities exchange or quotation system on which the
    Rights may from time to time be listed or traded, or to conform to usage, and
    (y) a disclosure statement describing the Rights
    
    
    
    
          (d)   Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Rights may be exercised
    on any Business Day after the Separation Time and prior to the Expiration Time
    by submitting to the Rights Agent the Rights Certificate evidencing such Rights
    with an Election to Exercise (an "Election to Exercise") substantially in the
    form attached to the Rights Certificate duly completed, accompanied by payment
    in cash, or by certified or official bank check or money order payable to the
    order of the Company, of a sum equal to the Exercise Price multiplied by the
    number of Rights being exercised and a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax
    or charge which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the
    transfer or delivery of Rights Certificates or the issuance or delivery of
    certificates for shares or depositary receipts (or both) in a name other than
    that of the holder of the Rights being exercised.
    
          (e)   Upon receipt of a Rights Certificate, with an Election to Exercise
    accompanied by payment as set forth in Section 2.3(d), and subject to the terms
    and conditions hereof, the Rights Agent will thereupon promptly (i)(A)
    requisition from a transfer agent stock certificates evidencing such number of
    shares or other securities to be purchased (the Company hereby irrevocably
    authorizing its transfer agents to comply with all such requisitions) and (B) if
    the Company elects pursuant to Section 5.5 not to issue certificates
    representing fractional shares, requisition from the depositary selected by the
    Company depositary receipts representing the fractional shares to be purchased
    or requisition from the Company the amount of cash to be paid in lieu of
    fractional shares in accordance with Section 5.5 and (ii) after receipt of such
    certificates, depositary receipts and/or cash, deliver the same to or upon the
    order of the registered holder of such Rights Certificate, registered (in the
    case of certificates or depositary receipts) in such name or names as may be
    designated by such holder.
    
          (f)   In case the holder of any Rights shall exercise less than all the
    Rights evidenced by such holder's Rights Certificate, a new Rights Certificate
    evidencing the Rights remaining unexercised will be issued by the Rights Agent
    to such holder or to such holder's duly authorized assigns.
    
          (g)   The Company covenants and agrees that it will (i) take all such
    action as may be necessary to ensure that all shares delivered upon exercise of
    Rights shall, at the time of delivery of the certificates for such shares
    (subject to payment of the Exercise Price), be duly and validly authorized,
    executed, issued and delivered and fully paid and nonassessable; (ii) take all
    such action as may be necessary to comply with any applicable requirements of
    the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations
    thereunder, and any other applicable law, rule or regulation, in connection with
    the issuance of any shares upon exercise of Rights; and (iii) pay when due and
    payable any and all federal and state transfer taxes and charges which may be
    payable in respect of the original issuance or delivery of the Rights
    Certificates or of any shares issued upon the exercise of Rights, provided, that
    the Company shall not be required to pay any transfer tax or charge which may be
    payable in respect of any transfer involved in the transfer or delivery of
    Rights Certificates or the issuance or delivery of certificates for shares in a
    name other than that of the holder of the Rights being transferred or exercised.
    
    
    
    
          2.4   Adjustments to Exercise Price; Number of Rights. (a) In the event
    the Company shall at any time after the Record Time and prior to the Separation
    Time (i) declare or pay a dividend on Common Stock payable in Common Stock, (ii)
    subdivide the outstanding Common Stock or (iii) combine the outstanding Common
    Stock into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, (x) the Exercise Price in
    effect after such adjustment will be equal to the Exercise Price in effect
    immediately prior to such adjustment divided by the number of shares of Common
    Stock (the "Expansion Factor") that a holder of one share of Common Stock
    immediately prior to such dividend, subdivision or combination would hold
    thereafter as a result thereof and (y) each Right held prior to such adjustment
    will become that number of Rights equal to the Expansion Factor, and the
    adjusted number of Rights will be deemed to be distributed among the shares of
    Common Stock with respect to which the original Rights were associated (if they
    remain outstanding) and the shares issued in respect of such dividend,
    subdivision or combination, so that each such share of Common Stock will have
    exactly one Right associated with it. Each adjustment made pursuant to this
    paragraph shall be made as of the payment or effective date for the applicable
    dividend, subdivision or combination.
    
          In the event the Company shall at any time after the Record Time and prior
    to the Separation Time issue any shares of Common Stock otherwise than in a
    transaction referred to in the preceding paragraph, each such share of Common
    Stock so issued shall automatically have one new Right associated with it, which
    Right shall be evidenced by the certificate representing such share. To the
    extent provided in Section 5.3, Rights shall be issued by the Company in respect
    of shares of Common Stock that are issued or sold by the Company after the
    Separation Time.
    
          (b)   In the event the Company shall at any time after the Record Time and
    prior to the Separation Time issue or distribute any securities or assets in
    respect of, in lieu of or in exchange for Common Stock (other than pursuant to a
    regular periodic cash dividend or a dividend paid solely in Common Stock)
    whether by dividend, in a reclassification or recapitalization (including any
    such transaction involving a merger, consolidation or share exchange), or
    otherwise, the Company shall make such adjustments, if any, in the Exercise
    Price, number of Rights and/or securities or other property purchasable upon
    exercise of Rights as the Board of Directors of the Company, in its sole
    discretion, may deem to be appropriate under the circumstances in order to
    adequately protect the interests of the holders of Rights generally, and the
    Company and the Rights Agent shall amend this Agreement as necessary to provide
    for such adjustments.
    
          (c)   Each adjustment to the Exercise Price made pursuant to this Section
    2.4 shall be calculated to the nearest cent. Whenever an adjustment to the
    Exercise Price is made pursuant to this Section 2.4, the Company shall (i)
    promptly prepare a certificate setting forth such adjustment and a brief
    statement of the facts accounting for such adjustment and (ii) promptly file
    with the Rights Agent and with each transfer agent for the Common Stock a copy
    of such certificate. The Rights Agent shall be fully protected in relying on any
    such certificate and on any adjustment therein contained and shall not be deemed
    to have knowledge of such adjustment unless and until it shall have received
    such certificate.
    
    
    
    
          (d)   Rights certificates shall represent the securities purchasable under
    the terms of this Agreement, including any adjustment or change in the
    securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights, even though such
    certificates may continue to express the securities purchasable at the time of
    issuance of the initial Rights Certificates.
    
          2.5   Date on Which Exercise is Effective. Each person in whose name any
    certificate for shares is issued upon the exercise of Rights shall for all
    purposes be deemed to have become the holder of record of the shares represented
    thereby on the date upon which the Rights Certificate evidencing such Rights was
    duly surrendered and payment of the Exercise Price for such Rights (and any
    applicable taxes and other governmental charges payable by the exercising holder
    hereunder) was made; provided, however, that if the date of such surrender and
    payment is a date upon which the stock transfer books of the Company are closed,
    such person shall be deemed to have become the record holder of such shares on,
    and such certificate shall be dated, the next succeeding Business Day on which
    the stock transfer books of the Company are open.
    
          2.6   Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating of Rights
    Certificates. (a) The Rights Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the
    Company by its Chairman of the Board, President or one of its Vice Presidents,
    under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary or one of
    its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Rights
    Certificates may be manual or facsimile.
    
          Rights Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
    individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
    the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
    hold such offices prior to the countersignature and delivery of such Rights
    Certificates.
    
          Promptly after the Company learns of the Separation Time, the Company will
    notify the Rights Agent of such Separation Time and will deliver Rights
    Certificates executed by the Company to the Rights Agent for counter signature,
    and, subject to Section 3.1(b), the Rights Agent shall manually countersign and
    deliver such Rights Certificates to the holders of the Rights pursuant to
    Section 2.3(c) hereof. No Rights Certificate shall be valid for any purpose
    unless manually countersigned by the Rights Agent.
    
          (b)   Each Rights Certificate shall be dated the date of countersignature
    thereof.
    
          2.7   Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange. (a) After the
    Separation Time, the Company will cause to be kept a register (the "Rights
    Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe,
    the Company will provide for the registration and transfer of Rights. The Rights
    Agent is hereby appointed "Rights Registrar" for the purpose of maintaining the
    Rights Register for the Company and registering Rights and transfers of Rights
    after the Separation Time as herein provided. In the event that the Rights Agent
    shall cease to be the Rights Registrar, the Rights Agent will have the right to
    examine the Rights Register at all reasonable times after the Separation Time.
    
    
    
    
          After the Separation Time and prior to the Expiration Time, upon surrender
    for registration of transfer or exchange of any Rights Certificate, and subject
    to the provisions of Section 2.7(c) and (d), the Company will execute, and the
    Rights Agent will countersign and deliver, in the name of the holder or the
    designated transferee or transferees, as required pursuant to the holder's
    instructions, one or more new Rights Certificates evidencing the same aggregate
    number of Rights as did the Rights Certificate so surrendered.
    
          (b)   Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.1(b), all Rights issued
    upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Rights Certificates shall be
    the valid obligations of the Company, and such Rights shall be entitled to the
    same benefits under this Agreement as the Rights surrendered upon such
    registration of transfer or exchange.
    
          (c)   Every Rights Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or
    exchange shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
    transfer in form satisfactory to the Company or the Rights Agent, as the case
    may be, duly executed by the holder thereof or such holder's attorney duly
    authorized in writing. As a condition to the issuance of any new Rights
    Certificate under this Section 2.7, the Company may require the payment by the
    holders of Rights of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
    charge that may be imposed in relation thereto.
    
          (d)   The Company shall not be required to register the transfer or
    exchange of any Rights after such Rights have become void under Section 3.1(b),
    been exchanged under Section 3.1(c) or been redeemed under Section 5.1.
    
          2.8   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Rights Certificates. (a) If
    any mutilated Rights Certificate is surrendered to the Rights Agent prior to the
    Expiration Time, then, subject to Sections 3.1(b), 3.1(c) and 5.1, the Company
    shall execute and the Rights Agent shall countersign and deliver in exchange
    therefor a new Rights Certificate evidencing the same number of Rights as did
    the Rights Certificate so surrendered.
    
          (b)   If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Rights Agent
    prior to the Expiration Time (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the
    destruction, loss or theft of any Rights Certificate and (ii) such security or
    indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any of their
    agents harmless, then, subject to Sections 3.1(b), 3.1(c) and 5.1 and in the
    absence of notice to the Company or the Rights Agent that such Rights
    Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall
    execute and upon its request the Rights Agent shall countersign and deliver, in
    lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Rights Certificate, a new Rights
    Certificate evidencing the same number of Rights as did the Rights Certificate
    so destroyed, lost or stolen.
    
          (c)   As a condition to the issuance of any new Rights Certificate under
    this Section 2.8, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to
    cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
    thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Rights
    Agent) connected therewith.
    
    
    
    
          (d)   Every new Rights Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 2.8 in
    lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Rights Certificate shall evidence an
    original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the
    destroyed, lost or stolen Rights Certificate shall be at any time enforceable by
    anyone, and, subject to Section 3.1(b) shall be entitled to all the benefits of
    this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Rights duly
    issued hereunder.
    
          2.9   Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment of a Rights
    Certificate (or, prior to the Separation Time, the associated Common Stock
    certificate) for registration of transfer, the Company, the Rights Agent and any
    agent of the Company or the Rights Agent may deem and treat the person in whose
    name such Rights Certificate (or, prior to the Separation Time, such Common
    Stock certificate) is registered as the absolute owner thereof and of the Rights
    evidenced thereby for all purposes whatsoever, including the payment of the
    Redemption Price and neither the Company nor the Rights Agent shall be affected
    by any notice to the contrary. As used in this Agreement, unless the context
    otherwise requires, the term "holder" of any Rights shall mean the registered
    holder of such Rights (or, prior to the Separation Time, the associated shares
    of Common Stock).
    
          2.10  Delivery and Cancellation of Certificates. All Rights Certificates
    surrendered upon exercise or for registration of transfer or exchange shall, if
    surrendered to any person other than the Rights Agent, be delivered to the
    Rights Agent and, in any case, shall be promptly cancelled by the Rights Agent.
    The Company may at any time deliver to the Rights Agent for cancellation any
    Rights Certificates previously countersigned and delivered hereunder which the
    Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Rights Certificates
    so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Rights Agent. No Rights
    Certificates shall be countersigned in lieu of or in exchange for any Rights
    Certificates cancelled as provided in this Section 2.10, except as expressly
    permitted by this Agreement. The Rights Agent may, but shall not be required to,
    destroy all cancelled Rights Certificates and deliver a certificate of
    destruction to the Company.
    
          2.11  Agreement of Rights Holders. Every holder of Rights by accepting the
    same consents and agrees with the Company and the Rights Agent and with every
    other holder of Rights that:
    
          (a)   prior to the Separation Time, each Right will be transferable only
    together with, and will be transferred by a transfer of, the associated share of
    Common Stock;
    
          (b)   after the Separation Time, the Rights Certificates will be
    transferable only on the Rights Register as provided herein;
    
          (c)   prior to due presentment of a Rights Certificate (or, prior to the
    Separation Time, the associated Common Stock certificate) for registration of
    transfer, the Company, the Rights Agent and any agent of the Company or the
    Rights Agent may deem and treat the person in whose name the Rights Certificate
    (or, prior to the Separation Time, the associated Common Stock certificate) is
    registered as the absolute owner thereof and of the Rights evidenced thereby for
    all purposes whatsoever, and neither the Company nor the Rights Agent shall be
    affected by any notice to the contrary;
    
    
    
    
          (d)   Rights beneficially owned by certain Persons will, under the
    circumstances set forth in Section 3.1(b), become void; and
    
          (e)   this Agreement may be supplemented or amended from time to time
    pursuant to Section 2.4(b) or 5.4 hereof.
    
                                       ARTICLE III
    
                              ADJUSTMENTS TO THE RIGHTS IN
                            THE EVENT OF CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS
    
          3.1   Flip-in. (a) In the event that prior to the Expiration Time a
    Flip-in Date shall occur, except as provided in this Section 3.1, each Right
    shall constitute the right to purchase from the Company, upon exercise thereof
    in accordance with the terms hereof (but subject to Section 5.10), that number
    of shares of Common Stock having an aggregate Market Price on the Stock
    Acquisition Date equal to twice the Exercise Price for an amount in cash equal
    to the Exercise Price (such right to be appropriately adjusted in order to
    protect the interests of the holders of Rights generally in the event that on or
    after such Stock Acquisition Date an event of a type analogous to any of the
    events described in Section 2.4(a) or (b) shall have occurred with respect to
    the Common Stock).
    
          (b)   Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Rights that are or were
    Beneficially Owned on or after the Stock Acquisition Date by an Acquiring Person
    or an Affiliate or Associate thereof or by any transferee, direct or indirect,
    of any of the foregoing shall become void and any holder of such Rights
    (including transferees) shall thereafter have no right to exercise or transfer
    such Rights under any provision of this Agreement. If any Rights Certificate is
    presented for assignment or exercise and the Person presenting the same will not
    complete the certification set forth at the end of the form of assignment or
    notice of election to exercise and provide such additional evidence of the
    identity of the Beneficial Owner and its Affiliates and Associates (or former
    Beneficial Owners and their Affiliates and Associates) as the Company shall
    reasonably request, then the Company shall be entitled conclusively to deem the
    Beneficial Owner thereof to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate
    thereof or a transferee of any of the foregoing and accordingly will deem the
    Rights evidenced thereby to be void and not transferable or exercisable.
    
          (c)   The Board of Directors of the Company may, at its option, at any
    time after a Flip-in Date and prior to the time that an Acquiring Person becomes
    the Beneficial Owner of more than 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
    elect to exchange all (but not less than all) the then outstanding Rights (which
    shall not include Rights that have become void pursuant to the provisions of
    Section 3.1(b)) for shares of Common Stock at an exchange ratio of one share of
    Common Stock per Right, appropriately adjusted in order to protect the interests
    of holders of Rights generally in the event that after the Separation Time an
    event of a type analogous to any of the events described in Section 2.4(a) or
    (b) shall have occurred with respect to the Common Stock (such exchange ratio,
    as adjusted from time to time, being hereinafter referred to as the "Exchange
    Ratio").
    
    
    
    
          Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors of the Company
    electing to exchange the Rights, without any further action and without any
    notice, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and each Right (other
    than Rights that have become void pursuant to Section 3.1(b)) will thereafter
    represent only the right to receive a number of shares of Common Stock equal to
    the Exchange Ratio. Promptly after the action of the Board of Directors electing
    to exchange the Rights, the Company shall give notice thereof (specifying the
    steps to be taken to receive shares of Common Stock in exchange for Rights) to
    the Rights Agent and the holders of the Rights (other than Rights that have
    become void pursuant to Section 3.1(b)) outstanding immediately prior thereto by
    mailing such notice in accordance with Section 5.9.
    
          Each Person in whose name any certificate for shares is issued upon the
    exchange of Rights pursuant to this Section 3.1(c) shall for all purposes be
    deemed to have become the holder of record of the shares represented thereby on,
    and such certificate shall be dated, the date upon which the Rights Certificate
    evidencing such Rights was duly surrendered and payment of any applicable taxes
    and other governmental charges payable by the holder was made; provided,
    however, that if the date of such surrender and payment is a date upon which the
    stock transfer books of the Company are closed, such Person shall be deemed to
    have become the record holder of such shares on, and such certificate shall be
    dated, the next succeeding Business Day on which the stock transfer books of the
    Company are open.
    
          (d)   In the event that there shall not be sufficient treasury shares or
    authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock of the Company to permit the
    exercise or exchange in full of the Rights in accordance with Section 3.1(a) or
    (c), and the Company elects not to, or is otherwise unable to, make the exchange
    referred to in Section 3.1(c), the Company shall either (i) call a meeting of
    shareholders seeking approval to cause sufficient additional shares to be
    authorized (provided that if such approval is not obtained the Company will take
    the action specified in clause (ii) of this sentence) or (ii) take such action
    as shall be necessary to ensure and provide, to the extent permitted by
    applicable law and any agreements or instruments in effect on the Stock
    Acquisition Date to which it is a party, that each Right shall thereafter
    constitute the right to receive, (x) at the Company's option, either (A) in
    return for the Exercise Price, debt or equity securities or other assets (or a
    combination thereof) having a fair value equal to twice the Exercise Price, or
    (B) without payment of consideration (except as otherwise required by applicable
    law), debt or equity securities or other assets (or a combination thereof)
    having a fair value equal to the Exercise Price, or (y) if the Board of
    Directors of the Company elects to exchange the Rights in accordance with
    Section 3.1(c), debt or equity securities or other assets (or a combination
    thereof) having a fair value equal to the product of the Market Price of a share
    of Common Stock on the Flip-in Date times the Exchange Ratio in effect on the
    Flip-in Date, where in any case set forth in (x) or (y) above the fair value of
    such debt or equity securities or other assets shall be as determined in good
    faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, after consultation with a
    nationally recognized investment banking firm.
    
          3.2   Flip-over. (a) Prior to the Expiration Time, the Company shall not
    enter into any agreement with respect to, consummate or permit to occur any
    Flip-over Transaction or Event unless and until it shall
    
    
    
    
    have entered into a supplemental agreement with the Flip-over Entity, for the
    benefit of the holders of the Rights, providing that, upon consummation or
    occurrence of the Flip-over Transaction or Event (i) each Right shall thereafter
    constitute the right to purchase from the Flip-over Entity, upon exercise
    thereof in accordance with the terms hereof, that number of shares of Flip-over
    Stock of the Flip-over Entity having an aggregate Market Price on the date of
    consummation or occurrence of such Flip-over Transaction or Event equal to twice
    the Exercise Price for an amount in cash equal to the Exercise Price (such right
    to be appropriately adjusted in order to protect the interests of the holders of
    Rights generally in the event that after such date of consummation or occurrence
    an event of a type analogous to any of the events described in Section 2.4(a) or
    (b) shall have occurred with respect to the Flip-over Stock) and (ii) the
    Flip-over Entity shall thereafter be liable for, and shall assume, by virtue of
    such Flip-over Transaction or Event and such supplemental agreement, all the
    obligations and duties of the Company pursuant to this Agreement. The provisions
    of this Section 3.2 shall apply to successive Flip-over Transactions or Events.
    
          (b)   Prior to the Expiration Time, unless the Rights will be redeemed
    pursuant to Section 5.1 hereof in connection therewith, the Company shall not
    enter into any agreement with respect to, consummate or permit to occur any
    Flip-over Transaction or Event if at the time thereof there are any rights,
    warrants or securities outstanding or any other arrangements, agreements or
    instruments that would eliminate or otherwise diminish in any material respect
    the benefits intended to be afforded by this Rights Agreement to the holders of
    Rights upon consummation of such transaction.
    
                                       ARTICLE IV
    
                                    THE RIGHTS AGENT
    
          4.1   General. (a) The Company hereby appoints the Rights Agent to act as
    agent for the Company in accordance with the specific terms and conditions
    hereof and the Rights Agent hereby accepts such appointment. The Company agrees
    to pay to the Rights Agent such compensation as agreed to in writing between the
    Company and the Rights Agent for all services rendered by it hereunder and, from
    time to time, on demand of the Rights Agent, its reasonable out-of-pocket
    expenses, reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel and other disbursements
    incurred in the administration and execution of this Agreement and the exercise
    and performance of its duties hereunder. The Company also agrees to indemnify
    the Rights Agent for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, damage, claim,
    liability, or expense, incurred without gross negligence, bad faith or willful
    misconduct on the part of the Rights Agent, for anything done or omitted to be
    done by the Rights Agent in connection with the acceptance and administration of
    this Agreement, including the costs and expenses of defending against any claim
    (whether asserted by the Company, a holder of Rights or any other Person) of
    liability. The Company's obligation under this Section 4.1(a) shall survive for
    a period of three (3) years after termination of this Agreement.
    
          (b)   The Rights Agent shall be protected and shall incur no liability for
    or in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it in connection with
    its administration of this Agreement in reliance
    
    
    
    
    upon any certificate for securities purchasable upon exercise of Rights, Rights
    Certificate, certificate for other securities of the Company, instrument of
    assignment or transfer, power of attorney, endorsement, affidavit, letter,
    notice, instruction, direction, consent, certificate, statement, or other paper
    or document believed by it to be genuine and to be signed and executed by the
    proper person or persons and, where necessary, verified or acknowledged.
    
          4.2   Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent. (a) Any
    corporation into which the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent may be
    merged or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from
    any merger or consolidation to which the Rights Agent or any successor Rights
    Agent is a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the
    shareholder services business of the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent,
    will be the successor to the Rights Agent under this Agreement without the
    execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the
    parties hereto, provided that such corporation would be eligible for appointment
    as a successor Rights Agent under the provisions of Section 4.4 hereof. In case
    at the time such successor Rights Agent succeeds to the agency created by this
    Agreement any of the Rights Certificates have been countersigned but not
    delivered, any such successor Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature of the
    predecessor Rights Agent and deliver such Rights Certificates so countersigned;
    and in case at that time any of the Rights Certificates have not been
    countersigned, any successor Rights Agent may countersign such Rights
    Certificates either in the name of the predecessor Rights Agent or in the name
    of the successor Rights Agent; and in all such cases such Rights Certificates
    will have the full force provided in the Rights Certificates and in this
    Agreement.
    
          (b)   In case at any time the name of the Rights Agent is changed and at
    such time any of the Rights Certificates shall have been countersigned but not
    delivered, the Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature under its prior name
    and deliver Rights Certificates so countersigned; and in case at that time any
    of the Rights Certificates shall not have been countersigned, the Rights Agent
    may countersign such Rights Certificates either in its prior name or in its
    changed name; and in all such cases such Rights Certificates shall have the full
    force provided in the Rights Certificates and in this Agreement.
    
          4.3   Duties of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent undertakes the duties and
    obligations imposed by this Agreement upon the following terms and conditions,
    by all of which the Company and the holders of Rights Certificates, by their
    acceptance thereof, shall be bound:
    
          (a)   The Rights Agent may consult with legal counsel of its selection
    (who may be legal counsel for the Company), and the opinion of such counsel will
    be full and complete authorization and protection to the Rights Agent as to any
    action taken or omitted by it in good faith and in accordance with such opinion.
    
          (b)   Whenever in the performance of its duties under this Agreement the
    Rights Agent deems it necessary or desirable that any fact or matter be proved
    or established by the Company prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder,
    such fact or matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein
    specifically prescribed) may be
    
    
    
    
    deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a certificate signed by a
    person believed by the Rights Agent to be the Chairman of the Board, the
    President or any Vice President and by the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer
    or the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the
    Rights Agent; and such certificate will be full authorization to the Rights
    Agent for any action taken or suffered in good faith by it under the provisions
    of this Agreement in reliance upon such certificate.
    
          (c)   The Rights Agent will be liable hereunder only for its own gross
    negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct.
    
          (d)   The Rights Agent will not be liable for or by reason of any of the
    statements of fact or recitals contained in this Agreement or in the
    certificates for securities purchasable upon exercise of Rights or the Rights
    Certificates (except its countersignature thereof) or be required to verify the
    same, but all such statements and recitals are and will be deemed to have been
    made by the Company only.
    
          (e)   The Rights Agent will not be under any responsibility in respect of
    the validity of this Agreement or the execution and delivery hereof (except the
    due authorization, execution and delivery hereof by the Rights Agent) or in
    respect of the validity or execution of any certificate for securities
    purchasable upon exercise of Rights or Rights Certificate (except its
    countersignature thereof); nor will it be responsible for any breach by the
    Company of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or in any
    Rights Certificate; nor will it be responsible for any change in the
    exercisability of the Rights (including the Rights becoming void pursuant to
    Section 3.1(b) hereof) or any adjustment required under the provisions of
    Section 2.4, 3.1 or 3.2 hereof or responsible for the manner, method or amount
    of any such adjustment or the ascertaining of the existence of facts that would
    require any such adjustment (except with respect to the exercise of Rights after
    the Rights Agent's actual receipt of the certificate contemplated by Section 2.4
    describing any such adjustment); nor will it by any act hereunder be deemed to
    make any representation or warranty as to the authorization or reservation of
    any securities purchasable upon exercise of Rights or any Rights or as to
    whether any securities purchasable upon exercise of Rights will, when issued, be
    duly and validly authorized, executed, issued and delivered and fully paid and
    nonassessable.
    
          (f)   The Company agrees that it will perform, execute, acknowledge and
    deliver or cause to be performed, executed, acknowledged and delivered all such
    further and other acts, instruments and assurances as may reasonably be required
    by the Rights Agent for the carrying out or performing by the Rights Agent of
    the provisions of this Agreement.
    
          (g)   The Rights Agent is hereby authorized and directed to accept
    instructions with respect to the performance of its duties hereunder from any
    person believed by the Rights Agent to be the Chairman of the Board, the
    President or any Vice President or the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary or
    the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company, and to apply to such
    persons for advice or instructions in connection with its duties, and it shall
    not be liable for any action taken or suffered by it in good faith in accordance
    with instructions of any such person. Any application by the Rights Agent for
    written instructions from the
    
    
    
    
    Company may, at the option of the Rights Agent, set forth in writing any action
    proposed to be taken or omitted by the Rights Agent under this Agreement and the
    date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be
    effective. The Rights Agent shall not be liable for any action taken by, or
    omission of, the Rights Agent in accordance with a proposal included in such
    application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall
    not be less than five Business Days after the date any officer of the Company
    actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have consented
    in writing to any earlier date) unless prior to taking any such action (or the
    effective date in the case of an omission), the Rights Agent shall have received
    written instructions in response to such application specifying the action to be
    taken or omitted.
    
          (h)   The Rights Agent and any shareholder, director, officer or employee
    of the Rights Agent may buy, sell or deal in Common Stock, Rights or other
    securities of the Company or become pecuniarily interested in any transaction in
    which the Company may be interested, or contract with or lend money to the
    Company or otherwise act as fully and freely as though it were not Rights Agent
    under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall preclude the Rights Agent from acting
    in any other capacity for the Company or for any other legal entity.
    
          (i)   The Rights Agent may execute and exercise any of the rights or
    powers hereby vested in it or perform any duty hereunder either itself or by or
    through its attorneys or agents, and the Rights Agent will not be answerable or
    accountable for any act, default, neglect or misconduct of any such attorneys or
    agents or for any loss to the Company resulting from any such act, default,
    neglect or misconduct, provided reasonable care was exercised in the selection
    and continued employment thereof.
    
          (j)   No provision of this Agreement shall require the Rights Agent to
    expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
    performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of its rights if
    there shall be reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
    adequate indemnification against such risk or liability is not reasonably
    assured to it.
    
          (k)   If, with respect to any Rights Certificate surrendered to the Rights
    Agent for exercise or transfer, the certificate attached to the Form of
    Assignment or Form of Election to Exercise included as part of Exhibit A hereto,
    as the case may be, has not been executed, the Rights Agent shall not take any
    further action with respect to such requested transfer or exercise without first
    consulting with the Company.
    
          (l)   In addition to the foregoing, the Rights Agent shall be protected
    and shall incur no liability for, or in respect of, any action taken or omitted
    by it in connection with its administration of this Agreement if such acts or
    omissions are in reliance upon (i) the proper execution of the certification
    concerning beneficial ownership appended to the Form of Assignment and the Form
    of Election to Exercise unless the Rights Agent shall have actual knowledge
    that, as executed, such certification is untrue, or (ii) the non-execution of
    such certification including, without limitation, any refusal to honor any
    otherwise permissible assignment or election by reason of such non-execution.
    
    
    
    
          (m)   The Company agrees to give the Rights Agent prompt written notice of
    any event or ownership which would prohibit the exercise or transfer of the
    Rights Certificates.
    
          4.4   Change of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent may resign and be
    discharged from its duties under this Agreement upon 60 days' notice (or such
    lesser notice as is acceptable to the Company) in writing mailed to the Company
    and, at the Company's expense, to each transfer agent of Common Stock by
    registered or certified mail, and to the holders of the Rights in accordance
    with Section 5.9. The Company may remove the Rights Agent upon 30 days' notice
    in writing, mailed to the Rights Agent and to each transfer agent of the Common
    Stock by registered or certified mail, and to the holders of the Rights in
    accordance with Section 5.9. If the Rights Agent should resign or be removed or
    otherwise become incapable of acting, the Company will appoint a successor to
    the Rights Agent. If the Company fails to make such appointment within a period
    of 30 days after such removal or after it has been notified in writing of such
    resignation or incapacity by the resigning or incapacitated Rights Agent or by
    the holder of any Rights (which holder shall, with such notice, submit such
    holder's Rights Certificate for inspection by the Company), then the holder of
    any Rights may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment
    of a new Rights Agent. Any successor Rights Agent, whether appointed by the
    Company or by such a court, shall be a corporation organized and doing business
    under the laws of the United States or any state of the United States, in good
    standing, which is authorized under such laws to exercise the powers of the
    Rights Agent contemplated by this Agreement and is subject to supervision or
    examination by federal or state authority and which has at the time of its
    appointment as Rights Agent a combined capital and surplus of at least
    $50,000,000. After appointment, the successor Rights Agent will be vested with
    the same powers, rights, duties and responsibilities as if it had been
    originally named as Rights Agent without further act or deed; but the
    predecessor Rights Agent shall deliver and transfer to the successor Rights
    Agent any property at the time held by it hereunder, and execute and deliver any
    further assurance, conveyance, act or deed necessary for the purpose. Not later
    than the effective date of any such appointment, the Company will file notice
    thereof in writing with the predecessor Rights Agent and each transfer agent of
    the Common Stock, and mail a notice thereof in writing to the holders of the
    Rights. Failure to give any notice provided for in this Section 4.4, however, or
    any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of the resignation
    or removal of the Rights Agent or the appointment of the successor Rights Agent,
    as the case may be.
    
                                        ARTICLE V
    
                                      MISCELLANEOUS
    
          5.1   Redemption (a) The Board of Directors of the Company may, at its
    option, at any time prior to the close of business on the Flip-in Date, elect to
    redeem all (but not less than all) the then outstanding Rights at the Redemption
    Price and the Company, at its option, may pay the Redemption Price either in
    cash or shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company deemed by the
    Board of Directors, in the exercise of its sole discretion, to be at least
    equivalent in value to the Redemption Price.
    
    
    
    
          (b)   Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors of the Company
    electing to redeem the Rights (or, if the resolution of the Board of Directors
    electing to redeem the Rights states that the redemption will not be effective
    until the occurrence of a specified future time or event, upon the occurrence of
    such future time or event), without any further action and without any notice,
    the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and each Right will thereafter
    represent only the right to receive the Redemption Price in cash or securities,
    as determined by the Board of Directors. Promptly after the Rights are redeemed,
    the Company shall give notice of such redemption to the Rights Agent and the
    holders of the then outstanding Rights by mailing such notice in accordance with
    Section 5.9.
    
          5.2   Expiration. The Rights and this Agreement shall expire at the
    Expiration Time and no Person shall have any rights pursuant to this Agreement
    or any Right after the Expiration Time, except, if the Rights are exchanged or
    redeemed, as provided in Section 3.1 or 5.1 hereof, respectively.
    
          5.3   Issuance of New Rights Certificates. Notwithstanding any of the
    provisions of this Agreement or of the Rights to the contrary, the Company may,
    at its option, issue new Rights Certificates evidencing Rights in such form as
    may be approved by its Board of Directors to reflect any adjustment or change in
    the number or kind or class of shares of stock purchasable upon exercise of
    Rights made in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. In addition, in
    connection with the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock by the Company
    following the Separation Time and prior to the Expiration Time pursuant to the
    terms of securities convertible or redeemable into shares of Common Stock or to
    options, in each case issued or granted prior to, and outstanding at, the
    Separation Time, the Company shall issue to the holders of such shares of Common
    Stock, Rights Certificates representing the appropriate number of Rights in
    connection with the issuance or sale of such shares of Common Stock; provided,
    however, in each case, (i) no such Rights Certificate shall be issued, if, and
    to the extent that, the Company shall be advised by counsel that such issuance
    would create a significant risk of material adverse tax consequences to the
    Company or to the Person to whom such Rights Certificates would be issued, (ii)
    no such Rights Certificates shall be issued if, and to the extent that,
    appropriate adjustment shall have otherwise been made in lieu of the issuance
    thereof, and (iii) the Company shall have no obligation to distribute Rights
    Certificates to any Acquiring Person or Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring
    Person or any transferee of any of the foregoing.
    
          5.4   Supplements and Amendments. The Company and the Rights Agent may
    from time to time supplement or amend this Agreement without the approval of any
    holders of Rights (i) prior to the close of business on the Flip-in Date, in any
    respect (including terminating the Rights without the payment of any Redemption
    Price) and (ii) after the close of business on the Flip-in Date, to make any
    changes that the Company may deem necessary or desirable and which shall not
    materially adversely affect the interests of the holders of Rights generally or
    in order to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision
    contained herein which may be inconsistent with any other provisions herein or
    otherwise defective. The Rights Agent will duly execute and deliver any
    supplement or amendment hereto requested by the Company which satisfies
    
    
    
    
    the terms of the preceding sentence. Upon the delivery of a certificate from an
    appropriate officer of the Company which states that the proposed supplement or
    amendment is in compliance with the terms of this Section 5.4, the Rights Agent
    shall execute such supplement or amendment. Notwithstanding any other provision
    hereof, the Rights Agent's consent must be obtained regarding any amendment or
    supplement pursuant to this Section 5.4 which alters the Rights Agent's rights
    or duties.
    
          5.5   Fractional Shares. If the Company elects not to issue certificates
    representing fractional shares upon exercise or redemption of Rights, the
    Company shall, in lieu thereof, in the sole discretion of the Board of
    Directors, either (a) evidence such fractional shares by depositary receipts
    issued pursuant to an appropriate agreement between the Company and a depositary
    selected by it, providing that each holder of a depositary receipt shall have
    all of the rights, privileges and preferences to which such holder would be
    entitled as a beneficial owner of such fractional share, or (b) pay to the
    registered holder of such Rights the appropriate fraction of the Market Price
    per share in cash.
    
          5.6   Rights of Action. Subject to the terms of this Agreement (including
    Sections 3.1(b) and 5.14), rights of action in respect of this Agreement, other
    than rights of action vested solely in the Rights Agent, are vested in the
    respective holders of the Rights; and any holder of any Rights, without the
    consent of the Rights Agent or of the holder of any other Rights, may, on such
    holder's own behalf and for such holder's own benefit and the benefit of other
    holders of Rights, enforce, and may institute and maintain any suit, action or
    proceeding against the Company to enforce, or otherwise act in respect of, such
    holder's right to exercise such holder's Rights in the manner provided in such
    holder's Rights Certificate and in this Agreement. Without limiting the
    foregoing or any remedies available to the holders of Rights, it is specifically
    acknowledged that the holders of Rights would not have an adequate remedy at law
    for any breach of this Agreement and will be entitled to specific performance of
    the obligations under, and injunctive relief against actual or threatened
    violations of, the obligations of any Person subject to this Agreement.
    
          5.7   Holder of Rights Not Deemed a Shareholder. No holder, as such, of
    any Rights shall be entitled to vote, receive dividends or be deemed for any
    purpose the holder of shares or any other securities which may at any time be
    issuable on the exercise of such Rights, nor shall anything contained herein or
    in any Rights Certificate be construed to confer upon the holder of any Rights,
    as such, any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company or any right to vote
    for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to shareholders at
    any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any corporate action, or
    to receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting shareholders (except as
    provided in Section 5.8 hereof), or to receive dividends or subscription rights,
    or otherwise, until such Rights shall have been exercised or exchanged in
    accordance with the provisions hereof.
    
          5.8   Notice of Proposed Actions. In case the Company shall propose after
    the Separation Time and prior to the Expiration Time (i) to effect or permit a
    Flip-over Transaction or Event or (ii) to effect the liquidation, dissolution or
    winding up of the Company, then, in each such case, the Company shall give to
    each holder of a Right, in accordance with Section 5.9 hereof, a notice of such
    proposed action, which shall
    
    
    
    
    specify the date on which such Flip-over Transaction or Event, liquidation,
    dissolution, or winding up is to take place, and such notice shall be so given
    at least 20 Business Days prior to the date of the taking of such proposed
    action.
    
          5.9   Notices. Notices or demands authorized or required by this Agreement
    to be given or made by the Rights Agent or by the holder of any Rights to or on
    the Company shall be sufficiently given or made if delivered or sent by
    first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in
    writing with the Rights Agent) as follows:
    
                                            International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
                                            521 West 57th St.
                                            New York, NY  10019
    
                                            Attention:  Corporate Secretary
    
    Any notice or demand authorized or required by this Agreement to be given or
    made by the Company or by the holder of any Rights to or on the Rights Agent
    shall be sufficiently given or made if delivered or sent by first-class mail,
    postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing with the
    Company) as follows:
    
                                            The Bank of New York
                                            101 Barclay Street, Floor 12 West
                                            New York, New York  10286
    
                                            Attention: Stock Transfer Administration
    
    Notices or demands authorized or required by this Agreement to be given or made
    by the Company or the Rights Agent to or on the holder of any Rights shall be
    sufficiently given or made if delivered or sent by first-class mail, postage
    prepaid, addressed to such holder at the address of such holder as it appears
    upon the registry books of the Rights Agent or, prior to the Separation Time, on
    the registry books of the transfer agent for the Common Stock. Any notice which
    is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be deemed given, whether or not
    the holder receives the notice.
    
          5.10  Suspension of Exercisability. To the extent that the Company
    determines in good faith that some action will or need be taken pursuant to
    Section 3.1 or to comply with federal or state securities laws, the Company may
    suspend the exercisability of the Rights for a reasonable period in order to
    take such action or comply with such laws. In the event of any such suspension,
    the Company shall issue as promptly as practicable a public announcement stating
    that the exercisability or exchangeability of the Rights has been temporarily
    suspended. Notice thereof pursuant to Section 5.9 shall not be required.
    
          Failure to give a notice pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement
    shall not affect the validity of any action taken hereunder.
    
          5.11  Costs of Enforcement. The Company agrees that if the Company or any
    other Person the securities of which are purchasable upon exercise of Rights
    fails to fulfill any of its obligations pursuant to this Agreement, then the
    Company or such Person will reimburse the holder
    
    
    
    
    of any Rights for the costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by such
    holder in actions to enforce such holder's rights pursuant to any Rights or this
    Agreement.
    
          5.12  Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or
    for the benefit of the Company or the Rights Agent shall bind and inure to the
    benefit of their respective successors and assigns hereunder.
    
          5.13  Benefits of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be
    construed to give to any Person other than the Company, the Rights Agent and the
    holders of the Rights any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
    Agreement and this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the
    Company, the Rights Agent and the holders of the Rights.
    
          5.14  Determination and Actions by the Board of Directors, etc. The Board
    of Directors of the Company shall have the exclusive power and authority to
    administer this Agreement and to exercise all rights and powers specifically
    granted to the Board or to the Company, or as may be necessary or advisable in
    the administration of this Agreement, including, without limitation, the right
    and power to (i) interpret the provisions of this Agreement and (ii) make all
    determinations deemed necessary or advisable for the administration of this
    Agreement. All such actions, calculations, interpretations and determinations
    (including, for purposes of clause (y) below, all omissions with respect to the
    foregoing) which are done or made by the Board in good faith, shall (x) be
    final, conclusive and binding on the Company, the Rights Agent, the holders of
    the Rights and all other parties, and (y) not subject the Board of Directors of
    the Company to any liability to the holders of the Rights.
    
          5.15  Descriptive Headings. Descriptive headings appear herein for
    convenience only and shall not control or affect the meaning or construction of
    any of the provisions hereof.
    
          5.16  Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH RIGHT ISSUED HEREUNDER SHALL
    BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACT MADE UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND FOR
    ALL PURPOSES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF
    SUCH STATE APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS TO BE MADE AND PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN SUCH
    STATE.
    
          5.17  Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
    counterparts and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to
    be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and
    the same instrument.
    
          5.18  Severability. If any term or provision hereof or the application
    thereof to any circumstance shall, in any jurisdiction and to any extent, be
    invalid or unenforceable, such term or provision shall be ineffective as to such
    jurisdiction to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability without
    invalidating or rendering unenforceable the remaining terms and provisions
    hereof or the application of such term or provision to circumstances other than
    those as to which it is held invalid or unenforceable.
    
    
    
    
    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly
    executed as of the date first above written.
    
                                           INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
    
                                           By: /s/ Douglas J. Wetmore
                                              --------------------------------
                                              Name:  Douglas J. Wetmore
                                              Title: Vice President and Chief
                                                     Financial Officer
    
                                           THE BANK OF NEW YORK
                                            As Rights Agent
    
                                           By: /s/ John I. Sivertsen
                                              -------------------------------
                                              Name:  John I. Sivertsen
                                              Title: Vice President
    
    
    
    
    EXHIBIT A
    
                              [Form of Rights Certificate]
    
    Certificate No. W-                                                      _______
    Rights
    
          THE RIGHTS ARE SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION OR MANDATORY EXCHANGE, AT THE OPTION
    OF THE COMPANY, ON THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT. RIGHTS
    BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY ACQUIRING PERSONS OR AFFILIATES OR ASSOCIATES THEREOF (AS
    SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT) OR TRANSFEREES OF ANY OF THE
    FOREGOING WILL BE VOID.
    
                                   Rights Certificate
    
                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
          This certifies that ____________________, or registered assigns, is the
    registered holder of the number of Rights set forth above, each of which
    entitles the registered holder thereof, subject to the terms, provisions and
    conditions of the Shareholder Protection Rights Agreement, dated as of March 21,
    2000 (as amended from time to time, the "Rights Agreement"), between
    International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., a New York corporation (the "Company"),
    and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Rights Agent (the
    "Rights Agent", which term shall include any successor Rights Agent under the
    Rights Agreement), to purchase from the Company at any time after the Separation
    Time (as such term is defined in the Rights Agreement) and prior to the close of
    
    
    
    
    business on March 24, 2010, one fully paid share of Common Stock, par value
    $0.12 1/2 per share (the "Common Stock"), of the Company (subject to adjustment
    as provided in the Rights Agreement) at the Exercise Price referred to below,
    upon presentation and surrender of this Rights Certificate with the Form of
    Election to Exercise duly executed at the principal office of the Rights Agent
    in The City of New York. The Exercise Price shall initially be $200.00 per Right
    and shall be subject to adjustment in certain events as provided in the Rights
    Agreement.
    
          In certain circumstances described in the Rights Agreement, the Rights
    evidenced hereby may entitle the registered holder thereof to purchase
    securities of an entity other than the Company or securities of the Company
    other than Common Stock or assets of the Company, all as provided in the Rights
    Agreement.
    
          This Rights Certificate is subject to all of the terms, provisions and
    conditions of the Rights Agreement, which terms, provisions and conditions are
    hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof and to which
    Rights Agreement reference is hereby made for a full description of the rights,
    limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities hereunder of the
    Rights Agent, the Company and the holders of the Rights Certificates. Copies of
    the Rights Agreement are on file at the principal office of the Company and are
    available without cost upon written request.
    
          This Rights Certificate, with or without other Rights Certificates, upon
    surrender at the office of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose, may be
    exchanged for another Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates of like tenor
    evidencing an aggregate number of Rights equal to the aggregate number of Rights
    evidenced by the Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates surrendered. If this
    Rights Certificate shall be exercised in part, the registered holder shall be
    entitled to receive, upon surrender hereof, another Rights Certificate or Rights
    Certifi cates for the number of whole Rights not exercised.
    
          Subject to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, each Right evidenced by
    this Certificate may be (a) redeemed by the Company under certain circumstances,
    at its option, at a redemption price of $0.01 per Right or (b) exchanged by the
    Company under certain circumstances, at its option, for one share of Common
    Stock per Right (or, in certain cases, other securities or assets of the
    Company), subject in each case to adjustment in certain events as provided in
    the Rights Agreement.
    
          No holder of this Rights Certificate, as such, shall be entitled to vote
    or receive dividends or be deemed for any purpose the holder of any securities
    which may at any time be issuable on the exercise hereof, nor shall anything
    contained in the Rights Agreement or herein be construed to confer upon the
    holder hereof, as such, any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company or any
    right to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to
    shareholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any
    corporate action, or to receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting
    shareholders (except as provided in the Rights Agreement), or to receive
    dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Rights evidenced by
    this Rights Certificate shall have been exercised or exchanged as provided in
    the Rights Agreement.
    
    
    
    
          This Rights Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose
    until it shall have been countersigned by the Rights Agent.
    
          WITNESS the facsimile signature of the proper officers of the Company and
    its corporate seal.
    
    
    Date: ____________
    
    
    ATTEST:                                 INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
    
                                            By
                                               -------------------------------------
                                                           Secretary
    
    
                                            Countersigned:
    
                                            THE BANK OF NEW YORK
    
    
                                            By
                                               -------------------------------------
                                                       Authorized Signature
    
                                        [Form of Reverse Side of Rights Certificate]
    
    
    
    
                                   FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
                                   ------------------
    
                    (To be executed by the registered holder if such
                  holder desires to transfer this Rights Certificate.)
    
          FOR VALUE RECEIVED ________________________ hereby sells, assigns and
    transfers unto ___________________
                  (Please print name and address of transferee)
    this Rights Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein,
    and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _______________ Attorney, to
    transfer the within Rights Certificate on the books of the within-named Company,
    with full power of substitution.
    
    Dated:  _______________, ____
    
    
    Signature Guaranteed:
                                            ----------------------------------------
                                            Signature
                                            (Signature must correspond to name as
                                            written upon the face of this Rights
                                            Certificate in every particular, without
                                            alteration or enlargement or any change
                                            whatsoever)
    
          Signatures must be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks,
    stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in
    an approved signature guarantee Medallion program), pursuant to SEC Rule
    17Ad-15.
    
    - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                (To be completed if true)
    
    The undersigned hereby represents, for the benefit of all holders of Rights and
    shares of Common Stock, that the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate are
    not, and, to the knowledge of the undersigned, have never been, Beneficially
    Owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in
    the Rights Agreement).
    
    
                                            ----------------------------------------
                                            Signature
    
    
    - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    
    
                                         NOTICE
    
          In the event the certification set forth above is not completed in
    connection with a purported assignment, the Company will deem the Beneficial
    Owner of the Rights evidenced by the enclosed Rights Certificate to be an
    Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights
    Agreement) or a transferee of any of the foregoing and accordingly will deem the
    Rights evidenced by such Rights Certificate to be void and not transferable or
    exercisable.
    
                       [To be attached to each Rights Certificate]
    
    
    
    
                              FORM OF ELECTION TO EXERCISE
                              ----------------------------
    
                          (To be executed if holder desires to
                            exercise the Rights Certificate.)
    
    TO:  INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
          The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise
    _______________________ whole Rights represented by the attached Rights
    Certificate to purchase the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of
    such Rights and requests that certificates for such shares be issued in the name
    of:
    
                      -----------------------------------
                      Address:
                      -----------------------------------
                      -----------------------------------
                      Social Security or Other Taxpayer
                      Identification Number:
                      -----------------------------------
    
    If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Rights
    Certificate, a new Rights Certificate for the balance of such Rights shall be
    registered in the name of and delivered to:
    
                      -----------------------------------
                      Address:
                      -----------------------------------
                      -----------------------------------
                      Social Security or Other Taxpayer
                      Identification Number:
                      -----------------------------------
    
    Dated:  _______________, ____
    
    
    Signature Guaranteed:
                                        -------------------------------------------
                                        Signature
                                        (Signature must correspond to name as
                                        written upon the face of the attached Rights
                                        Certificate in every particular, without
                                        alteration or enlargement or any change
                                        whatsoever)
    
          Signatures must be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks,
    stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in
    an approved signature guarantee Medallion program), pursuant to SEC Rule
    17Ad-15.
    
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                                (To be completed if true)
    
          The undersigned hereby represents, for the benefit of all holders of
    Rights and shares of Common Stock, that the Rights evidenced by the attached
    Rights Certificate are not, and, to the knowledge of the undersigned, have never
    been, Beneficially Owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate
    thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement).
    
    
                                            ----------------------------------------
                                            Signature
    
    
    - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    
    
    
                                         NOTICE
    
          In the event the certification set forth above is not completed in
    connection with a purported exercise, the Company will deem the Beneficial Owner
    of the Rights evidenced by the attached Rights Certificate to be an Acquiring
    Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement)
    or a transferee of any of the foregoing and accordingly will deem the Rights
    evidenced by such Rights Certificate to be void and not transferable or
    exercisable.
    
    
    
    
                                 FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE
    
                         SHAREHOLDER PROTECTION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
    
                This FIRST AMENDMENT dated September 26, 2000 ("Amendment") to the
    SHAREHOLDER PROTECTION RIGHTS AGREEMENT dated as of March 21, 2000 (the
    "Agreement"), is made between International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., a New
    York corporation (the "Company"), and The Bank of New York, a New York banking
    corporation, as Rights Agent (the "Rights Agent"), which term shall include any
    successor Rights Agent hereunder). All terms having initial capital letters used
    herein not otherwise defined in this Amendment shall have the meanings set forth
    in the Agreement, as amended by this Amendment.
    
                WHEREAS, the Company and the Rights Agent entered into the Agreement
    for the purposes set forth therein; and
    
                WHEREAS, the Company and the Rights Agent have the authority to
    amend the Agreement in any respect prior to the Flip-in Date pursuant to Section
    5.4 of the Agreement;
    
                NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of $10.00 and other good and
    valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
    acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
    
                1. The Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the definition of
    "Acquiring Person" contained in Section 1.1 in its entirety with the following:
    
                "'Acquiring Person' shall mean any Person who is a Beneficial Owner
    of 15% or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock; provided, however,
    that the term "Acquiring Person" shall not include any Person (i) who is an
    Existing Shareholder, including any group that is comprised solely of Existing
    Shareholders, until such time hereafter as any such Existing Shareholder or
    group of Existing Shareholders, shall become the Beneficial Owner (other than by
    means of a stock dividend, stock split, gift or inheritance or receipt or
    exercise of, or accrual of any right to exercise, any stock options or shares of
    Common Stock granted by the Company) by purchase of additional shares of Common
    Stock which additional shares, in the aggregate, exceed one percent of the
    outstanding Common Stock at the time of such acquisition, (ii) who shall become
    the Beneficial Owner of 15% or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
    solely as a result of an acquisition by the Company of shares of Common Stock,
    until such time hereafter or thereafter as any of such Persons shall become the
    Beneficial Owner (other than by means of a stock dividend or stock split) of any
    additional shares of Common Stock, (iii) who becomes the Beneficial Owner of 15%
    or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock but who acquired Beneficial
    Ownership of shares of Common Stock without any plan or intention to seek or
    affect control of the Company, if such Person promptly divests, or enters into
    an agreement satisfactory to the Company, in its sole discretion, pursuant to
    which it will divest (without exercising or retaining any power, including
    voting power, with respect to such shares), sufficient shares of Common Stock
    (or securities convertible into, exchangeable into or exercisable for Common
    Stock) so that such Person ceases to be the Beneficial Owner of 15% or more of
    the outstanding shares of Common Stock or (iv) who Beneficially Owns shares of
    Common Stock consisting solely of one or more
    
    
    
    
    of (A) shares of Common Stock Beneficially Owned pursuant to the grant or
    exercise of an option granted to such Person (an "Option Holder") by the Company
    in connection with an agreement to merge with, or acquire, the Company entered
    into prior to a Flip-in Date, (B) shares of Common Stock (or securities
    convertible into, exchangeable into or exercisable for Common Stock),
    Beneficially Owned by such Option Holder or its Affiliates or Associates at the
    time of grant of such option, and (C) shares of Common Stock (or securities
    convertible into, exchangeable into or exercisable for Common Stock) acquired by
    Affiliates or Associates of such Option Holder after the time of such grant
    which, in the aggregate, amount to less than 1% of the outstanding shares of
    Common Stock. In addition, the Company, any wholly-owned Subsidiary of the
    Company and any employee stock ownership or other employee benefit plan of the
    Company or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company shall not be an Acquiring
    Person."
    
                2. The Agreement is hereby amended by adding a new subsection (c) to
    Section 5.1, reading as follows:
    
                "(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5.1(a) hereof, if,
    within 180 days of a public announcement by a third party of an intent or
    proposal to engage (without the current and continuing concurrence of the Board
    of Directors) in a transaction involving an acquisition of or business
    combination with the Company or otherwise to become an Acquiring Person, there
    is an election of Directors resulting in a majority of the Board of Directors
    being comprised of persons who were not nominated by the Board of Directors in
    office immediately prior to such election, then following the effectiveness of
    such election for a period of 180 days (the "Special Period") the Rights, if
    otherwise then redeemable absent the provisions of this paragraph (c), shall be
    redeemable upon either of the following conditions being satisfied, but not
    otherwise:
    
                (i)   by a vote of a majority of the Directors then in office,
    provided that
    
                (A) before such vote, the Board of Directors shall have implemented
    the Value Enhancement Procedures (as defined below) and
    
                (B)   promptly after such vote, the Company publicly announces such
    vote and
    
                      (I) the manner in which the Value Enhancement Procedures
    were implemented,
    
                      (II) any material financial, business, personal or other
    benefit or relationship (an "Interest") which each Director and each Affiliate
    of such Director (identifying each Director and Affiliate separately in relation
    to each such Interest) has in connection with any suggested, proposed or pending
    transaction with or involving the Company (a "Transaction"), or with any other
    party or Affiliate of any other party to a Transaction, where such Transaction
    would or might, or is intended to, be permitted or facilitated by redemption of
    the Rights (an "Affected Transaction"), other than treatment as a shareholder on
    a pro rata basis with other shareholders or pursuant to compensation
    arrangements as a director or employee of the Company or a subsidiary which have
    been previously disclosed by the Company,
    
    
    
    
                      (III) the individual vote of each Director on the motion to
    redeem the Rights, and
    
                      (IV) the statement of any Director who voted for or against
    the motion to redeem the Rights and desires to have a statement included in such
    announcement, or
    
                (ii) if clause (i) is not applicable, by a vote of a majority of the
    Directors then in office, provided that (A) if there is a challenge to the
    Directors' action approving redemption and/or any related Affected Transaction
    as a breach of the fiduciary duty of care or loyalty, the Directors, solely for
    purposes of determining the effectiveness of such redemption pursuant to this
    clause (ii), are able to establish the entire fairness of such redemption and,
    if applicable, such related Affected Transaction, and (B) the Company shall have
    publicly announced the vote of the Board of Directors approving such redemption
    and, if applicable, such related Affected Transaction, which announcement shall
    set forth the information prescribed by clauses (i) (B) (II), (III) and (IV)
    above.
    
    'Value Enhancement Procedures' shall mean:
    
                (1) the selection by the Board of Directors of an independent
    financial advisor (the "Independent Advisor") from among financial advisors
    which have national standing, have established expertise in advising on mergers,
    acquisitions and related matters and have no Interest relating to an Affected
    Transaction, and have not during the preceding year provided services to, been
    engaged by or been a financing source for any other party to an Affected
    Transaction or any Affiliate of any such party or of any Director (other than
    the Company and its subsidiaries);
    
                (2) whether or not there is a then-pending Affected Transaction,
    the receipt by the Board of Directors from its Independent Advisor of (a) such
    advisor's view (expressed in such form and subject to such qualifications and
    limitations as the Independent Advisor deems appropriate) regarding whether
    redemption of the Rights will serve the best interests of the Company and its
    shareholders or (b) such advisor's statement that it is unable to express such a
    view, setting forth the reasons therefor;
    
                (3) if there is a then-pending Affected Transaction,
    
                (A) the establishment and implementation by the Board of Directors
          of a process and procedures approved by its Independent Advisor which the
          Board of Directors and such advisor conclude Would be most likely to
          result in the best value reasonably available to shareholders (regardless
          of whether such Affected Transaction involves a "sale of control" or
          "break-up" of the Company),
    
                (B) the Board of Directors (I) receiving the opinion of its
          Independent Advisor, in customary form and content for transactions of the
          type involved, that the Affected Transaction is fair to the Company's
          shareholders from a financial point of view and (II) determining, and the
          Independent Advisor confirming, that it has no
    
    
    
    
          reason to believe that a superior transaction is reasonably available for
          the benefit of the Company's shareholders, and
    
                (C)   the execution of a definitive transaction agreement and other
          definitive documentation necessary to effect the Affected Transaction."
    
                3.  The Agreement is hereby amended by adding at the end of existing
    Section 5.4 a new sentence as follows:
    
    "Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, this Agreement may not be
    supplemented or amended (i) during the Special Period or (ii) to lengthen the
    time period during which the Rights may be redeemed at a time when the Rights
    are not then redeemable."
    
                4. Except as amended hereby, all of the terms of the Agreement shall
    remain and continue in full force and effect and hereby confirmed in all
    respects.
    
                5. THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
    WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND APPLICABLE FEDERAL LAW WITHOUT REGARD
    TO CHOICE OF LAW RULES.
    
                6. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts
    and by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which,
    when so executed and delivered, shall be an original, but all the counterparts
    shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
    
                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this First
    Amendment to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
    
                                  INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
    
                                  By: /s/ STEPHEN A. BLOCK
                                      --------------------------------------
                                      Stephen A. Block
                                      Senior Vice-President,
                                        General Counsel & Secretary
    
    
                                  THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Rights Agent
    
    
                                  By: /s/ JOHN I. SIVERTSEN
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                                      John I. Sivertsen
                                      Vice-President
    
    
    
    
    
                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
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                           2000 STOCK AWARD AND INCENTIVE PLAN
    
                        AS AMENDED AND RESTATED NOVEMBER 8, 2004
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                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
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                           2000 STOCK AWARD AND INCENTIVE PLAN
                        AS AMENDED AND RESTATED NOVEMBER 8, 2004
    
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    1.     Purpose ...........................................................    1
    
    2.     Definitions .......................................................    1
    
    3.     Administration ....................................................    3
    
    4.     Stock Subject to Plan .............................................    4
    
    5.     Eligibility; Per-Person Award Limitations .........................    5
    
    6.     Specific Terms of Awards ..........................................    6
    
    7.     Performance Awards, Including Annual Incentive Awards .............   10
    
    8.     Certain Provisions Applicable to Awards ...........................   14
    
    9.     Change in Control .................................................   15
    
    10.    Additional Award Forfeiture Provisions ............................   18
    
    11.    General Provisions ................................................   20
    
    
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                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
                           2000 STOCK AWARD AND INCENTIVE PLAN
                        AS AMENDED AND RESTATED NOVEMBER 8, 2004
    
          1.    PURPOSE. The purpose of this 2000 Stock Award and Incentive Plan
    (the "Plan") is to aid International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., a New York
    corporation (the "Company"), in attracting, retaining, motivating and rewarding
    employees, non-employee directors, and other persons who provide substantial
    services to the Company or its subsidiaries or affiliates, to provide for
    equitable and competitive compensation opportunities, to recognize individual
    contributions and reward achievement of Company goals, and promote the creation
    of long-term value for shareholders by closely aligning the interests of
    Participants with those of shareholders. The Plan authorizes stock-based and
    cash-based incentives for Participants.
    
          2.    DEFINITIONS. In addition to the terms defined in Section 1 above and
    elsewhere in the Plan, the following capitalized terms used in the Plan have the
    respective meanings set forth in this Section:
    
                (a)   "Annual Incentive Award" means a type of Performance Award
          granted to a Participant under Section 7(c) representing a conditional
          right to receive cash, Stock or other Awards or payments, as determined by
          the Committee, based on performance in a performance period of one fiscal
          year or a portion thereof.
    
                (b)   "Award" means any cash award, Option, SAR, Restricted Stock,
          Deferred Stock, Stock granted as a bonus or in lieu of another award,
          Dividend Equivalent, Other Stock-Based Award, Performance Award or Annual
          Incentive Award, together with any related right or interest, granted to a
          Participant under the Plan.
    
                (c)   "Beneficiary" means any family member or members, including by
          marriage or adoption, any trust in which the Participant or any family
          member or members have more than 50% of the beneficial interest, and any
          other entity in which the Participant or any family member or members own
          more than 50% of the voting interests, in each case designated by the
          Participant in his most recent written Beneficiary designation filed with
          the Committee as entitled to exercise rights or receive benefits in
          connection with the Award (or any portion thereof), or if there is no
          surviving designated Beneficiary, then the person, persons, trust or
          trusts entitled by will or the laws of descent and distribution to
          exercise rights or receive benefits in connection with the Award on behalf
          or in lieu of such non-surviving designated Beneficiary.
    
                (d)   "Board" means the Company's Board of Directors.
    
                (e)   "Change in Control" and related terms have the meanings
          specified in Section 9.
    
    
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                (f)   "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
          References to any provision of the Code or regulation (including a
          proposed regulation) thereunder shall include any successor provisions and
          regulations.
    
                (g)   "Committee" means a committee of two or more directors
          designated by the Board to administer the Plan; provided, however, that,
          directors appointed or serving as members of a Board committee designated
          as the Committee shall not be employees of the Company or any subsidiary
          or affiliate. In appointing members of the Committee, the Board will
          consider whether a member is or will be a Qualified Member, but such
          members are not required to be Qualified Members at the time of
          appointment or during their term of service on the Committee. The full
          Board may perform any function of the Committee hereunder, in which case
          the term "Committee" shall refer to the Board.
    
                (h)   "Covered Employee" means an Eligible Person who is a Covered
          Employee as specified in Section 11(j).
    
                (i)   "Deferred Stock" means a right, granted to a Participant under
          Section 6(e), to receive Stock or other Awards or a combination thereof at
          the end of a specified deferral period.
    
                (j)   "Dividend Equivalent" means a right, granted to a Participant
          under Section 6(g), to receive cash, Stock, other Awards or other property
          equal in value to all or a specified portion of the dividends paid with
          respect to a specified number of shares of Stock.
    
                (k)   "Effective Date" means the effective date specified in Section
          11(p).
    
                (l)   "Eligible Person" has the meaning specified in Section 5.
    
                (m)   "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
          amended. References to any provision of the Exchange Act or rule
          (including a proposed rule) thereunder shall include any successor
          provisions and rules.
    
                (n)   "Fair Market Value" means the fair market value of Stock,
          Awards or other property as determined by the Committee or under
          procedures established by the Committee. Unless otherwise determined by
          the Committee, the Fair Market Value of Stock shall be the closing sale
          price reported on the composite tape of the New York Stock Exchange on the
          day as of which such value is being determined or, if there is no sale on
          that day, then on the last previous day on which a sale was reported.
    
                (o)   "Incentive Stock Option" or "ISO" means any Option designated
          as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Code Section 422 or any
          successor provision thereto and qualifying thereunder.
    
                (p)   "Option" means a right, granted to a Participant under Section
          6(b), to purchase Stock or other Awards at a specified price during
          specified time periods.
    
                (q)   "Other Stock-Based Awards" means Awards granted to a
          Participant under
    
    
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          Section 6(h).
    
                (r)   "Participant" means a person who has been granted an Award
          under the Plan which remains outstanding, including a person who is no
          longer an Eligible Person.
    
                (s)   "Performance Award" means a conditional right, granted to a
          Participant under Sections 6(i) and 7, to receive cash, Stock or other
          Awards or payments, as determined by the Committee, based upon performance
          criteria specified by the Committee.
    
                (t)   "Qualified Member" means a member of the Committee who is a
          "Non-Employee Director" within the meaning of Rule 16b-3(b)(3) and an
          "outside director" within the meaning of Regulation 1.162-27 under Code
          Section 162(m).
    
                (u)   "Restricted Stock" means Stock granted to a Participant under
          Section 6(d) which is subject to certain restrictions and to a risk of
          forfeiture.
    
                (v)   "Rule 16b-3" means Rule 16b-3, as from time to time in effect
          and applicable to Participants, promulgated by the Securities and Exchange
          Commission under Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
    
                (w)   "Stock" means the Company's Common Stock, and any other equity
          securities of the Company that may be substituted or resubstituted for
          Stock pursuant to Section 11(c).
    
                (x)   "Stock Appreciation Rights" or "SAR" means a right granted to
          a Participant under Section 6(c).
    
          3.    ADMINISTRATION.
    
                (a)   Authority of the Committee. The Plan shall be administered by
          the Committee, which shall have full and final authority, in each case
          subject to and consistent with the provisions of the Plan, to select
          Eligible Persons to become Participants; to grant Awards; to determine the
          type and number of Awards, the dates on which Awards may be exercised and
          on which the risk of forfeiture or deferral period relating to Awards
          shall lapse or terminate, the acceleration of any such dates, the
          expiration date of any Award, whether, to what extent, and under what
          circumstances an Award may be settled, or the exercise price of an Award
          may be paid, in cash, Stock, other Awards, or other property, and other
          terms and conditions of, and all other matters relating to, Awards; to
          prescribe documents evidencing or setting terms of Awards (such Award
          documents need not be identical for each Participant), amendments thereto,
          and rules and regulations for the administration of the Plan and
          amendments thereto; to construe and interpret the Plan and Award documents
          and correct defects, supply omissions or reconcile inconsistencies
          therein; and to make all other decisions and determinations as the
          Committee may deem necessary or advisable for the administration of the
          Plan. Decisions of the Committee with respect to the administration and
          interpretation of the Plan shall be final, conclusive, and binding upon
          all persons interested in the Plan, including Participants, Beneficiaries,
          transferees under Section 11(b) and other persons claiming rights from or
          through a Participant, and shareholders. The foregoing notwithstanding,
          the Board shall perform the functions of the Committee for purposes of
          granting Awards under the Plan to non-
    
    
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          employee directors (authority with respect to other aspects of
          non-employee director awards is not exclusive to the Board, however).
    
                (b)   Manner of Exercise of Committee Authority. At any time that a
          member of the Committee is not a Qualified Member, (i) any action of the
          Committee relating to an Award intended by the Committee to qualify as
          "performance-based compensation" within the meaning of Code Section 162(m)
          and regulations thereunder may be taken by a subcommittee, designated by
          the Committee or the Board, composed solely of two or more Qualified
          Members, and (ii) any action relating to an Award granted or to be granted
          to a Participant who is then subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act in
          respect of the Company may be taken either by such a subcommittee or by
          the Committee but with each such member who is not a Qualified Member
          abstaining or recusing himself or herself from such action, provided that,
          upon such abstention or recusal, the Committee remains composed of two or
          more Qualified Members. Such action, authorized by such a subcommittee or
          by the Committee upon the abstention or recusal of such non-Qualified
          Member(s), shall be the action of the Committee for purposes of the Plan.
          The express grant of any specific power to the Committee, and the taking
          of any action by the Committee, shall not be construed as limiting any
          power or authority of the Committee. The Committee may delegate to
          officers or managers of the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate, or
          committees thereof, the authority, subject to such terms as the Committee
          shall determine, to perform such functions, including administrative
          functions, as the Committee may determine, to the extent that such
          delegation will not result in the loss of an exemption under Rule 16b-3(d)
          for Awards granted to Participants subject to Section 16 of the Exchange
          Act in respect of the Company and will not cause Awards intended to
          qualify as "performance-based compensation" under Code Section 162(m) to
          fail to so qualify.
    
                (c)   Limitation of Liability. The Committee and each member
          thereof, and any person acting pursuant to authority delegated by the
          Committee, shall be entitled, in good faith, to rely or act upon any
          report or other information furnished by any executive officer, other
          officer or employee of the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate, the
          Company's independent auditors, consultants or any other agents assisting
          in the administration of the Plan. Members of the Committee, any person
          acting pursuant to authority delegated by the Committee, and any officer
          or employee of the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate acting at the
          direction or on behalf of the Committee or a delegee shall not be
          personally liable for any action or determination taken or made in good
          faith with respect to the Plan, and shall, to the extent permitted by law,
          be fully indemnified and protected by the Company with respect to any such
          action or determination.
    
          4.    STOCK SUBJECT TO PLAN.
    
                (a)   Overall Number of Shares Available for Delivery. Subject to
          adjustment as provided in Section 11(c), the total number of shares of
          Stock reserved and available for delivery in connection with Awards under
          the Plan shall be 9,000,000 shares plus the number of shares reserved for
          options under the Company's 1997 Employee Stock Option Plan (the "1997
          Plan") but which have not been issued and delivered under the 1997 Plan,
          including such 1997 Plan shares as may become available in accordance with
          Section 4(b) hereof; provided, however, that the total number of shares
          with respect to which ISOs may be granted shall not exceed 9,000,000; and
          provided further, that the total number of shares which may be issued and
          delivered in connection with Awards other than Options
    
    
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          and SARs shall not exceed 2,700,000. Any shares of Stock delivered under
          the Plan shall consist of authorized and unissued shares or treasury
          shares.
    
                (b)   Share Counting Rules. The Committee may adopt reasonable
          counting procedures to ensure appropriate counting, avoid double counting
          (as, for example, in the case of tandem or substitute awards) and make
          adjustments if the number of shares of Stock actually delivered differs
          from the number of shares previously counted in connection with an Award ;
          provided, however, that shares withheld in payment of taxes upon vesting
          of Restricted Stock and shares equal to the number of outstanding shares
          surrendered in payment of the exercise price or taxes relating to an Award
          shall not become available again under the Plan if the withholding or
          surrender transaction occurs more than ten years after the date of the
          most recent shareholder approval of the Plan, and otherwise shares shall
          not become available under this Section 4(b) in an event that would
          constitute a "material revision" of the Plan subject to shareholder
          approval under then applicable rules of the New York Stock Exchange.
          Shares subject to an Award or a 1997 Plan award that is canceled, expired,
          forfeited, settled in cash or otherwise terminated without a delivery of
          shares to the Participant will again be available for Awards, and shares
          withheld in payment of the exercise price or taxes relating to an Award or
          1997 Plan award and shares equal to the number surrendered in payment of
          any exercise price or taxes relating to an Award or 1997 Plan award shall
          be deemed to constitute shares not delivered to the Participant and shall
          be deemed to again be available for Awards under the Plan. In addition, in
          the case of any Award granted in substitution for an award of a company or
          business acquired by the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate, shares
          issued or issuable in connection with such substitute Award shall not be
          counted against the number of shares reserved under the Plan, but shall be
          available under the Plan by virtue of the Company's assumption of the plan
          or arrangement of the acquired company or business. This Section 4(b)
          shall apply to the number of shares reserved and available for ISOs only
          to the extent consistent with applicable regulations relating to ISOs
          under the Code.
    
          5.    ELIGIBILITY; PER-PERSON AWARD LIMITATIONS. Awards may be granted
    under the Plan only to Eligible Persons. For purposes of the Plan, an "Eligible
    Person" means an employee of the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate,
    including any executive officer, a non-employee director of the Company, a
    consultant or other person who provides substantial services to the Company or a
    subsidiary or affiliate, and any person who has been offered employment by the
    Company or a subsidiary or affiliate, provided that such prospective employee,
    non-employee director, consultant or other person may not receive any payment or
    exercise any right relating to an Award until such person has commenced
    employment with or providing of services to the Company or a subsidiary or
    affiliate. An employee on leave of absence may be considered as still in the
    employ of the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate for purposes of eligibility
    for participation in the Plan. For purposes of the Plan, a joint venture in
    which the Company or a subsidiary has a substantial direct or indirect equity
    investment shall be deemed an affiliate, if so determined by the Committee. In
    each calendar year during any part of which the Plan is in effect, an Eligible
    Person may be granted Awards intended to qualify as "performance-based
    compensation" under Code Section 162(m) under each of Section 6(b), 6(c), 6(d),
    6(e), 6(f), 6(g) or 6(h) relating to up to his or her Annual Limit (such Annual
    Limit to apply separately to the type of Award authorized under each specified
    subsection, except that the limitation applies to
    
    
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    Dividend Equivalents under Section 6(g) only if such Dividend Equivalents are
    granted separately from and not as a feature of another Award). A Participant's
    Annual Limit, in any year during any part of which the Participant is then
    eligible under the Plan, shall equal two million shares plus the amount of the
    Participant's unused Annual Limit relating to the same type of Award as of the
    close of the previous year, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 11(c).
    In the case of an Award which is not valued in a way in which the limitation set
    forth in the preceding sentence would operate as an effective limitation
    satisfying Treasury Regulation 1.162-27(e)(4) (including Performance Awards
    under Section 7 not related to an Award specified in Section 6), the maximum
    amount of an Annual Incentive Award under Section 7(c) that may be earned by an
    Eligible Person in any year shall be 50% of the amount of the Annual Incentive
    Pool specified in Section 7(c)(ii), and the maximum amount of such an Award
    other than an Annual Incentive Award under Section 7(c) that may be earned by an
    Eligible Person during any calendar year shall be equal to the Participant's
    Annual Limit, which for this purpose shall equal $6 million plus the amount of
    the Participant's unused cash Annual Limit for such Awards other than Annual
    Incentive Awards as of the close of the previous year. For purposes of this
    Section 5, (i) the limitation on share-based awards, the limitation on the
    earning of Annual Incentive Awards, and the limitation on the earning of
    non-share-based Awards other than Annual Incentive Awards each is a separate
    limitation, which is not decreased by the authorization or payout of Awards that
    are subject to the other limitations; (ii) "earning" means satisfying
    performance conditions so that an amount becomes payable, without regard to
    whether it is to be paid currently or on a deferred basis or continues to be
    subject to any service requirement or other non-performance condition; and (iii)
    a Participant's Annual Limit is used to the extent an amount or number of shares
    may be potentially earned or paid under an Award, regardless of whether such
    amount or shares are in fact earned or paid.
    
          6.    SPECIFIC TERMS OF AWARDS.
    
                (a)   General. Awards may be granted on the terms and conditions set
          forth in this Section 6. In addition, the Committee may impose on any
          Award or the exercise thereof, at the date of grant or thereafter (subject
          to Section 11(e)), such additional terms and conditions, not inconsistent
          with the provisions of the Plan, as the Committee shall determine,
          including terms requiring forfeiture of Awards in the event of termination
          of employment or service by the Participant and terms permitting a
          Participant to make elections relating to his or her Award. The Committee
          shall retain full power and discretion with respect to any term or
          condition of an Award that is not mandatory under the Plan. The Committee
          shall require the payment of lawful consideration for an Award to the
          extent necessary to satisfy the requirements of the New York Business
          Corporation Law, and may otherwise require payment of consideration for an
          Award except as limited by the Plan.
    
                (b)   Options. The Committee is authorized to grant Options to
          Participants on the following terms and conditions:
    
                      (i)   Exercise Price. The exercise price per share of Stock
                purchasable under an Option (including both ISOs and non-qualified
                Options) shall be determined by the Committee, provided that such
                exercise price shall be not less than the Fair Market Value of a
                share of Stock on the date of grant of such Option, subject to
                Sections 6(f) and 8(a).
    
                      (ii)  Option Term; Time and Method of Exercise. The Committee
                shall
    
    
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                determine the term of each Option, provided that in no event shall
                the term of any ISO or SAR in tandem therewith exceed a period of
                ten years from the date of grant. The Committee shall determine the
                time or times at which or the circumstances under which an Option
                may be exercised in whole or in part (including based on achievement
                of performance goals and/or future service requirements), the
                methods by which such exercise price may be paid or deemed to be
                paid and the form of such payment (subject to Section 11(k)),
                including, without limitation, cash, Stock, other Awards or awards
                granted under other plans of the Company or any subsidiary or
                affiliate, or other property (including through "cashless exercise"
                arrangements, to the extent permitted by applicable law, but
                excluding any exercise method in which a personal loan would be made
                from the Company to the Participant), and the methods by or forms in
                which Stock will be delivered or deemed to be delivered in
                satisfaction of Options to Participants (including deferred delivery
                of shares representing the Option "profit," at the election of the
                Participant or as mandated by the Committee, with such deferred
                shares subject to any vesting, forfeiture or other terms as the
                Committee may specify).
    
                      (iii) ISOs. The terms of any ISO granted under the Plan shall
                comply in all respects with the provisions of Code Section 422,
                including but not limited to the requirement that no ISO shall be
                granted more than ten years after the Effective Date.
    
                (c)   Stock Appreciation Rights. The Committee is authorized to
          grant SAR's to Participants on the following terms and conditions:
    
                      (i)   Right to Payment. An SAR shall confer on the Participant
                to whom it is granted a right to receive, upon exercise thereof, the
                excess of (A) the Fair Market Value of one share of Stock on the
                date of exercise (or, in the case of a "Limited SAR," the Fair
                Market Value determined by reference to the Change in Control Price,
                as defined under Section 9(d) hereof) over (B) the grant price of
                the SAR as determined by the Committee.
    
                      (ii)  Other Terms. The Committee shall determine at the date
                of grant or thereafter, the time or times at which and the
                circumstances under which a SAR may be exercised in whole or in part
                (including based on achievement of performance goals and/or future
                service requirements), the method of exercise, method of settlement,
                form of consideration payable in settlement, method by or forms in
                which Stock will be delivered or deemed to be delivered to
                Participants, and whether or not a SAR shall be free-standing or in
                tandem or combination with any other Award. Limited SARs that may
                only be exercised in connection with a Change in Control or other
                event as specified by the Committee may be granted on such terms,
                not inconsistent with this Section 6(c), as the Committee may
                determine.
    
                (d)   Restricted Stock. The Committee is authorized to grant
          Restricted Stock to Participants on the following terms and conditions:
    
                      (i)   Grant and Restrictions. Restricted Stock shall be
                subject to such restrictions on transferability, risk of forfeiture
                and other restrictions, if any, as the Committee may impose, which
                restrictions may lapse separately or in combination at
    
    
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                such times, under such circumstances (including based on achievement
                of performance goals and/or future service requirements), in such
                installments or otherwise and under such other circumstances as the
                Committee may determine at the date of grant or thereafter. The
                foregoing notwithstanding, Restricted Stock will vest over a minimum
                period of one year except in the event of a Participant's death,
                disability, or retirement, or in the event of a Change in Control or
                other special circumstances. For purposes of this Section 6(d),
                vesting over a one-year period will include periodic vesting over
                such period if the rate of such vesting is proportional throughout
                such period. Except to the extent restricted under the terms of the
                Plan and any Award document relating to the Restricted Stock, a
                Participant granted Restricted Stock shall have all of the rights of
                a shareholder, including the right to vote the Restricted Stock and
                the right to receive dividends thereon (subject to any mandatory
                reinvestment or other requirement imposed by the Committee).
    
                      (ii)  Forfeiture. Except as otherwise determined by the
                Committee, upon termination of employment or service during the
                applicable restriction period, Restricted Stock that is at that time
                subject to restrictions shall be forfeited and reacquired by the
                Company; provided that the Committee may provide, by rule or
                regulation or in any Award document, or may determine in any
                individual case, that restrictions or forfeiture conditions relating
                to Restricted Stock will lapse in whole or in part, including in the
                event of terminations resulting from specified causes.
    
                      (iii) Certificates for Stock. Restricted Stock granted under
                the Plan may be evidenced in such manner as the Committee shall
                determine. If certificates representing Restricted Stock are
                registered in the name of the Participant, the Committee may require
                that such certificates bear an appropriate legend referring to the
                terms, conditions and restrictions applicable to such Restricted
                Stock, that the Company retain physical possession of the
                certificates, and that the Participant deliver a stock power to the
                Company, endorsed in blank, relating to the Restricted Stock.
    
                      (iv)  Dividends and Splits. As a condition to the grant of an
                Award of Restricted Stock, the Committee may require that any
                dividends paid on a share of Restricted Stock shall be either (A)
                paid with respect to such Restricted Stock at the dividend payment
                date in cash, in kind, or in a number of shares of unrestricted
                Stock having a Fair Market Value equal to the amount of such
                dividends, or (B) automatically reinvested in additional Restricted
                Stock or held in kind, which shall be subject to the same terms as
                applied to the original Restricted Stock to which it relates, or (C)
                deferred as to payment, either as a cash deferral or with the amount
                or value thereof automatically deemed reinvested in shares of
                Deferred Stock, other Awards or other investment vehicles, subject
                to such terms as the Committee shall determine or permit a
                Participant to elect. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee,
                Stock distributed in connection with a Stock split or Stock
                dividend, and other property distributed as a dividend, shall be
                subject to restrictions and a risk of forfeiture to the same extent
                as the Restricted Stock with respect to which such Stock or other
                property has been distributed.
    
                (e)   Deferred Stock. The Committee is authorized to grant Deferred
          Stock to
    
    
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          Participants, which are rights to receive Stock, other Awards, or a
          combination thereof at the end of a specified deferral period, subject to
          the following terms and conditions:
    
                      (i)   Award and Restrictions. Issuance of Stock will occur
                upon expiration of the deferral period specified for an Award of
                Deferred Stock by the Committee (or, if permitted by the Committee,
                as elected by the Participant). In addition, Deferred Stock shall be
                subject to such restrictions on transferability, risk of forfeiture
                and other restrictions, if any, as the Committee may impose, which
                restrictions may lapse at the expiration of the deferral period or
                at earlier specified times (including based on achievement of
                performance goals and/or future service requirements), separately or
                in combination, in installments or otherwise, and under such other
                circumstances as the Committee may determine at the date of grant or
                thereafter. Deferred Stock may be satisfied by delivery of Stock,
                other Awards, or a combination thereof (subject to Section 11(k)),
                as determined by the Committee at the date of grant or thereafter.
    
                      (ii)  Forfeiture. Except as otherwise determined by the
                Committee, upon termination of employment or service during the
                applicable deferral period or portion thereof to which forfeiture
                conditions apply (as provided in the Award document evidencing the
                Deferred Stock), all Deferred Stock that is at that time subject to
                such forfeiture conditions shall be forfeited; provided that the
                Committee may provide, by rule or regulation or in any Award
                document, or may determine in any individual case, that restrictions
                or forfeiture conditions relating to Deferred Stock will lapse in
                whole or in part, including in the event of terminations resulting
                from specified causes.
    
                      (iii) Dividend Equivalents. Unless otherwise determined by the
                Committee, Dividend Equivalents on the specified number of shares of
                Stock covered by an Award of Deferred Stock shall be either (A) paid
                with respect to such Deferred Stock at the dividend payment date in
                cash or in shares of unrestricted Stock having a Fair Market Value
                equal to the amount of such dividends, or (B) deferred with respect
                to such Deferred Stock, either as a cash deferral or with the amount
                or value thereof automatically deemed reinvested in additional
                Deferred Stock, other Awards or other investment vehicles having a
                Fair Market Value equal to the amount of such dividends, as the
                Committee shall determine or permit a Participant to elect.
    
                (f)   Bonus Stock and Awards in Lieu of Obligations. The Committee
          is authorized to grant Stock as a bonus, or to grant Stock or other Awards
          in lieu of obligations of the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate to pay
          cash or deliver other property under the Plan or under other plans or
          compensatory arrangements, subject to such terms as shall be determined by
          the Committee.
    
                (g)   Dividend Equivalents. The Committee is authorized to grant
          Dividend Equivalents to a Participant, entitling the Participant to
          receive cash, Stock, other Awards, or other property equivalent to all or
          a portion of the dividends paid with respect to a specified number of
          shares of Stock. Dividend Equivalents may be awarded on a free-standing
          basis or in connection with another Award. The Committee may provide that
          Dividend Equivalents shall be paid or distributed when accrued or shall be
          deemed to have been reinvested in additional Stock, Awards, or other
          investment vehicles, and subject to restrictions on transferability, risks
          of forfeiture and such other terms as the Committee may specify.
    
    
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                (h)   Other Stock-Based Awards. The Committee is authorized, subject
          to limitations under applicable law, to grant to Participants such other
          Awards that may be denominated or payable in, valued in whole or in part
          by reference to, or otherwise based on, or related to, Stock or factors
          that may influence the value of Stock, including, without limitation,
          convertible or exchangeable debt securities, other rights convertible or
          exchangeable into Stock, purchase rights for Stock, Awards with value and
          payment contingent upon performance of the Company or business units
          thereof or any other factors designated by the Committee, and Awards
          valued by reference to the book value of Stock or the value of securities
          of or the performance of specified subsidiaries or affiliates or other
          business units. The Committee shall determine the terms and conditions of
          such Awards. Stock delivered pursuant to an Award in the nature of a
          purchase right granted under this Section 6(h) shall be purchased for such
          consideration, paid for at such times, by such methods, and in such forms,
          including, without limitation, cash, Stock, other Awards, notes, or other
          property, as the Committee shall determine. Cash awards, as an element of
          or supplement to any other Award under the Plan, may also be granted
          pursuant to this Section 6(h).
    
                (i)   Performance Awards. Performance Awards, denominated in cash or
          in Stock or other Awards, may be granted by the Committee in accordance
          with Section 7.
    
          7.    PERFORMANCE AWARDS, INCLUDING ANNUAL INCENTIVE AWARDS.
    
                (a)   Performance Awards Generally. The Committee is authorized to
          grant Performance Awards on the terms and conditions specified in this
          Section 7. Performance Awards may be denominated as a cash amount, number
          of shares of Stock, or specified number of other Awards (or a combination)
          which may be earned upon achievement or satisfaction of performance
          conditions specified by the Committee. In addition, the Committee may
          specify that any other Award shall constitute a Performance Award by
          conditioning the right of a Participant to exercise the Award or have it
          settled, and the timing thereof, upon achievement or satisfaction of such
          performance conditions as may be specified by the Committee. The Committee
          may use such business criteria and other measures of performance as it may
          deem appropriate in establishing any performance conditions, and may
          exercise its discretion to reduce or increase the amounts payable under
          any Award subject to performance conditions, except as limited under
          Sections 7(b) and 7(c) in the case of a Performance Award intended to
          qualify as "performance-based compensation" under Code Section 162(m).
    
                (b)   Performance Awards Granted to Covered Employees. If the
          Committee determines that a Performance Award to be granted to an Eligible
          Person who is designated by the Committee as likely to be a Covered
          Employee should qualify as "performance-based compensation" for purposes
          of Code Section 162(m), the grant, exercise and/or settlement of such
          Performance Award shall be contingent upon achievement of a preestablished
          performance goal and other terms set forth in this Section 7(b).
    
                      (i)   Performance Goal Generally. The performance goal for
                such Performance Awards shall consist of one or more business
                criteria and a targeted level or levels of performance with respect
                to each of such criteria, as specified by
    
    
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                the Committee consistent with this Section 7(b). The performance
                goal shall be objective and shall otherwise meet the requirements of
                Code Section 162(m) and regulations thereunder (including Regulation
                1.162-27 and successor regulations thereto), including the
                requirement that the level or levels of performance targeted by the
                Committee result in the achievement of performance goals being
                "substantially uncertain." The Committee may determine that such
                Performance Awards shall be granted, exercised and/or settled upon
                achievement of any one performance goal or that two or more of the
                performance goals must be achieved as a condition to grant, exercise
                and/or settlement of such Performance Awards. Performance goals may
                differ for Performance Awards granted to any one Participant or to
                different Participants.
    
                      (ii)  Business Criteria. One or more of the following business
                criteria for the Company, on a consolidated basis, and/or for
                specified subsidiaries or affiliates or other business units of the
                Company shall be used by the Committee in establishing performance
                goals for such Performance Awards: (1) net sales; (2) earnings from
                operations, earnings before or after taxes, earnings before or after
                interest, depreciation, amortization, or extraordinary or special
                items; (3) net income or net income per common share (basic or
                diluted); (4) return on assets (gross or net), return on investment,
                return on capital, or return on equity; (5) cash flow, free cash
                flow, cash flow return on investment (discounted or otherwise), net
                cash provided by operations, or cash flow in excess of cost of
                capital; (6) economic value created; (7) operating margin or profit
                margin; (8) stock price or total shareholder return; (9) dividend
                payout as a percentage of net income; and (10) strategic business
                criteria, consisting of one or more objectives based on meeting
                specified market penetration, geographic business expansion goals,
                cost targets, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction,
                management of employment practices and employee benefits,
                supervision of litigation and information technology, and goals
                relating to acquisitions or divestitures of subsidiaries, affiliates
                or joint ventures. The targeted level or levels of performance with
                respect to such business criteria may be established at such levels
                and in such terms as the Committee may determine, in its discretion,
                including in absolute terms, as a goal relative to performance in
                prior periods, or as a goal compared to the performance of one or
                more comparable companies or an index covering multiple companies.
    
                      (iii) Performance Period; Timing for Establishing Performance
                Goals; Per-Person Limit. Achievement of performance goals in respect
                of such Performance Awards shall be measured over a performance
                period of up to one year or more than one year, as specified by the
                Committee. A performance goal shall be established not later than
                the earlier of (A) 90 days after the beginning of any performance
                period applicable to such Performance Award or (B) the time 25% of
                such performance period has elapsed. In all cases, the maximum
                Performance Award of any Participant shall be subject to the
                limitation set forth in Section 5.
    
                      (iv)  Performance Award Pool. The Committee may establish a
                Performance Award pool, which shall be an unfunded pool, for
                purposes of measuring performance of the Company in connection with
                Performance Awards. The amount of such Performance Award pool shall
                be based upon the achievement of a performance goal or goals based
                on one or more of the business criteria set forth in
    
    
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                Section 7(b)(ii) during the given performance period, as specified
                by the Committee in accordance with Section 7(b)(iv). The Committee
                may specify the amount of the Performance Award pool as a percentage
                of any of such business criteria, a percentage thereof in excess of
                a threshold amount, or as another amount which need not bear a
                strictly mathematical relationship to such business criteria.
    
                      (v)   Settlement of Performance Awards; Other Terms.
                Settlement of such Performance Awards shall be in cash, Stock, other
                Awards or other property, in the discretion of the Committee. The
                Committee may, in its discretion, increase or reduce the amount of a
                settlement otherwise to be made in connection with such Performance
                Awards, but may not exercise discretion to increase any such amount
                payable to a Covered Employee in respect of a Performance Award
                subject to this Section 7(b). Any settlement which changes the form
                of payment from that originally specified shall be implemented in a
                manner such that the Performance Award and other related Awards do
                not, solely for that reason, fail to qualify as "performance-based
                compensation" for purposes of Code Section 162(m). The Committee
                shall specify the circumstances in which such Performance Awards
                shall be paid or forfeited in the event of termination of employment
                by the Participant or other event (including a Change in Control)
                prior to the end of a performance period or settlement of such
                Performance Awards.
    
                (c)   Annual Incentive Awards Granted to Designated Covered
          Employees. The Committee may grant an Annual Incentive Award to an
          Eligible Person who is designated by the Committee as likely to be a
          Covered Employee. Such Annual Incentive Award will be intended to qualify
          as "performance-based compensation" for purposes of Code Section 162(m),
          and therefore its grant, exercise and/or settlement shall be contingent
          upon achievement of preestablished performance goals and other terms set
          forth in this Section 7(c).
    
                      (i)   Grant of Annual Incentive Awards. Not later than the
                earlier of 90 days after the beginning of any performance period
                applicable to such Annual Incentive Award or the time 25% of such
                performance period has elapsed, the Committee shall determine the
                Covered Employees who will potentially receive Annual Incentive
                Awards, and the amount(s) potentially payable thereunder, for that
                performance period. The amount(s) potentially payable as Annual
                Incentive Awards may be earned and become payable under the Plan
                only if and to the extent the Annual Incentive Pool, specified in
                Section 7(c)(ii), has become hypothetically funded. The portion of
                the Annual Incentive Award pool potentially payable to each Covered
                Employee shall be preestablished by the Committee. The foregoing
                notwithstanding, if any portion of the Annual Incentive Pool for a
                given fiscal year is not allocated and paid out for that year, the
                Committee, at any time after such fiscal year, may allocate and pay
                out from such then-unallocated amounts of hypothetical funding
                remaining an Award to any Eligible Person other than a Covered
                Employee, but such allocations may not affect the allocations or
                payouts to any Covered Employee. In all cases, the maximum Annual
                Incentive Award of any Participant shall be subject to the
                limitation set forth in Section 5. This Section 7(c) does not
                preclude the Committee from granting a Performance Award under
                Section 7(b) based on performance in a period of one year or less,
                in addition to or in lieu of an Annual Incentive Award under this
                Section 7(c).
    
    
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                      (ii)  Creation of Annual Incentive Pool. The Annual Incentive
                Pool for each fiscal year of the Company shall equal 10% of the
                amount by which the "pretax consolidated earnings" (as hereinafter
                defined) for such year shall exceed 20% of "net capital" (as
                hereinafter defined) for such year; provided, however, that the
                Annual Incentive Pool shall not exceed for any year 10% of the
                amount of cash dividends paid by the Company in such year. As soon
                as practicable after the end of each year the amount of the Annual
                Incentive Pool for such year shall be audited by the Company's
                independent public accountants and shall be reported by them to the
                Committee. The term "pretax consolidated earnings" for any fiscal
                year means the sum of (i) the consolidated net earnings of the
                Company and its subsidiaries for such year before (A) extraordinary
                items determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting
                principles and (B) the cumulative effect of accounting changes, as
                contained in the financial statements audited by the Company's
                independent public accountants and reported by the Company in its
                annual report to shareholders for such year, (ii) the provision for
                all taxes on income for such year, as contained in the financial
                statements audited by the Company's independent public accountants
                and reported by the Company in its annual report to shareholders for
                such year, and (iii) the amount of the Annual Incentive Pool for
                such year, as audited by the Company's independent public
                accountants and reported to the Committee as contemplated above. The
                term "net capital" for any year shall mean the arithmetic average of
                the amounts of the consolidated capital and surplus of the Company
                as at the beginning and the end of such year before (A) and (B)
                above, as such consolidated capital and surplus as of each such date
                is audited by the Company's independent public accountants and
                reported by the Company in its annual report to shareholders for the
                prior year (with respect to the consolidated capital and surplus as
                at the beginning of such year) and for such year (with respect to
                the consolidated capital and surplus as at the end of such year).
                The Annual Incentive Pool shall be an unfunded pool established for
                the purpose of measuring performance of the Company to determine
                compensation in connection with Awards. Unallocated amounts of
                hypothetical funding of the Annual Incentive Pool for a given fiscal
                year will not be added to the Annual Incentive Pool for a subsequent
                year.
    
                      (iii) Payout of Annual Incentive Awards. After the end of each
                performance period, the Committee shall determine the amount, if
                any, of the Annual Incentive Award for that performance period
                payable to each Participant. The Committee may, in its discretion,
                determine that the amount payable to any Participant as a final
                Annual Incentive Award shall be reduced from the amount of his or
                her potential Annual Incentive Award, including a determination to
                make no final Award whatsoever, but may not exercise discretion to
                increase any such amount. The Committee shall specify the
                circumstances in which an Annual Incentive Award shall be paid or
                forfeited in the event of termination of employment by the
                Participant or other event (including a Change in Control) prior to
                the end of a performance period or settlement of such Annual
                Incentive Award.
    
                (d)   Written Determinations. Determinations by the Committee as to
          the establishment of performance goals, the amount potentially payable in
          respect of Performance Awards and Annual Incentive Awards, the level of
          actual achievement of the
    
    
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          specified performance goals relating to Performance Awards and Annual
          Incentive Awards, the level of hypothetical funding of the Annual
          Incentive Pool and the amount of any final Performance Award and Annual
          Incentive Award shall be recorded in writing in the case of Performance
          Awards intended to qualify under Section 162(m). Specifically, the
          Committee shall certify in writing, in a manner conforming to applicable
          regulations under Section 162(m), prior to settlement of each such Award
          granted to a Covered Employee, that the performance objective relating to
          the Performance Award and other material terms of the Award upon which
          settlement of the Award was conditioned have been satisfied.
    
          8.    CERTAIN PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO AWARDS.
    
                (a)   Stand-Alone, Additional, Tandem, and Substitute Awards. Awards
          granted under the Plan may, in the discretion of the Committee, be granted
          either alone or in addition to, in tandem with, or in substitution or
          exchange for, any other Award or any award granted under another plan of
          the Company, any subsidiary or affiliate, or any business entity to be
          acquired by the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate, or any other right
          of a Participant to receive payment from the Company or any subsidiary or
          affiliate. Awards granted in addition to or in tandem with other Awards or
          awards may be granted either as of the same time as or a different time
          from the grant of such other Awards or awards. Subject to Section 11(k),
          the Committee may determine that, in granting a new Award, the
          in-the-money value of any surrendered Award or award may be applied to
          reduce the exercise price of any Option, grant price of any SAR, or
          purchase price of any other Award.
    
                (b)   Term of Awards. The term of each Award shall be for such
          period as may be determined by the Committee, subject to the express
          limitations set forth in Section 6(b)(ii).
    
                (c)   Form and Timing of Payment under Awards; Deferrals. Subject to
          the terms of the Plan (including Section 11(k)) and any applicable Award
          document, payments to be made by the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate
          upon the exercise of an Option or other Award or settlement of an Award
          may be made in such forms as the Committee shall determine, including,
          without limitation, cash, Stock, other Awards or other property, and may
          be made in a single payment or transfer, in installments, or on a deferred
          basis. The settlement of any Award may be accelerated, and cash paid in
          lieu of Stock in connection with such settlement, in the discretion of the
          Committee or upon occurrence of one or more specified events (subject to
          Section 11(k)). Installment or deferred payments may be required by the
          Committee (subject to Section 11(e)) or permitted at the election of the
          Participant on terms and conditions established by the Committee. Payments
          may include, without limitation, provisions for the payment or crediting
          of reasonable interest on installment or deferred payments or the grant or
          crediting of Dividend Equivalents or other amounts in respect of
          installment or deferred payments denominated in Stock.
    
                d)    Exemptions from Section 16(b) Liability. With respect to a
          Participant who is then subject to the reporting requirements of Section
          16(a) of the Exchange Act in respect of the Company, the Committee shall
          implement transactions under the Plan and administer the Plan in a manner
          that will ensure that each transaction with respect to such a Participant
          is exempt from liability under Rule 16b-3 or otherwise not subject to
          liability under Section 16(b)), except that this provision shall not limit
          sales by such a Participant, and such a Participant may engage in other
          non-exempt transactions under the Plan. The
    
    
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          Committee may authorize the Company to repurchase any Award or shares of
          Stock deliverable or delivered in connection with any Award (subject to
          Section 11(k)) in order to avoid a Participant who is subject to Section
          16 of the Exchange Act incurring liability under Section 16(b). Unless
          otherwise specified by the Participant, equity securities or derivative
          securities acquired under the Plan which are disposed of by a Participant
          shall be deemed to be disposed of in the order acquired by the
          Participant.
    
          9.    CHANGE IN CONTROL.
    
                (a)   Effect of "Change in Control" on Non-Performance Based Awards.
          In the event of a "Change in Control," the following provisions shall
          apply to non-performance based Awards, including Awards as to which
          performance conditions previously have been satisfied or are deemed
          satisfied under Section 9(b), unless otherwise provided by the Committee
          in the Award document:
    
                      (i)   All deferral of settlement, forfeiture conditions and
                other restrictions applicable to Awards granted under the Plan shall
                lapse and such Awards shall be fully payable as of the time of the
                Change in Control without regard to deferral and vesting conditions,
                except to the extent of any waiver by the Participant or other
                express election to defer beyond a Change in Control and subject to
                applicable restrictions set forth in Section 11(a);
    
                      (ii)  Any Award carrying a right to exercise that was not
                previously exercisable and vested shall become fully exercisable and
                vested as of the time of the Change in Control and shall remain
                exercisable and vested for the balance of the stated term of such
                Award without regard to any termination of employment or service by
                the Participant other than a termination for "cause" (as defined in
                any employment or severance agreement between the Company or a
                subsidiary or affiliate and the Participant then in effect or, if
                none, as defined by the Committee and in effect at the time of the
                Change in Control), subject only to applicable restrictions set
                forth in Section 11(a); and
    
                      (iii) The Committee may, in its discretion, determine to
                extend to any Participant who holds an Option the right to elect,
                during the 60-day period immediately following the Change in
                Control, in lieu of acquiring the shares of Stock covered by such
                Option, to receive in cash the excess of the Change in Control Price
                over the exercise price of such Option, multiplied by the number of
                shares of Stock covered by such Option, and to extend to any
                Participant who holds other types of Awards denominated in shares
                the right to elect, during the 60-day period immediately following
                the Change in Control, in lieu of receiving the shares of Stock
                covered by such Award, to receive in cash the Change in Control
                Price multiplied by the number of shares of Stock covered by such
                Award.
    
                (b)   Effect of "Change in Control" on Performance-Based Awards. In
          the event of a "Change in Control," with respect to an outstanding Award
          subject to achievement of performance goals and conditions, such
          performance goals and conditions shall be deemed to be met or exceeded if
          and to the extent so provided by the Committee in the Award document
          governing such Award or other agreement with the Participant.
    
    
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                (c)   Definition of "Change in Control." A "Change in Control" shall
          be deemed to have occurred if, after the Effective Date, there shall have
          occurred any of the following:
    
                      (i)   Any "person," as such term is used in Section 13(d) and
                14(d) of the Exchange Act (other than the Company, any trustee or
                other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of
                the Company, or any company owned, directly or indirectly, by the
                shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as
                their ownership of stock of the Company), acquires voting securities
                of the Company and immediately thereafter is a "40% Beneficial
                Owner." For purposes of this provision, a "40% Beneficial Owner"
                shall mean a person who is the "beneficial owner" (as defined in
                Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of
                securities of the Company representing 40% or more of the combined
                voting power of the Company's then-outstanding voting securities;
                provided, however, that the term "40% Beneficial Owner" shall not
                include any person who was a beneficial owner of outstanding voting
                securities of the Company at February 20, 1990, or any person or
                persons who was or becomes a fiduciary of any such person or persons
                who is, or in the aggregate, are a "40% Beneficial Owner" (an
                "Existing Shareholder"), including any group that may be formed
                which is comprised solely of Existing Shareholders, unless and until
                such time after February 20, 1990 as any such Existing Shareholder
                shall have become the beneficial owner (other than by means of a
                stock dividend, stock split, gift, inheritance or receipt or
                exercise of, or accrual of any right to exercise, a stock option
                granted by the Company or receipt or settlement of any other
                stock-related award granted by the Company) by purchase of any
                additional voting securities of the Company; and provided further,
                that the term "40% Beneficial Owner" shall not include any person
                who shall become the beneficial owner of 40% or more of the combined
                voting power of the Company's then-outstanding voting securities
                solely as a result of an acquisition by the Company of its voting
                securities, until such time thereafter as such person shall become
                the beneficial owner (other than by means of a stock dividend or
                stock split) of any additional voting securities and becomes a 40%
                Beneficial Owner in accordance with this Section 9(c)(i);
    
                      (ii)  Individuals who on September 1, 2000 constitute the
                Board, and any new director (other than a director whose initial
                assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened
                election consent, including but not limited to a consent
                solicitation, relating to the election of directors of the Company)
                whose election by the Board or nomination for election by the
                Company's shareholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds
                (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were
                directors on September 1, 2000 or whose election or nomination for
                election was previously so approved or recommended, cease for any
                reason to constitute at least a majority thereof;
    
                      (iii) There is consummated a merger, consolidation,
                recapitalization, or reorganization of the Company, or a reverse
                stock split of any class of voting securities of the Company, if,
                immediately following consummation of any of the foregoing, either
                (A) individuals who, immediately prior to such consummation,
                constitute the Board do not constitute at least a majority of the
                members of the board of directors of the Company or the surviving or
                parent entity, as the case may be, or (B) the voting securities of
                the Company outstanding immediately prior to such
    
    
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                recommendation do not represent (either by remaining outstanding or
                by being converted into voting securities of a surviving or parent
                entity) at least 60% or more of the combined voting power of the
                outstanding voting securities of the Company or such surviving or
                parent entity; or
    
                      (iv)  The shareholders of the Company have approved a plan of
                complete liquidation of the Company or there is consummated an
                agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or
                substantially all of the Company's assets (or any transaction have a
                similar effect).
    
                (d)   Definition of "Change in Control Price." The "Change in
          Control Price" means an amount in cash equal to the higher of (i) the
          amount of cash and fair market value of property that is the highest price
          per share paid (including extraordinary dividends) in any transaction
          triggering the Change in Control or any liquidation of shares following a
          sale of substantially all assets of the Company, or (ii) the highest Fair
          Market Value per share at any time during the 60-day period preceding and
          60-day period following the Change in Control.
    
          10.   ADDITIONAL AWARD FORFEITURE PROVISIONS.
    
                (a)   Forfeiture of Options and Other Awards and Gains Realized Upon
          Prior Option Exercises or Award Settlements. Unless otherwise determined
          by the Committee, each Award granted hereunder shall be subject to the
          following additional forfeiture conditions, to which the Participant, by
          accepting an Award hereunder, agrees. If any of the events specified in
          Section 10(b)(i), (ii), or (iii) occurs (a "Forfeiture Event"), all of the
          following forfeitures will result:
    
                      (i)   The unexercised portion of the Option, whether or not
                vested, and any other Award not then settled (except for an Award
                that has not been settled solely due to an elective deferral by the
                Participant and otherwise is not forfeitable in the event of any
                termination of service of the Participant) will be immediately
                forfeited and canceled upon the occurrence of the Forfeiture Event;
                and
    
                      (ii)  The Participant will be obligated to repay to the
                Company, in cash, within five business days after demand is made
                therefor by the Company, the total amount of Award Gain (as defined
                herein) realized by the Participant upon each exercise of an Option
                or settlement of an Award (regardless of any elective deferral) that
                occurred on or after (A) the date that is six months prior to the
                occurrence of the Forfeiture Event, if the Forfeiture Event occurred
                while the Participant was employed by the Company or a subsidiary or
                affiliate, or (B) the date that is six months prior to the date the
                Participant's employment by the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate
                terminated, if the Forfeiture Event occurred after the Participant
                ceased to be so employed. For purposes of this Section, the term
                "Award Gain" shall mean (i), in respect of a given Option exercise,
                the product of (X) the Fair Market Value per share of Stock at the
                date of such exercise (without regard to any subsequent change in
                the market price of shares) minus the exercise price times (Y) the
                number of shares as to which the Option was exercised at that date,
                and (ii), in respect of any other settlement of an Award granted to
                the Participant, the Fair Market Value of the cash or Stock paid or
                payable to Participant (regardless of any elective deferral) less
                any
    
    
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                cash or the Fair Market Value of any Stock or property (other than
                an Award or award which would have itself then been forfeitable
                hereunder and excluding any payment of tax withholding) paid by the
                Participant to the Company as a condition of or in connection such
                settlement.
    
                (b)   Events Triggering Forfeiture. The forfeitures specified in
          Section 10(a) will be triggered upon the occurrence of any one of the
          following Forfeiture Events at any time during the Participant's
          employment by the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate or during the
          one-year period following termination of such employment:
    
                      (i)   The Participant, acting alone or with others, directly
                or indirectly, prior to a Change in Control, (A) engages, either as
                employee, employer, consultant, advisor, or director, or as an
                owner, investor, partner, or shareholder unless the Participant's
                interest is insubstantial, in any business in an area or region in
                which the Company conducts business at the date the event occurs,
                which is directly in competition with a business then conducted by
                the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate; (B) induces any customer
                or supplier of the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate, or other
                company with which the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate has a
                business relationship, to curtail, cancel, not renew, or not
                continue his or her or its business with the Company or any
                subsidiary or affiliate; or (C) induces, or attempts to influence,
                any employee of or service provider to the Company or a subsidiary
                or affiliate to terminate such employment or service. The Committee
                shall, in its discretion, determine which lines of business the
                Company conducts on any particular date and which third parties may
                reasonably be deemed to be in competition with the Company. For
                purposes of this Section 10(b)(i), a Participant's interest as a
                shareholder is insubstantial if it represents beneficial ownership
                of less than five percent of the outstanding class of stock, and a
                Participant's interest as an owner, investor, or partner is
                insubstantial if it represents ownership, as determined by the
                Committee in its discretion, of less than five percent of the
                outstanding equity of the entity;
    
                      (ii)  The Participant discloses, uses, sells, or otherwise
                transfers, except in the course of employment with or other service
                to the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate, any confidential or
                proprietary information of the Company or any subsidiary or
                affiliate, including but not limited to information regarding the
                Company's current and potential customers, organization, employees,
                finances, and methods of operations and investments, so long as such
                information has not otherwise been disclosed to the public or is not
                otherwise in the public domain, except as required by law or
                pursuant to legal process, or the Participant makes statements or
                representations, or otherwise communicates, directly or indirectly,
                in writing, orally, or otherwise, or takes any other action which
                may, directly or indirectly, disparage or be damaging to the Company
                or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or their respective
                officers, directors, employees, advisors, businesses or reputations,
                except as required by law or pursuant to legal process; or
    
                      (iii) The Participant fails to cooperate with the Company or
                any subsidiary or affiliate by making himself or herself available
                to testify on behalf of the Company or such subsidiary or affiliate
                in any action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
                administrative, or investigative, or otherwise fails to assist the
                Company or any subsidiary or affiliate in any such action, suit, or
                proceeding by providing information
    
    
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                and meeting and consulting with members of management of, other
                representatives of, or counsel to, the Company or such subsidiary or
                affiliate, as reasonably requested.
    
                (c)   Agreement Does Not Prohibit Competition or Other Participant
          Activities. Although the conditions set forth in this Section 10 shall be
          deemed to be incorporated into an Award, a Participant is not thereby
          prohibited from engaging in any activity, including but not limited to
          competition with the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates. Rather,
          the non-occurrence of the Forfeiture Events set forth in Section 10(b) is
          a condition to the Participant's right to realize and retain value from
          his or her compensatory Options and Awards, and the consequence under the
          Plan if the Participant engages in an activity giving rise to any such
          Forfeiture Event are the forfeitures specified herein. The Company and the
          Participant shall not be precluded by this provision or otherwise from
          entering into other agreements concerning the subject matter of Section
          10(a) and 10(b).
    
                (d)   Committee Discretion. The Committee may, in its discretion,
          waive in whole or in part the Company's right to forfeiture under this
          Section, but no such waiver shall be effective unless evidenced by a
          writing signed by a duly authorized officer of the Company. In addition,
          the Committee may impose additional conditions on Awards, by inclusion of
          appropriate provisions in the document evidencing or governing any such
          Award.
    
          11.   GENERAL PROVISIONS.
    
                (a)   Compliance with Legal and Other Requirements. The Company may,
          to the extent deemed necessary or advisable by the Committee, postpone the
          issuance or delivery of Stock or payment of other benefits under any Award
          until completion of such registration or qualification of such Stock or
          other required action under any federal or state law, rule or regulation,
          listing or other required action with respect to any stock exchange or
          automated quotation system upon which the Stock or other securities of the
          Company are listed or quoted, or compliance with any other obligation of
          the Company, as the Committee may consider appropriate, and may require
          any Participant to make such representations, furnish such information and
          comply with or be subject to such other conditions as it may consider
          appropriate in connection with the issuance or delivery of Stock or
          payment of other benefits in compliance with applicable laws, rules, and
          regulations, listing requirements, or other obligations. The foregoing
          notwithstanding, in connection with a Change in Control, the Company shall
          take or cause to be taken no action, and shall undertake or permit to
          arise no legal or contractual obligation, that results or would result in
          any postponement of the issuance or delivery of Stock or payment of
          benefits under any Award or the imposition of any other conditions on such
          issuance, delivery or payment, to the extent that such postponement or
          other condition would represent a greater burden on a Participant than
          existed on the 90th day preceding the Change in Control.
    
                (b)   Limits on Transferability; Beneficiaries. No Award or other
          right or interest of a Participant under the Plan shall be pledged,
          hypothecated or otherwise encumbered or subject to any lien, obligation or
          liability of such Participant to any party (other than the Company or a
          subsidiary or affiliate thereof), or assigned or transferred by such
          Participant, and such Awards or rights that may be exercisable shall be
          exercised during the lifetime of the Participant only by the Participant
          or his or her guardian or legal
    
    
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          representative, except that (i) Awards and related rights shall be
          transferred to a Participant's Beneficiary or Beneficiaries upon the death
          of the Participant, and (ii) Awards and other rights (other than ISOs and
          SARs in tandem therewith) may be transferred to one or more Beneficiaries
          during the lifetime of the Participant, and rights thereunder may be
          exercised by such transferees in accordance with the terms of such Award,
          but only if and to the extent such transfers are then permitted by the
          Committee, subject to any terms and conditions which the Committee may
          impose thereon (including limitations the Committee may deem appropriate
          in order that offers and sales under the Plan will meet applicable
          requirements of registration forms under the Securities Act of 1933
          specified by the Securities and Exchange Commission). A Beneficiary or
          other person claiming any rights under the Plan from or through any
          Participant shall be subject to all terms and conditions of the Plan and
          any Award document applicable to such Participant, except as otherwise
          determined by the Committee, and to any additional terms and conditions
          deemed necessary or appropriate by the Committee.
    
                (c)   Adjustments. In the event that any large, special and
          non-recurring dividend or other distribution (whether in the form of cash
          or property other than Stock), recapitalization, forward or reverse split,
          Stock dividend, reorganization, merger, consolidation, spin-off,
          combination, repurchase, share exchange, liquidation, dissolution or other
          similar corporate transaction or event affects the Stock such that an
          adjustment is determined by the Committee to be appropriate under the
          Plan, then the Committee shall, in such manner as it may deem equitable,
          adjust any or all of (i) the number and kind of shares of Stock which may
          be delivered in connection with Awards granted thereafter, including all
          applicable limitations specified in Section 4(a), (ii) the number and kind
          of shares of Stock by which annual per-person Award limitations are
          measured under Section 5, (iii) the number and kind of shares of Stock
          subject to or deliverable in respect of outstanding Awards and (iv) the
          exercise price, grant price or purchase price relating to any Award or, if
          deemed appropriate, the Committee may make provision for a payment of cash
          or property to the holder of an outstanding Option (subject to Section
          11(k)). In addition, the Committee is authorized to make adjustments in
          the terms and conditions of, and the criteria included in, Awards
          (including Performance Awards and performance goals and any hypothetical
          funding pool relating thereto) in recognition of unusual or nonrecurring
          events (including, without limitation, events described in the preceding
          sentence, as well as acquisitions and dispositions of businesses and
          assets) affecting the Company, any subsidiary or affiliate or other
          business unit, or the financial statements of the Company or any
          subsidiary or affiliate, or in response to changes in applicable laws,
          regulations, accounting principles, tax rates and regulations or business
          conditions or in view of the Committee's assessment of the business
          strategy of the Company, any subsidiary or affiliate or business unit
          thereof, performance of comparable organizations, economic and business
          conditions, personal performance of a Participant, and any other
          circumstances deemed relevant; provided that no such adjustment shall be
          authorized or made if and to the extent that the existence of such
          authority (i) would cause Options, SARs, or Performance Awards granted
          under Section 8 to Participants designated by the Committee as Covered
          Employees and intended to qualify as "performance-based compensation"
          under Code Section 162(m) and regulations thereunder to otherwise fail to
          qualify as "performance-based compensation" under Code Section 162(m) and
          regulations thereunder, or (ii) would cause the Committee to be deemed to
          have authority to change the targets, within the meaning of Treasury
          Regulation 1.162-27(e)(4)(vi), under the performance goals relating to
          Options or SARs granted to Covered Employees and
    
    
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          intended to qualify as "performance-based compensation" under Code Section
          162(m) and regulations thereunder.
    
                (d)   Tax Provisions.
    
                      (i)   Withholding. The Company and any subsidiary or affiliate
                is authorized to withhold from any Award granted, any payment
                relating to an Award under the Plan, including from a distribution
                of Stock, or any payroll or other payment to a Participant, amounts
                of withholding and other taxes due or potentially payable in
                connection with any transaction involving an Award, and to take such
                other action as the Committee may deem advisable to enable the
                Company and Participants to satisfy obligations for the payment of
                withholding taxes and other tax obligations relating to any Award.
                This authority shall include authority to withhold or receive Stock
                or other property and to make cash payments in respect thereof in
                satisfaction of a Participant's withholding obligations, either on a
                mandatory or elective basis in the discretion of the Committee.
                Other provisions of the Plan notwithstanding, only the minimum
                amount of Stock deliverable in connection with an Award necessary to
                satisfy statutory withholding requirements will be withheld.
    
                      (ii)  Required Consent to and Notification of Code Section
                83(b) Election. No election under Section 83(b) of the Code (to
                include in gross income in the year of transfer the amounts
                specified in Code Section 83(b)) or under a similar provision of the
                laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States may be made unless
                expressly permitted by the terms of the Award document or by action
                of the Committee in writing prior to the making of such election. In
                any case in which a Participant is permitted to make such an
                election in connection with an Award, the Participant shall notify
                the Company of such election within ten days of filing notice of the
                election with the Internal Revenue Service or other governmental
                authority, in addition to any filing and notification required
                pursuant to regulations issued under Code Section 83(b) or other
                applicable provision.
    
                      (iii) Requirement of Notification Upon Disqualifying
                Disposition Under Code Section 421(b). If any Participant shall make
                any disposition of shares of Stock delivered pursuant to the
                exercise of an Incentive Stock Option under the circumstances
                described in Code Section 421(b) (relating to certain disqualifying
                dispositions), such Participant shall notify the Company of such
                disposition within ten days thereof.
    
                (e)   Changes to the Plan. The Board may amend, suspend or terminate
          the Plan or the Committee's authority to grant Awards under the Plan
          without the consent of shareholders or Participants; provided, however,
          that any amendment to the Plan shall be submitted to the Company's
          shareholders for approval not later than the earliest annual meeting for
          which the record date is after the date of such Board action if such
          shareholder approval is required by any federal or state law or regulation
          or the rules of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which
          the Stock may then be listed or quoted and the Board may otherwise, in its
          discretion, determine to submit other amendments to
    
    
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          the Plan to shareholders for approval; and provided further, that, without
          the consent of an affected Participant, no such Board action may
          materially and adversely affect the rights of such Participant under any
          outstanding Award. Without the approval of shareholders, the Committee
          will not amend or replace previously granted Options in a transaction that
          constitutes a "repricing," as such term is used in Instruction 3 to Item
          402(b)(2)(iv) of Regulation S-K, as promulgated by the Securities and
          Exchange Commission. The Committee shall have no authority to waive or
          modify any other Award term after the Award has been granted to the extent
          that the waived or modified term was mandatory under the Plan.
    
                (f)   Right of Setoff. The Company or any subsidiary or affiliate
          may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, deduct from and set off
          against any amounts the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate may owe to
          the Participant from time to time, including amounts payable in connection
          with any Award, owed as wages, fringe benefits, or other compensation owed
          to the Participant, such amounts as may be owed by the Participant to the
          Company, including but not limited to amounts owed under Section 10(a),
          although the Participant shall remain liable for any part of the
          Participant's payment obligation not satisfied through such deduction and
          setoff. By accepting any Award granted hereunder, the Participant agrees
          to any deduction or setoff under this Section 11(f).
    
                (g)   Unfunded Status of Awards; Creation of Trusts. The Plan is
          intended to constitute an "unfunded" plan for incentive and deferred
          compensation. With respect to any payments not yet made to a Participant
          or obligation to deliver Stock pursuant to an Award, nothing contained in
          the Plan or any Award shall give any such Participant any rights that are
          greater than those of a general creditor of the Company; provided that the
          Committee may authorize the creation of trusts and deposit therein cash,
          Stock, other Awards or other property, or make other arrangements to meet
          the Company's obligations under the Plan. Such trusts or other
          arrangements shall be consistent with the "unfunded" status of the Plan
          unless the Committee otherwise determines with the consent of each
          affected Participant.
    
                (h)   Nonexclusivity of the Plan. Neither the adoption of the Plan
          by the Board nor its submission to the shareholders of the Company for
          approval shall be construed as creating any limitations on the power of
          the Board or a committee thereof to adopt such other incentive
          arrangements, apart from the Plan, as it may deem desirable, including
          incentive arrangements and awards which do not qualify under Code Section
          162(m), and such other arrangements may be either applicable generally or
          only in specific cases.
    
                (i)   Payments in the Event of Forfeitures; Fractional Shares.
          Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, in the event of a forfeiture
          of an Award with respect to which a Participant paid cash consideration,
          the Participant shall be repaid the amount of such cash consideration. No
          fractional shares of Stock shall be issued or delivered pursuant to the
          Plan or any Award. The Committee shall determine whether cash, other
          Awards or other property shall be issued or paid in lieu of such
          fractional shares or whether such fractional shares or any rights thereto
          shall be forfeited or otherwise eliminated.
    
                (j)   Compliance with Code Section 162(m). It is the intent of the
          Company that Options and SARs granted to Covered Employees and other
          Awards designated as
    
    
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          Awards to Covered Employees subject to Section 7 shall constitute
          qualified "performance-based compensation" within the meaning of Code
          Section 162(m) and regulations thereunder, unless otherwise determined by
          the Committee at the time of allocation of an Award. Accordingly, the
          terms of Sections 7(b), (c), and (d), including the definitions of Covered
          Employee and other terms used therein, shall be interpreted in a manner
          consistent with Code Section 162(m) and regulations thereunder. The
          foregoing notwithstanding, because the Committee cannot determine with
          certainty whether a given Participant will be a Covered Employee with
          respect to a fiscal year that has not yet been completed, the term Covered
          Employee as used herein shall mean only a person designated by the
          Committee as likely to be a Covered Employee with respect to a specified
          fiscal year. If any provision of the Plan or any Award document relating
          to a Performance Award that is designated as intended to comply with Code
          Section 162(m) does not comply or is inconsistent with the requirements of
          Code Section 162(m) or regulations thereunder, such provision shall be
          construed or deemed amended to the extent necessary to conform to such
          requirements, and no provision shall be deemed to confer upon the
          Committee or any other person discretion to increase the amount of
          compensation otherwise payable in connection with any such Award upon
          attainment of the applicable performance objectives.
    
                (k)   Certain Limitations Relating to Accounting Treatment of
          Awards. Other provisions of the Plan notwithstanding, the Committee's
          authority under the Plan (including under Sections 8(c), 8(d), 11(c) and
          11(d)) is limited to the extent necessary to ensure that any Option or
          other Award of a type that the Committee has intended to be subject to
          fixed accounting with a measurement date at the date of grant or the date
          performance conditions are satisfied under APB 25 shall not become subject
          to "variable" accounting solely due to the existence of such authority,
          unless the Committee specifically determines that the Award shall remain
          outstanding despite such "variable" accounting. In addition, other
          provisions of the Plan notwithstanding, (i) if any right under this Plan
          would cause a transaction to be ineligible for pooling-of-interests
          accounting that would, but for the right hereunder, be eligible for such
          accounting treatment, such right shall be automatically adjusted so that
          pooling-of-interests accounting shall be available, including by
          substituting Stock or cash having a Fair Market Value equal to any cash or
          Stock otherwise payable in respect of any right to cash which would cause
          the transaction to be ineligible for pooling-of-interests accounting, and
          (ii) if any authority under Section 9(c) would cause a transaction to be
          ineligible for pooling-of-interests accounting that would, but for such
          authority, be eligible for such accounting treatment, such authority shall
          be limited to the extent necessary so that such transaction would be
          eligible for pooling-of-interests accounting.
    
                (l)   Governing Law. The validity, construction, and effect of the
          Plan, any rules and regulations relating to the Plan and any Award
          document shall be determined in accordance with the laws of the State of
          New York, without giving effect to principles of conflicts of laws, and
          applicable provisions of federal law.
    
                (m)   Awards to Participants Outside the United States. The
          Committee may modify the terms of any Award under the Plan made to or held
          by a Participant who is then resident or primarily employed outside of the
          United States in any manner deemed by the Committee to be necessary or
          appropriate in order that such Award shall conform to laws, regulations,
          and customs of the country in which the Participant is then resident or
          primarily
    
    
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          employed, or so that the value and other benefits of the Award to the
          Participant, as affected by foreign tax laws and other restrictions
          applicable as a result of the Participant's residence or employment abroad
          shall be comparable to the value of such an Award to a Participant who is
          resident or primarily employed in the United States. An Award may be
          modified under this Section 11(m) in a manner that is inconsistent with
          the express terms of the Plan, so long as such modifications will not
          contravene any applicable law or regulation or result in actual liability
          under Section 16(b) for the Participant whose Award is modified.
    
                (n)   Limitation on Rights Conferred under Plan. Neither the Plan
          nor any action taken hereunder shall be construed as (i) giving any
          Eligible Person or Participant the right to continue as an Eligible Person
          or Participant or in the employ or service of the Company or a subsidiary
          or affiliate, (ii) interfering in any way with the right of the Company or
          a subsidiary or affiliate to terminate any Eligible Person's or
          Participant's employment or service at any time, (iii) giving an Eligible
          Person or Participant any claim to be granted any Award under the Plan or
          to be treated uniformly with other Participants and employees, or (iv)
          conferring on a Participant any of the rights of a shareholder of the
          Company unless and until the Participant is duly issued or transferred
          shares of Stock in accordance with the terms of an Award or an Option is
          duly exercised. Except as expressly provided in the Plan and an Award
          document, neither the Plan nor any Award document shall confer on any
          person other than the Company and the Participant any rights or remedies
          thereunder.
    
                (o)   Severability; Entire Agreement. If any of the provisions of
          this Plan or any Award document is finally held to be invalid, illegal or
          unenforceable (whether in whole or in part), such provision shall be
          deemed modified to the extent, but only to the extent, of such invalidity,
          illegality or unenforceability, and the remaining provisions shall not be
          affected thereby; provided, that, if any of such provisions is finally
          held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable because it exceeds the
          maximum scope determined to be acceptable to permit such provision to be
          enforceable, such provision shall be deemed to be modified to the minimum
          extent necessary to modify such scope in order to make such provision
          enforceable hereunder. The Plan and any Award documents contain the entire
          agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter thereof and
          supersede all prior agreements, promises, covenants, arrangements,
          communications, representations and warranties between them, whether
          written or oral with respect to the subject matter thereof.
    
                (p)   Plan Effective Date and Termination. The Plan shall become
          effective if, and at such time as, the shareholders of the Company have
          approved it by the affirmative votes of the holders of a majority of the
          voting securities of the Company present, or represented, and entitled to
          vote on the subject matter at a duly held meeting of shareholders. Unless
          earlier terminated by action of the Board of Directors, the Plan will
          remain in effect until such time as no Stock remains available for
          delivery under the Plan and the Company has no further rights or
          obligations under the Plan with respect to outstanding Awards under the
          Plan.
    
    
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                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
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                           2000 SUPPLEMENTAL STOCK AWARD PLAN
                        AS AMENDED AND RESTATED NOVEMBER 8, 2004
    
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                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
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                           2000 SUPPLEMENTAL STOCK AWARD PLAN
                        AS AMENDED AND RESTATED NOVEMBER 8, 2004
    
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    1.      Purpose ........................................................     1
    
    2.      Definitions ....................................................     1
    
    3.      Administration .................................................     2
    
    4.      Stock Subject to Plan ..........................................     3
    
    5.      Eligibility ....................................................     3
    
    6.      Specific Terms of Awards .......................................     4
    
    7.      Certain Provisions Applicable to Awards ........................     7
    
    8.      Change in Control ..............................................     7
    
    9.      Additional Award Forfeiture Provisions .........................    10
    
    10.     General Provisions .............................................    12
    
    
    
    
                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
                           2000 SUPPLEMENTAL STOCK AWARD PLAN
                        AS AMENDED AND RESTATED NOVEMBER 8, 2004
    
          1.    PURPOSE. The purpose of this 2000 Supplemental Stock Award Plan (the
    "Plan") is to aid International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., a New York
    corporation (the "Company"), in attracting, retaining, motivating and rewarding
    employees, other than executive officers and directors of the Company, and
    certain other persons who provide substantial services to the Company or its
    subsidiaries or affiliates, to provide for equitable and competitive
    compensation opportunities, to recognize individual contributions and reward
    achievement of Company goals, and promote the creation of long-term value for
    shareholders by closely aligning the interests of Participants with those of
    shareholders. The Plan authorizes stock-based incentives for Participants.
    
          2.    DEFINITIONS. In addition to the terms defined in Section 1 above and
    elsewhere in the Plan, the following capitalized terms used in the Plan have the
    respective meanings set forth in this Section:
    
                (a)   "Award" means any Option, SAR, Restricted Stock, Deferred
          Stock, Stock granted as a bonus or in lieu of another award, Dividend
          Equivalent, Other Stock-Based Award, or Performance Award, together with
          any related right or interest, granted to a Participant under the Plan.
    
                (b)   "Beneficiary" means any family member or members, including by
          marriage or adoption, any trust in which the Participant or any family
          member or members have more than 50% of the beneficial interest, and any
          other entity in which the Participant or any family member or members own
          more than 50% of the voting interests, in each case designated by the
          Participant in his most recent written Beneficiary designation filed with
          the Committee as entitled to exercise rights or receive benefits in
          connection with the Award (or any portion thereof), or if there is no
          surviving designated Beneficiary, then the person, persons, trust or
          trusts entitled by will or the laws of descent and distribution to
          exercise rights or receive benefits in connection with the Award on behalf
          or in lieu of such non-surviving designated Beneficiary.
    
                (c)   "Board" means the Company's Board of Directors.
    
                (d)   "Change in Control" and related terms have the meanings
          specified in Section 8.
    
                (e)   "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
          References to any provision of the Code or regulation (including a
          proposed regulation) thereunder shall include any successor provisions and
          regulations.
    
                (f)   "Committee" means a committee of two or more directors
          designated by the Board to administer the Plan; provided, however, that,
          directors appointed or serving as members of a Board committee designated
          as the Committee shall not be employees of the Company or any subsidiary
          or affiliate. The full Board may perform any function of the Committee
          hereunder, and the Committee may delegate authority as provided in Section
          3(b), in which case the term "Committee" shall refer to the Board or such
          delegee.
    
                (g)   "Deferred Stock" means a right, granted to a Participant under
          Section 6(e), to receive Stock or other Awards or a combination thereof at
          the end of a specified deferral period. Such Awards may be denominated as
          "Restricted Stock Units" as well.
    
    
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                (h)   "Dividend Equivalent" means a right, granted to a Participant
          under Section 6(g), to receive cash, Stock, other Awards or other property
          equal in value to all or a specified portion of the dividends paid with
          respect to a specified number of shares of Stock.
    
                (i)   "Effective Date" means the effective date specified in Section
          10(o).
    
                (j)   "Eligible Person" has the meaning specified in Section 5.
    
                (k)   "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
          amended. References to any provision of the Exchange Act or rule
          (including a proposed rule) thereunder shall include any successor
          provisions and rules.
    
                (l)   "Fair Market Value" means the fair market value of Stock,
          Awards or other property as determined by the Committee or under
          procedures established by the Committee. Unless otherwise determined by
          the Committee, the Fair Market Value of Stock shall be the closing sale
          price reported on the composite tape of the New York Stock Exchange on the
          day as of which such value is being determined or, if there is no sale on
          that day, then on the last previous day on which a sale was reported.
    
                (m)   "Option" means a right, granted to a Participant under Section
          6(b), to purchase Stock or other Awards at a specified price during
          specified time periods.
    
                (n)   "Other Stock-Based Awards" means Awards granted to a
          Participant under Section 6(h).
    
                (o)   "Participant" means a person who has been granted an Award
          under the Plan which remains outstanding, including a person who is no
          longer an Eligible Person.
    
                (p)   "Performance Award" means a conditional right, granted to a
          Participant under Section 6(i), to receive Stock or other Awards or
          payments, as determined by the Committee, based upon performance criteria
          specified by the Committee.
    
                (q)   "Restricted Stock" means Stock granted to a Participant under
          Section 6(d) which is subject to certain restrictions and to a risk of
          forfeiture.
    
                (r)   "Stock" means the Company's Common Stock, and any other equity
          securities of the Company that may be substituted or resubstituted for
          Stock pursuant to Section 10(c).
    
                (s)   "Stock Appreciation Rights" or "SAR" means a right granted to
          a Participant under Section 6(c).
    
          3.    ADMINISTRATION.
    
                (a)   Authority of the Committee. The Plan shall be administered by
          the Committee, which shall have full and final authority, in each case
          subject to and consistent with the provisions of the Plan, to select
          Eligible Persons to become Participants; to grant Awards; to determine the
          type and number of Awards, the dates on which Awards may be exercised and
          on which the risk of forfeiture or deferral period relating to Awards
          shall lapse or terminate, the acceleration of any such dates, the
          expiration date of any Award, whether, to what extent, and under what
          circumstances an Award may be settled, or the exercise price of an Award
          may be paid, in cash, Stock, other Awards, or other property, and other
          terms and conditions of, and all other matters relating to, Awards; to
          prescribe documents evidencing or setting terms of Awards (such Award
          documents need not be identical for each Participant), amendments thereto,
          and rules and regulations for the administration of the Plan and
          amendments thereto; to construe and interpret the Plan and Award documents
          and correct
    
    
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          defects, supply omissions or reconcile inconsistencies therein; and to
          make all other decisions and determinations as the Committee may deem
          necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan. Decisions of
          the Committee with respect to the administration and interpretation of the
          Plan shall be final, conclusive, and binding upon all persons interested
          in the Plan, including Participants, Beneficiaries, transferees under
          Section 10(b) and other persons claiming rights from or through a
          Participant, and shareholders.
    
                (b)   Manner of Exercise of Committee Authority. The Committee may
          delegate to officers or managers of the Company or any subsidiary or
          affiliate, or committees thereof, the authority, subject to such terms as
          the Committee shall determine, to perform such functions, including
          administrative functions, as the Committee may determine. The express
          grant of any specific power to the Committee, and the taking of any action
          by the Committee, shall not be construed as limiting any power or
          authority of the Committee.
    
                (c)   Limitation of Liability. The Committee and each member
          thereof, and any person acting pursuant to authority delegated by the
          Committee, shall be entitled, in good faith, to rely or act upon any
          report or other information furnished by any executive officer, other
          officer or employee of the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate, the
          Company's independent auditors, consultants or any other agents assisting
          in the administration of the Plan. Members of the Committee, any person
          acting pursuant to authority delegated by the Committee, and any officer
          or employee of the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate acting at the
          direction or on behalf of the Committee or a delegee shall not be
          personally liable for any action or determination taken or made in good
          faith with respect to the Plan, and shall, to the extent permitted by law,
          be fully indemnified and protected by the Company with respect to any such
          action or determination.
    
          4.    STOCK SUBJECT TO PLAN.
    
                (a)   Overall Number of Shares Available for Delivery. Subject to
          adjustment as provided in Section 10(c), the total number of shares of
          Stock reserved and available for delivery in connection with Awards under
          the Plan shall be 4,500,000 shares; provided, however, that the total
          number of shares which may be issued and delivered in connection with
          Awards other than Options and SARs shall not exceed 100,000. Any shares of
          Stock delivered under the Plan shall consist of authorized and unissued
          shares, unless the Company's General Counsel determines that treasury
          shares shall be delivered under the Plan.
    
                (b)   Share Counting Rules. The Committee may adopt reasonable
          counting procedures to ensure appropriate counting, avoid double counting
          (as, for example, in the case of tandem or substitute awards) and make
          adjustments if the number of shares of Stock actually delivered differs
          from the number of shares previously counted in connection with an Award;
          provided, however, that shares withheld in payment of taxes upon vesting
          of Restricted Stock and shares equal to the number of outstanding shares
          surrendered in payment of the exercise price or taxes relating to an Award
          shall not become available again under the Plan if the withholding or
          surrender transaction occurs more than ten years after the date of
          adoption of the Plan, and otherwise shares shall not become available
          under this Section 4(b) in an event that would constitute a "material
          revision" of the Plan subject to shareholder approval under then
          applicable rules of the New York Stock Exchange. Shares subject to an
          Award that is canceled, expired, forfeited, settled in cash or otherwise
          terminated without a delivery of shares to the Participant will again be
          available for Awards, and shares withheld in payment of the exercise price
          or taxes relating to an Award and shares equal to the number surrendered
          in payment of any exercise price or taxes relating to an Award shall be
          deemed to constitute shares not delivered to the Participant and shall be
          deemed to again be available for Awards under the Plan. In addition, in
          the case of any Award granted in substitution for an award of a company or
          business acquired by the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate, shares
          issued or issuable in connection with such substitute Award shall not be
          counted against the number of shares reserved under the Plan, but shall be
          available under the Plan by virtue of the Company's assumption of the
    
    
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          plan or arrangement of the acquired company or business.
    
          5.    ELIGIBILITY. Awards may be granted under the Plan only to Eligible
    Persons. For purposes of the Plan, an "Eligible Person" means a person who is
    not an executive officer or director of the Company but who is an employee of
    the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate, a consultant or other person who
    provides substantial services to the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate, or a
    person who has been offered employment by the Company or a subsidiary or
    affiliate, provided that such prospective employee or consultant or other person
    may not receive any payment or exercise any right relating to an Award until
    such person has commenced employment with or providing of services to the
    Company or a subsidiary or affiliate. An employee on leave of absence may be
    considered as still in the employ of the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate
    for purposes of eligibility for participation in the Plan. For purposes of the
    Plan, a joint venture in which the Company or a subsidiary has a substantial
    direct or indirect equity investment shall be deemed an affiliate, if so
    determined by the Committee.
    
          6.    SPECIFIC TERMS OF AWARDS.
    
                (a)   General. Awards may be granted on the terms and conditions set
          forth in this Section 6. In addition, the Committee may impose on any
          Award or the exercise thereof, at the date of grant or thereafter (subject
          to Section 10(e)), such additional terms and conditions, not inconsistent
          with the provisions of the Plan, as the Committee shall determine,
          including terms requiring forfeiture of Awards in the event of termination
          of employment or service by the Participant and terms permitting a
          Participant to make elections relating to his or her Award. The Committee
          shall retain full power and discretion with respect to any term or
          condition of an Award that is not mandatory under the Plan. The Committee
          shall require the payment of lawful consideration for an Award to the
          extent necessary to satisfy the requirements of the New York Business
          Corporation Law, and may otherwise require payment of consideration for an
          Award except as limited by the Plan.
    
                (b)   Options. The Committee is authorized to grant Options to
          Participants on the following terms and conditions:
    
                      (i)   Exercise Price. The exercise price per share of Stock
                purchasable under an Option shall be determined by the Committee,
                provided that such exercise price shall be not less than the Fair
                Market Value of a share of Stock on the date of grant of such
                Option, subject to Sections 6(f) and 7(a).
    
                      (ii)  Option Term; Time and Method of Exercise. The Committee
                shall determine the term of each Option. The Committee shall
                determine the time or times at which or the circumstances under
                which an Option may be exercised in whole or in part (including
                based on achievement of performance goals and/or future service
                requirements), the methods by which such exercise price may be paid
                or deemed to be paid and the form of such payment (subject to
                Section 10(j)), including, without limitation, cash, Stock, other
                Awards or awards granted under other plans of the Company or any
                subsidiary or affiliate, or other property (including through
                "cashless exercise" arrangements, to the extent permitted by
                applicable law, but excluding any exercise method in which a
                personal loan would be made from the Company to the Participant),
                and the methods by or forms in which Stock will be delivered or
                deemed to be delivered in satisfaction of Options to Participants
                (including deferred delivery of shares representing the Option
                "profit," at the election of the Participant or as mandated by the
                Committee, with such deferred shares subject to any vesting,
                forfeiture or other terms as the Committee may specify).
    
                (c)   Stock Appreciation Rights. The Committee is authorized to
          grant SAR's to Participants on the following terms and conditions:
    
                      (i)   Right to Payment. An SAR shall confer on the Participant
                to whom it is granted a right to receive, upon exercise thereof, the
                excess of (A) the Fair Market Value of one share of Stock on the
    
    
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                date of exercise (or, in the case of a "Limited SAR," the Fair
                Market Value determined by reference to the Change in Control Price,
                as defined under Section 8(d) hereof) over (B) the grant price of
                the SAR as determined by the Committee.
    
                      (ii)  Other Terms. The Committee shall determine at the date
                of grant or thereafter, the time or times at which and the
                circumstances under which a SAR may be exercised in whole or in part
                (including based on achievement of performance goals and/or future
                service requirements), the method of exercise, method of settlement,
                form of consideration payable in settlement, method by or forms in
                which Stock will be delivered or deemed to be delivered to
                Participants, and whether or not a SAR shall be free-standing or in
                tandem or combination with any other Award. Limited SARs that may
                only be exercised in connection with a Change in Control or other
                event as specified by the Committee may be granted on such terms,
                not inconsistent with this Section 6(c), as the Committee may
                determine.
    
                (d)   Restricted Stock. The Committee is authorized to grant
          Restricted Stock to Participants on the following terms and conditions:
    
                      (i)   Grant and Restrictions. Restricted Stock shall be
                subject to such restrictions on transferability, risk of forfeiture
                and other restrictions, if any, as the Committee may impose, which
                restrictions may lapse separately or in combination at such times,
                under such circumstances (including based on achievement of
                performance goals and/or future service requirements), in such
                installments or otherwise and under such other circumstances as the
                Committee may determine at the date of grant or thereafter. Except
                to the extent restricted under the terms of the Plan and any Award
                document relating to the Restricted Stock, a Participant granted
                Restricted Stock shall have all of the rights of a shareholder,
                including the right to vote the Restricted Stock and the right to
                receive dividends thereon (subject to any mandatory reinvestment or
                other requirement imposed by the Committee).
    
                      (ii)  Forfeiture. Except as otherwise determined by the
                Committee, upon termination of employment or service during the
                applicable restriction period, Restricted Stock that is at that time
                subject to restrictions shall be forfeited and reacquired by the
                Company; provided that the Committee may provide, by rule or
                regulation or in any Award document, or may determine in any
                individual case, that restrictions or forfeiture conditions relating
                to Restricted Stock will lapse in whole or in part, including in the
                event of terminations resulting from specified causes.
    
                      (iii) Certificates for Stock. Restricted Stock granted under
                the Plan may be evidenced in such manner as the Committee shall
                determine. If certificates representing Restricted Stock are
                registered in the name of the Participant, the Committee may require
                that such certificates bear an appropriate legend referring to the
                terms, conditions and restrictions applicable to such Restricted
                Stock, that the Company retain physical possession of the
                certificates, and that the Participant deliver a stock power to the
                Company, endorsed in blank, relating to the Restricted Stock.
    
                      (iv)  Dividends and Splits. As a condition to the grant of an
                Award of Restricted Stock, the Committee may require that any
                dividends paid on a share of Restricted Stock shall be either (A)
                paid with respect to such Restricted Stock at the dividend payment
                date in cash, in kind, or in a number of shares of unrestricted
                Stock having a Fair Market Value equal to the amount of such
                dividends, or (B) automatically reinvested in additional Restricted
                Stock or held in kind, which shall be subject to the same terms as
                applied to the original Restricted Stock to which it relates, or (C)
                deferred as to payment, either as a cash deferral or with the amount
                or value thereof automatically deemed reinvested in shares of
                Deferred Stock, other Awards or other investment vehicles, subject
                to such terms as the Committee shall determine or permit a
                Participant to elect. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee,
                Stock distributed in connection with a Stock split or Stock
                dividend, and other property distributed as a dividend, shall be
                subject to restrictions and a risk of forfeiture to
    
    
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                the same extent as the Restricted Stock with respect to which such
                Stock or other property has been distributed.
    
                (e)   Deferred Stock. The Committee is authorized to grant Deferred
          Stock to Participants, which are rights to receive Stock, other Awards, or
          a combination thereof at the end of a specified deferral period, subject
          to the following terms and conditions:
    
                      (i)   Award and Restrictions. Issuance of Stock will occur
                upon expiration of the deferral period specified for an Award of
                Deferred Stock by the Committee (or, if permitted by the Committee,
                as elected by the Participant). In addition, Deferred Stock shall be
                subject to such restrictions on transferability, risk of forfeiture
                and other restrictions, if any, as the Committee may impose, which
                restrictions may lapse at the expiration of the deferral period or
                at earlier specified times (including based on achievement of
                performance goals and/or future service requirements), separately or
                in combination, in installments or otherwise, and under such other
                circumstances as the Committee may determine at the date of grant or
                thereafter. Deferred Stock may be satisfied by delivery of Stock,
                other Awards, or a combination thereof (subject to Section 10(j)),
                as determined by the Committee at the date of grant or thereafter.
    
                      (ii)  Forfeiture. Except as otherwise determined by the
                Committee, upon termination of employment or service during the
                applicable deferral period or portion thereof to which forfeiture
                conditions apply (as provided in the Award document evidencing the
                Deferred Stock), all Deferred Stock that is at that time subject to
                such forfeiture conditions shall be forfeited; provided that the
                Committee may provide, by rule or regulation or in any Award
                document, or may determine in any individual case, that restrictions
                or forfeiture conditions relating to Deferred Stock will lapse in
                whole or in part, including in the event of terminations resulting
                from specified causes.
    
                      (iii) Dividend Equivalents. Unless otherwise determined by the
                Committee, Dividend Equivalents on the specified number of shares of
                Stock covered by an Award of Deferred Stock shall be either (A) paid
                with respect to such Deferred Stock at the dividend payment date in
                cash or in shares of unrestricted Stock having a Fair Market Value
                equal to the amount of such dividends, or (B) deferred with respect
                to such Deferred Stock, either as a cash deferral or with the amount
                or value thereof automatically deemed reinvested in additional
                Deferred Stock, other Awards or other investment vehicles having a
                Fair Market Value equal to the amount of such dividends, as the
                Committee shall determine or permit a Participant to elect.
    
                (f)   Bonus Stock and Awards in Lieu of Obligations. The Committee
          is authorized to grant Stock as a bonus, or to grant Stock or other Awards
          in lieu of obligations of the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate to pay
          cash or deliver other property under the Plan or under other plans or
          compensatory arrangements, subject to such terms as shall be determined by
          the Committee.
    
                (g)   Dividend Equivalents. The Committee is authorized to grant
          Dividend Equivalents to a Participant, entitling the Participant to
          receive cash, Stock, other Awards, or other property equivalent to all or
          a portion of the dividends paid with respect to a specified number of
          shares of Stock. Dividend Equivalents may be awarded on a free-standing
          basis or in connection with another Award. The Committee may provide that
          Dividend Equivalents shall be paid or distributed when accrued or shall be
          deemed to have been reinvested in additional Stock, Awards, or other
          investment vehicles, and subject to restrictions on transferability, risks
          of forfeiture and such other terms as the Committee may specify.
    
                (h)   Other Stock-Based Awards. The Committee is authorized, subject
          to limitations under applicable law, to grant to Participants such other
          Awards that may be denominated or payable in, valued in whole or in part
          by reference to, or otherwise based on, or related to, Stock or factors
          that may influence the value of Stock, including, without limitation,
          convertible or exchangeable debt securities, other rights convertible or
          exchangeable into Stock, purchase rights for Stock, Awards with value and
          payment contingent upon performance of the Company or business units
          thereof or any other factors designated by
    
    
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          the Committee, and Awards valued by reference to the book value of Stock
          or the value of securities of or the performance of specified subsidiaries
          or affiliates or other business units. The Committee shall determine the
          terms and conditions of such Awards. Stock delivered pursuant to an Award
          in the nature of a purchase right granted under this Section 6(h) shall be
          purchased for such consideration, paid for at such times, by such methods,
          and in such forms, including, without limitation, cash, Stock, other
          Awards, notes, or other property, as the Committee shall determine. Cash
          awards, as an element of or supplement to any other Award under the Plan,
          may also be granted pursuant to this Section 6(h).
    
                (i)   Performance Awards. The Committee is authorized to grant
          Performance Awards to Participants. Performance Awards may be denominated
          as a number of shares of Stock, shares of Stock having a specified cash
          value at a future date, or a number of other Awards (or a combination)
          which may be earned upon achievement or satisfaction of performance
          conditions specified by the Committee. In addition, the Committee may
          specify that any other Award shall constitute a Performance Award by
          conditioning the right of a Participant to exercise the Award or have it
          settled, and the timing thereof, upon achievement or satisfaction of such
          performance conditions as may be specified by the Committee. The Committee
          may use such business criteria and other measures of performance as it may
          deem appropriate in establishing any performance conditions, and may
          exercise its discretion to reduce or increase the amounts payable under
          any Award subject to performance conditions.
    
          7.    CERTAIN PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO AWARDS.
    
                (a)   Stand-Alone, Additional, Tandem, and Substitute Awards. Awards
          granted under the Plan may, in the discretion of the Committee, be granted
          either alone or in addition to, in tandem with, or in substitution or
          exchange for, any other Award or any award granted under another plan of
          the Company, any subsidiary or affiliate, or any business entity to be
          acquired by the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate, or any other right
          of a Participant to receive payment from the Company or any subsidiary or
          affiliate. Awards granted in addition to or in tandem with other Awards or
          awards may be granted either as of the same time as or a different time
          from the grant of such other Awards or awards. Subject to Section 10(j),
          the Committee may determine that, in granting a new Award, the
          in-the-money value or other value of any surrendered Award or award may be
          applied to reduce the exercise price of any Option, grant price of any
          SAR, or purchase price of any other Award.
    
                (b)   Term of Awards. The term of each Award shall be for such
          period as may be determined by the Committee.
    
                (c)   Form and Timing of Payment under Awards; Deferrals. Subject to
          the terms of the Plan (including Section 10(j)) and any applicable Award
          document, payments to be made by the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate
          upon the exercise of an Option or other Award or settlement of an Award
          may be made in such forms as the Committee shall determine, including,
          without limitation, cash, Stock, other Awards or other property, and may
          be made in a single payment or transfer, in installments, or on a deferred
          basis. The settlement of any Award may be accelerated, and cash paid in
          lieu of Stock in connection with such settlement, in the discretion of the
          Committee or upon occurrence of one or more specified events (subject to
          Section 10(j)). Installment or deferred payments may be required by the
          Committee (subject to Section 10(e)) or permitted at the election of the
          Participant on terms and conditions established by the Committee. Payments
          may include, without limitation, provisions for the payment or crediting
          of reasonable interest on installment or deferred payments or the grant or
          crediting of Dividend Equivalents or other amounts in respect of
          installment or deferred payments denominated in Stock.
    
          8.    CHANGE IN CONTROL.
    
                (a)   Effect of "Change in Control" on Non-Performance Based Awards.
          In the event of a "Change in Control," the following provisions shall
          apply to non-performance based Awards, including Awards as to
    
    
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          which performance conditions previously have been satisfied or are deemed
          satisfied under Section 8(b), unless otherwise provided by the Committee
          in the Award document:
    
                      (i)   All deferral of settlement, forfeiture conditions and
                other restrictions applicable to Awards granted under the Plan shall
                lapse and such Awards shall be fully payable as of the time of the
                Change in Control without regard to deferral and vesting conditions,
                except to the extent of any waiver by the Participant or other
                express election to defer beyond a Change in Control and subject to
                applicable restrictions set forth in Section 10(a);
    
                      (ii)  Any Award carrying a right to exercise that was not
                previously exercisable and vested shall become fully exercisable and
                vested as of the time of the Change in Control and shall remain
                exercisable and vested for the balance of the stated term of such
                Award without regard to any termination of employment or service by
                the Participant other than a termination for "cause" (as defined in
                any employment or severance agreement between the Company or a
                subsidiary or affiliate and the Participant then in effect or, if
                none, as defined by the Committee and in effect at the time of the
                Change in Control), subject only to applicable restrictions set
                forth in Section 10(a); and
    
                      (iii) The Committee may, in its discretion, determine to
                extend to any Participant who holds an Option the right to elect,
                during the 60-day period immediately following the Change in
                Control, in lieu of acquiring the shares of Stock covered by such
                Option, to receive in cash the excess of the Change in Control Price
                over the exercise price of such Option, multiplied by the number of
                shares of Stock covered by such Option, and to extend to any
                Participant who holds other types of Awards denominated in shares
                the right to elect, during the 60-day period immediately following
                the Change in Control, in lieu of receiving the shares of Stock
                covered by such Award, to receive in cash the Change in Control
                Price multiplied by the number of shares of Stock covered by such
                Award.
    
                (b)   Effect of "Change in Control" on Performance-Based Awards. In
          the event of a "Change in Control," with respect to an outstanding Award
          subject to achievement of performance goals and conditions, such
          performance goals and conditions shall be deemed to be met or exceeded if
          and to the extent so provided by the Committee in the Award document
          governing such Award or other agreement with the Participant.
    
                (c)   Definition of "Change in Control." A "Change in Control" shall
          be deemed to have occurred if, after the Effective Date, there shall have
          occurred any of the following:
    
                      (i)   Any "person," as such term is used in Section 13(d) and
                14(d) of the Exchange Act (other than the Company, any trustee or
                other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of
                the Company, or any company owned, directly or indirectly, by the
                shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as
                their ownership of stock of the Company), acquires voting securities
                of the Company and immediately thereafter is a "40% Beneficial
                Owner." For purposes of this provision, a "40% Beneficial Owner"
                shall mean a person who is the "beneficial owner" (as defined in
                Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of
                securities of the Company representing 40% or more of the combined
                voting power of the Company's then-outstanding voting securities;
                provided, however, that the term "40% Beneficial Owner" shall not
                include any person who was a beneficial owner of outstanding voting
                securities of the Company at February 20, 1990, or any person or
                persons who was or becomes a fiduciary of any such person or persons
                who is, or in the aggregate, are a "40% Beneficial Owner" (an
                "Existing Shareholder"), including any group that may be formed
                which is comprised solely of Existing Shareholders, unless and until
                such time after February 20, 1990 as any such Existing Shareholder
                shall have become the beneficial owner (other than by means of a
                stock dividend, stock split, gift, inheritance or receipt or
                exercise of, or accrual of any right to exercise, a stock option
                granted by the Company or receipt or settlement of any other
                stock-related award granted by the Company) by purchase of any
                additional voting securities of the Company; and provided further,
                that the term "40% Beneficial Owner" shall not include any person
                who shall become the beneficial owner of 40% or more of the combined
    
    
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                voting power of the Company's then-outstanding voting securities
                solely as a result of an acquisition by the Company of its voting
                securities, until such time thereafter as such person shall become
                the beneficial owner (other than by means of a stock dividend or
                stock split) of any additional voting securities and becomes a 40%
                Beneficial Owner in accordance with this Section 8(c)(i);
    
                      (ii)  Individuals who on September 1, 2000 constitute the
                Board, and any new director (other than a director whose initial
                assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened
                election consent, including but not limited to a consent
                solicitation, relating to the election of directors of the Company)
                whose election by the Board or nomination for election by the
                Company's shareholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds
                (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were
                directors on September 1, 2000 or whose election or nomination for
                election was previously so approved or recommended, cease for any
                reason to constitute at least a majority thereof;
    
                      (iii) There is consummated a merger, consolidation,
                recapitalization, or reorganization of the Company, or a reverse
                stock split of any class of voting securities of the Company, if,
                immediately following consummation of any of the foregoing, either
                (A) individuals who, immediately prior to such consummation,
                constitute the Board do not constitute at least a majority of the
                members of the board of directors of the Company or the surviving or
                parent entity, as the case may be, or (B) the voting securities of
                the Company outstanding immediately prior to such recommendation do
                not represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted
                into voting securities of a surviving or parent entity) at least 60%
                or more of the combined voting power of the outstanding voting
                securities of the Company or such surviving or parent entity; or
    
                      (iv)  The shareholders of the Company have approved a plan of
                complete liquidation of the Company or there is consummated an
                agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or
                substantially all of the Company's assets (or any transaction have a
                similar effect).
    
                (d)   Definition of "Change in Control Price." The "Change in
          Control Price" means an amount in cash equal to the higher of (i) the
          amount of cash and fair market value of property that is the highest price
          per share paid (including extraordinary dividends) in any transaction
          triggering the Change in Control or any liquidation of shares following a
          sale of substantially all assets of the Company, or (ii) the highest Fair
          Market Value per share at any time during the 60-day period preceding and
          60-day period following the Change in Control.
    
          9.    ADDITIONAL AWARD FORFEITURE PROVISIONS.
    
                (a)   Forfeiture of Options and Other Awards and Gains Realized Upon
          Prior Option Exercises or Award Settlements. Unless otherwise determined
          by the Committee, each Award granted hereunder shall be subject to the
          following additional forfeiture conditions, to which the Participant, by
          accepting an Award hereunder, agrees. If any of the events specified in
          Section 9(b)(i), (ii), or (iii) occurs (a "Forfeiture Event"), all of the
          following forfeitures will result:
    
                      (i)   The unexercised portion of the Option, whether or not
                vested, and any other Award not then settled (except for an Award
                that has not been settled solely due to an elective deferral by the
                Participant and otherwise is not forfeitable in the event of any
                termination of service of the Participant) will be immediately
                forfeited and canceled upon the occurrence of the Forfeiture Event;
                and
    
                      (ii)  The Participant will be obligated to repay to the
                Company, in cash, within five business days after demand is made
                therefor by the Company, the total amount of Award Gain (as defined
                herein) realized by the Participant upon each exercise of an Option
                or settlement of an Award (regardless of any elective deferral) that
                occurred on or after (A) the date that is six months prior to the
                occurrence of the Forfeiture Event, if the Forfeiture Event occurred
                while the Participant was employed by the Company or a subsidiary or
                affiliate, or (B) the date that is six months prior to the
    
    
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                date the Participant's employment by the Company or a subsidiary or
                affiliate terminated, if the Forfeiture Event occurred after the
                Participant ceased to be so employed. For purposes of this Section,
                the term "Award Gain" shall mean (i), in respect of a given Option
                exercise, the product of (X) the Fair Market Value per share of
                Stock at the date of such exercise (without regard to any subsequent
                change in the market price of shares) minus the exercise price times
                (Y) the number of shares as to which the Option was exercised at
                that date, and (ii), in respect of any other settlement of an Award
                granted to the Participant, the Fair Market Value of the cash or
                Stock paid or payable to Participant (regardless of any elective
                deferral) less any cash or the Fair Market Value of any Stock or
                property (other than an Award or award which would have itself then
                been forfeitable hereunder and excluding any payment of tax
                withholding) paid by the Participant to the Company as a condition
                of or in connection such settlement.
    
                (b)   Events Triggering Forfeiture. The forfeitures specified in
          Section 9(a) will be triggered upon the occurrence of any one of the
          following Forfeiture Events at any time during the Participant's
          employment by the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate or during the
          one-year period following termination of such employment:
    
                      (i)   The Participant, acting alone or with others, directly
                or indirectly, prior to a Change in Control, (A) engages, either as
                employee, employer, consultant, advisor, or director, or as an
                owner, investor, partner, or shareholder unless the Participant's
                interest is insubstantial, in any business in an area or region in
                which the Company conducts business at the date the event occurs,
                which is directly in competition with a business then conducted by
                the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate; (B) induces any customer
                or supplier of the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate, or other
                company with which the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate has a
                business relationship, to curtail, cancel, not renew, or not
                continue his or her or its business with the Company or any
                subsidiary or affiliate; or (C) induces, or attempts to influence,
                any employee of or service provider to the Company or a subsidiary
                or affiliate to terminate such employment or service. The Committee
                shall, in its discretion, determine which lines of business the
                Company conducts on any particular date and which third parties may
                reasonably be deemed to be in competition with the Company. For
                purposes of this Section 9(b)(i), a Participant's interest as a
                shareholder is insubstantial if it represents beneficial ownership
                of less than five percent of the outstanding class of stock, and a
                Participant's interest as an owner, investor, or partner is
                insubstantial if it represents ownership, as determined by the
                Committee in its discretion, of less than five percent of the
                outstanding equity of the entity;
    
                      (ii)  The Participant discloses, uses, sells, or otherwise
                transfers, except in the course of employment with or other service
                to the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate, any confidential or
                proprietary information of the Company or any subsidiary or
                affiliate, including but not limited to information regarding the
                Company's current and potential customers, organization, employees,
                finances, and methods of operations and investments, so long as such
                information has not otherwise been disclosed to the public or is not
                otherwise in the public domain, except as required by law or
                pursuant to legal process, or the Participant makes statements or
                representations, or otherwise communicates, directly or indirectly,
                in writing, orally, or otherwise, or takes any other action which
                may, directly or indirectly, disparage or be damaging to the Company
                or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or their respective
                officers, directors, employees, advisors, businesses or reputations,
                except as required by law or pursuant to legal process; or
    
                      (iii) The Participant fails to cooperate with the Company or
                any subsidiary or affiliate by making himself or herself available
                to testify on behalf of the Company or such subsidiary or affiliate
                in any action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
                administrative, or investigative, or otherwise fails to assist the
                Company or any subsidiary or affiliate in any such action, suit, or
                proceeding by providing information and meeting and consulting with
                members of management of, other representatives of, or counsel to,
                the Company or such subsidiary or affiliate, as reasonably
                requested.
    
    
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                (c)   Agreement Does Not Prohibit Competition or Other Participant
          Activities. Although the conditions set forth in this Section 9 shall be
          deemed to be incorporated into an Award, a Participant is not thereby
          prohibited from engaging in any activity, including but not limited to
          competition with the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates. Rather,
          the non-occurrence of the Forfeiture Events set forth in Section 9(b) is a
          condition to the Participant's right to realize and retain value from his
          or her compensatory Options and Awards, and the consequence under the Plan
          if the Participant engages in an activity giving rise to any such
          Forfeiture Event are the forfeitures specified herein. The Company and the
          Participant shall not be precluded by this provision or otherwise from
          entering into other agreements concerning the subject matter of Section
          9(a) and 9(b).
    
                (d)   Committee Discretion. The Committee may, in its discretion,
          waive in whole or in part the Company's right to forfeiture under this
          Section, but no such waiver shall be effective unless evidenced by a
          writing signed by a duly authorized officer of the Company. In addition,
          the Committee may impose additional conditions on Awards, by inclusion of
          appropriate provisions in the document evidencing or governing any such
          Award.
    
          10.   GENERAL PROVISIONS.
    
                (a)   Compliance with Legal and Other Requirements. The Company may,
          to the extent deemed necessary or advisable by the Committee, postpone the
          issuance or delivery of Stock or payment of other benefits under any Award
          until completion of such registration or qualification of such Stock or
          other required action under any federal or state law, rule or regulation,
          listing or other required action with respect to any stock exchange or
          automated quotation system upon which the Stock or other securities of the
          Company are listed or quoted, or compliance with any other obligation of
          the Company, as the Committee may consider appropriate, and may require
          any Participant to make such representations, furnish such information and
          comply with or be subject to such other conditions as it may consider
          appropriate in connection with the issuance or delivery of Stock or
          payment of other benefits in compliance with applicable laws, rules, and
          regulations, listing requirements, or other obligations. The foregoing
          notwithstanding, in connection with a Change in Control, the Company shall
          take or cause to be taken no action, and shall undertake or permit to
          arise no legal or contractual obligation, that results or would result in
          any postponement of the issuance or delivery of Stock or payment of
          benefits under any Award or the imposition of any other conditions on such
          issuance, delivery or payment, to the extent that such postponement or
          other condition would represent a greater burden on a Participant than
          existed on the 90th day preceding the Change in Control.
    
                (b)   Limits on Transferability; Beneficiaries. No Award or other
          right or interest of a Participant under the Plan shall be pledged,
          hypothecated or otherwise encumbered or subject to any lien, obligation or
          liability of such Participant to any party (other than the Company or a
          subsidiary or affiliate thereof), or assigned or transferred by such
          Participant, and such Awards or rights that may be exercisable shall be
          exercised during the lifetime of the Participant only by the Participant
          or his or her guardian or legal representative, except that (i) Awards and
          related rights shall be transferred to a Participant's Beneficiary or
          Beneficiaries upon the death of the Participant, and (ii) Awards and other
          rights may be transferred to one or more Beneficiaries during the lifetime
          of the Participant, and rights thereunder may be exercised by such
          transferees in accordance with the terms of such Award, but only if and to
          the extent such transfers are then permitted by the Committee, subject to
          any terms and conditions which the Committee may impose thereon (including
          limitations the Committee may deem appropriate in order that offers and
          sales under the Plan will meet applicable requirements of registration
          forms under the Securities Act of 1933 specified by the Securities and
          Exchange Commission). A Beneficiary or other person claiming any rights
          under the Plan from or through any Participant shall be subject to all
          terms and conditions of the Plan and any Award document applicable to such
          Participant, except as otherwise determined by the Committee, and to any
          additional terms and conditions deemed necessary or appropriate by the
          Committee.
    
                (c)   Adjustments. In the event that any large, special and
          non-recurring dividend or other distribution (whether in the form of cash
          or property other than Stock), recapitalization, forward or reverse
    
    
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          split, Stock dividend, reorganization, merger, consolidation, spin-off,
          combination, repurchase, share exchange, liquidation, dissolution or other
          similar corporate transaction or event affects the Stock such that an
          adjustment is determined by the Committee to be appropriate under the
          Plan, then the Committee shall, in such manner as it may deem equitable,
          adjust any or all of (i) the number and kind of shares of Stock which may
          be delivered in connection with Awards granted thereafter, including al
          applicable limitations specified in Section 4(a), (ii) the number and kind
          of shares of Stock subject to or deliverable in respect of outstanding
          Awards, (iii) any fixed market price of Common Stock referred to in a
          performance condition or otherwise incorporated as a term of an Award, and
          (iv) the exercise price, grant price or purchase price relating to any
          Award or, if deemed appropriate, the Committee may make provision for a
          payment of cash or property to the holder of an outstanding Option
          (subject to Section 10(j)). In addition, the Committee is authorized to
          make adjustments in the terms and conditions of, and the criteria included
          in, Awards (including Performance Awards and performance goals relating
          thereto) in recognition of unusual or nonrecurring events (including,
          without limitation, events described in the preceding sentence, as well as
          acquisitions and dispositions of businesses and assets) affecting the
          Company, any subsidiary or affiliate or other business unit, or the
          financial statements of the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate, or in
          response to changes in applicable laws, regulations, accounting
          principles, tax rates and regulations or business conditions or in view of
          the Committee's assessment of the business strategy of the Company, any
          subsidiary or affiliate or business unit thereof, performance of
          comparable organizations, economic and business conditions, personal
          performance of a Participant, and any other circumstances deemed relevant.
    
                (d)   Tax Provisions.
    
                      (i)   Withholding. The Company and any subsidiary or affiliate
                is authorized to withhold from any Award granted, any payment
                relating to an Award under the Plan, including from a distribution
                of Stock, or any payroll or other payment to a Participant, amounts
                of withholding and other taxes due or potentially payable in
                connection with any transaction involving an Award, and to take such
                other action as the Committee may deem advisable to enable the
                Company and Participants to satisfy obligations for the payment of
                withholding taxes and other tax obligations relating to any Award.
                This authority shall include authority to withhold or receive Stock
                or other property and to make cash payments in respect thereof in
                satisfaction of a Participant's withholding obligations, either on a
                mandatory or elective basis in the discretion of the Committee.
                Other provisions of the Plan notwithstanding, only the minimum
                amount of Stock deliverable in connection with an Award necessary to
                satisfy statutory withholding requirements will be withheld.
    
                      (ii)  Required Consent to and Notification of Code Section
                83(b) Election. No election under Section 83(b) of the Code (to
                include in gross income in the year of transfer the amounts
                specified in Code Section 83(b)) or under a similar provision of the
                laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States may be made unless
                expressly permitted by the terms of the Award document or by action
                of the Committee in writing prior to the making of such election. In
                any case in which a Participant is permitted to make such an
                election in connection with an Award, the Participant shall notify
                the Company of such election within ten days of filing notice of the
                election with the Internal Revenue Service or other governmental
                authority, in addition to any filing and notification required
                pursuant to regulations issued under Code Section 83(b) or other
                applicable provision.
    
                (e)   Changes to the Plan. The Board may amend, suspend or terminate
          the Plan or the Committee's authority to grant Awards under the Plan
          without the consent of shareholders or Participants; provided, however,
          that, without the consent of an affected Participant, no such Board action
          may materially and adversely affect the rights of such Participant under
          any outstanding Award. The Committee shall have no authority to waive or
          modify any other Award term after the Award has been granted to the extent
          that the waived or modified term was mandatory under the Plan.
    
                (f)   Right of Setoff. The Company or any subsidiary or affiliate
          may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, deduct from and set off
          against any amounts the Company or a subsidiary or affiliate may owe to
          the Participant from time to time, including amounts payable in connection
          with any Award, owed as
    
    
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          wages, fringe benefits, or other compensation owed to the Participant,
          such amounts as may be owed by the Participant to the Company, including
          but not limited to amounts owed under Section 9(a), although the
          Participant shall remain liable for any part of the Participant's payment
          obligation not satisfied through such deduction and setoff. By accepting
          any Award granted hereunder, the Participant agrees to any deduction or
          setoff under this Section 10(f).
    
                (g)   Unfunded Status of Awards; Creation of Trusts. The Plan is
          intended to constitute an "unfunded" plan for incentive and deferred
          compensation. With respect to any payments not yet made to a Participant
          or obligation to deliver Stock pursuant to an Award, nothing contained in
          the Plan or any Award shall give any such Participant any rights that are
          greater than those of a general creditor of the Company; provided that the
          Committee may authorize the creation of trusts and deposit therein cash,
          Stock, other Awards or other property, or make other arrangements to meet
          the Company's obligations under the Plan. Such trusts or other
          arrangements shall be consistent with the "unfunded" status of the Plan
          unless the Committee otherwise determines with the consent of each
          affected Participant.
    
                (h)   Nonexclusivity of the Plan. Neither the adoption of the Plan
          by the Board nor its submission to the shareholders of the Company for
          approval shall be construed as creating any limitations on the power of
          the Board or a committee thereof to adopt such other incentive
          arrangements, apart from the Plan, as it may deem desirable, and such
          other arrangements may be either applicable generally or only in specific
          cases.
    
                (i)   Payments in the Event of Forfeitures; Fractional Shares.
          Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, in the event of a forfeiture
          of an Award with respect to which a Participant paid cash consideration,
          the Participant shall be repaid the amount of such cash consideration. No
          fractional shares of Stock shall be issued or delivered pursuant to the
          Plan or any Award. The Committee shall determine whether cash, other
          Awards or other property shall be issued or paid in lieu of such
          fractional shares or whether such fractional shares or any rights thereto
          shall be forfeited or otherwise eliminated.
    
                (j)   Certain Limitations Relating to Accounting Treatment of
          Awards. Other provisions of the Plan notwithstanding, the Committee's
          authority under the Plan (including under Sections 7(c), 7(d), 10(c) and
          10(d)) is limited to the extent necessary to ensure that any Option or
          other Award of a type that the Committee has intended to be subject to
          fixed accounting with a measurement date at the date of grant or the date
          performance conditions are satisfied under APB 25 shall not become subject
          to "variable" accounting solely due to the existence of such authority,
          unless the Committee specifically determines that the Award shall remain
          outstanding despite such "variable" accounting. In addition, other
          provisions of the Plan notwithstanding, (i) if any right under this Plan
          would cause a transaction to be ineligible for pooling-of-interests
          accounting that would, but for the right hereunder, be eligible for such
          accounting treatment, such right shall be automatically adjusted so that
          pooling-of-interests accounting shall be available, including by
          substituting Stock or cash having a Fair Market Value equal to any cash or
          Stock otherwise payable in respect of any right to cash which would cause
          the transaction to be ineligible for pooling-of-interests accounting, and
          (ii) if any authority under Section 8(c) would cause a transaction to be
          ineligible for pooling-of-interests accounting that would, but for such
          authority, be eligible for such accounting treatment, such authority shall
          be limited to the extent necessary so that such transaction would be
          eligible for pooling-of-interests accounting.
    
                (k)   Governing Law. The validity, construction, and effect of the
          Plan, any rules and regulations relating to the Plan and any Award
          document shall be determined in accordance with the laws of the State of
          New York, without giving effect to principles of conflicts of laws, and
          applicable provisions of federal law.
    
                (l)   Awards to Participants Outside the United States. The
          Committee may modify the terms of any Award under the Plan made to or held
          by a Participant who is then resident or primarily employed outside of the
          United States in any manner deemed by the Committee to be necessary or
          appropriate in order that such Award shall conform to laws, regulations,
          and customs of the country in which the Participant is then resident or
          primarily employed, or so that the value and other benefits of the Award
          to
    
    
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          the Participant, as affected by foreign tax laws and other restrictions
          applicable as a result of the Participant's residence or employment abroad
          shall be comparable to the value of such an Award to a Participant who is
          resident or primarily employed in the United States. An Award may be
          modified under this Section 10(l) in a manner that is inconsistent with
          the express terms of the Plan, so long as such modifications will not
          contravene any applicable law or regulation.
    
                (m)   Limitation on Rights Conferred under Plan. Neither the Plan
          nor any action taken hereunder shall be construed as (i) giving any
          Eligible Person or Participant the right to continue as an Eligible Person
          or Participant or in the employ or service of the Company or a subsidiary
          or affiliate, (ii) interfering in any way with the right of the Company or
          a subsidiary or affiliate to terminate any Eligible Person's or
          Participant's employment or service at any time, (iii) giving an Eligible
          Person or Participant any claim to be granted any Award under the Plan or
          to be treated uniformly with other Participants and employees, or (iv)
          conferring on a Participant any of the rights of a shareholder of the
          Company unless and until the Participant is duly issued or transferred
          shares of Stock in accordance with the terms of an Award or an Option is
          duly exercised. Except as expressly provided in the Plan and an Award
          document, neither the Plan nor any Award document shall confer on any
          person other than the Company and the Participant any rights or remedies
          thereunder.
    
                (n)   Severability; Entire Agreement. If any of the provisions of
          this Plan or any Award document is finally held to be invalid, illegal or
          unenforceable (whether in whole or in part), such provision shall be
          deemed modified to the extent, but only to the extent, of such invalidity,
          illegality or unenforceability, and the remaining provisions shall not be
          affected thereby; provided, that, if any of such provision is finally held
          to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable because it exceeds the maximum
          scope determined to be acceptable to permit such provision to be
          enforceable, such provision shall be deemed to be modified to the minimum
          extent necessary to modify such scope in order to make such provision
          enforceable hereunder. The Plan and any Award documents contain the entire
          agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter thereof and
          supersede all prior agreements, promises, covenants, arrangements,
          communications, representations and warranties between them, whether
          written or oral with respect to the subject matter thereof.
    
                (o)   Plan Effective Date and Termination. The Plan shall become
          effective at November 14, 2000. Unless earlier terminated by action of the
          Board of Directors, the Plan will remain in effect until such time as no
          Stock remains available for delivery under the Plan and the Company has no
          further rights or obligations under the Plan with respect to outstanding
          Awards under the Plan.
    
    
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                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
                              EXECUTIVE DEATH BENEFIT PLAN
    
    
    
                                 Effective July 1, 1990
    
    
                                        ARTICLE I
    
                                   PURPOSE OF THE PLAN
    
          1.01 The purpose of the Plan is to assist the Company in attracting and
    retaining qualified executive and creative employees and to provide eligible
    employees with increased death benefits during employment with the Company
    and/or after retirement.
    
                                       ARTICLE II
    
                                       DEFINITIONS
    
          2.01 "Annual Base Salary" shall mean the basic annual rate of a
    Participant's compensation (before making any reductions pursuant to an
    effective Cash or Deferred Wage and Salary Conversion Agreement under the
    International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. Retirement Investment Fund Plan), in
    effect for him or her on the first day of the Plan Year, but excluding bonuses,
    commissions and all other forms of compensation or benefits including additional
    compensation from this Plan and any amount contributed for him or her by the
    Company to any public or private employee benefit plan.
    
          2.02 "Basic Insurance Plan" shall mean the basic group term life insurance
    plan for employees and retirees maintained by the Company at its expense to
    provide noncontributory life insurance coverage based on annual earnings (as
    that term is defined in the Basic Insurance Plan), as such plan may be amended,
    modified or replaced from time to time.
    
          2.03 "Beneficiary" shall mean the individual or entity designated by the
    Participant to receive the death benefit payable under the Plan upon the
    Participant's death. If no such designation is made, or if the designated
    individual predeceases the Participant or the entity no longer exists, then the
    Beneficiary shall be the Participant's estate.
    
          2.04 "Company" shall mean International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
    
          2.05 "Effective Date" shall mean July 1, 1990
    
          2.06 "Eligible Employee" shall mean an individual who is employed by the
    Company or one of its subsidiaries on or after the Effective Date and who, (a)
    is a participant in either the Company's Management
    
    
    
    
    Incentive Compensation Plan ("MICP") or Special Executive Bonus Plan ("SEBP"),
    (b) is a participant in the Basic Insurance Plan, (c) has not yet attained the
    age of 70 and (d) has submitted to the Insurer a properly completed application
    for life insurance under this Plan.
    
          2.07 "Entrance Date" shall mean that date on which an Eligible Employee
    first becomes a Participant. The first Entrance Date, as regards any Eligible
    Employee, shall be the later of the Effective Date or the date of acceptance by
    the Insurer of such Eligible Employee's application for life insurance under
    this Plan. Beginning with the year 1991, subsequent Entrance Dates as regards
    any additional Eligible Employee(s), shall be the February 1 coinciding with or
    following the date of acceptance by the Insurer of their application for life
    insurance under this Plan.
    
          2.08 "Insurer" shall mean that independent company from time to time
    issuing to the Company written split-dollar life insurance policies on the lives
    of Participants in accordance with the terms of the Plan.
    
          2.09 "Participant" shall mean each Eligible Employee during his or her
    employment by the Company or one of its subsidiaries on and after the Entrance
    Date, who has not attained the age of 70 and who is accepted by the Insurer as
    insurable for life insurance.
    
          2.10 "Plan" shall mean this Executive Death Benefit Plan.
    
          2.11 "Plan Committee" shall mean the committee appointed by the Chief
    Executive Officer of the Company to administer the Plan.
    
          2.12 "Retired Participant" shall mean each Participant or Senior
    Participant who leaves the employ of the Company or one of its subsidiaries at a
    time when he or she is eligible to receive an immediate Early, Normal, or
    Deferred Pension, or, upon attaining age 65, a Disability Pension from the
    Company's qualified pension plan.
    
          2.13 "Senior Participant" shall mean each Participant, during his or her
    employment by the Company or one of its subsidiaries, who has attained the age
    of 70.
    
                                       ARTICLE III
    
                                BENEFITS TO PARTICIPANTS
    
          3.01 The death benefit payable to each Participant's beneficiary under the
    Basic Insurance Plan shall be reduced to $50,000 during the period prior to
    termination of employment with the Company and to $12,500 upon becoming a
    Retired Participant. The Company may require any Eligible Employee, as a
    condition of becoming a Participant, to deliver an instrument signed by him or
    her waiving benefits under the Basic Insurance Plan in excess of $50,000 as long
    as the Eligible Employee shall be a Participant or Senior Participant in this
    Plan. No such waiver and no provision of this Plan shall adversely affect such
    Participant's right to be reinstated in the Basic Insurance Plan, upon the
    termination of this Plan, if such other plan shall then be in effect.
    
          3.02 The Company shall purchase and have all ownership rights (except as
    otherwise provided under Section 3.04 of this Plan) to a split dollar insurance
    policy on the life of each Participant. Such policy shall provide a death
    benefit equal to the excess of twice the Participant's Annual Base Salary on the
    first day of the Plan Year in
    
    
    
    
    which death shall occur over the death benefit provided by the Basic Insurance
    Plan. Upon the death of a Participant, death benefit under such policy shall be
    paid by the Insurer to the Participant's Beneficiary designated as provided in
    Section 3.04 of this Plan. Upon a Participant's attaining the status of a Senior
    Participant or Retired Participant, whichever shall first occur, his or her
    Beneficiary designation(s) and/or any Beneficiary designations made by his or
    her assignee under Section 3.04 of this Plan shall lapse, and upon the Retired
    or Senior Participant's death, the entire death benefit under such policy shall
    be paid by the Insurer to the Company.
    
          3.03 All premiums on each policy described in 3.02 above shall be paid by
    the Company for the respective accounts of all Participants. The imputed income
    to each Participant shall be determined in accordance with Internal Revenue
    Service Ruling 66-110 (1966-1 CBl2), or applicable Federal tax laws, regulations
    or rulings which may be subsequently published relating to split dollar life
    insurance programs. The Company will record this portion of the premium as
    additional taxable compensation to each Participant.
    
          3.04 Each Participant or his or her assignee shall have the right to
    designate the Beneficiary(ies) of the death benefit under the policy on his or
    her life described in Section 3.02 by a signed writing delivered to the Plan
    Committee and the right during the Participant's employment with the Company or
    any subsidiary to change the Beneficiary designation at any time by a similar
    writing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Participant may, during the
    Participant's employment with the Company, irrevocably assign his or her right
    to designate and change Beneficiary(ies) under the policy by a signed writing
    delivered to the Plan Committee prior to the Participant's death.
    
          3.05 All benefits to a Participant, his or her assignee or
    Beneficiary(ies) under this Article III shall cease upon the earlier of (a) the
    termination of his or her employment with the Company or any subsidiary for any
    reason other than death or (b) the Participant's becoming a Senior Participant.
    If a Participant terminates his or her employment with the Company or any
    subsidiary prior to age 55, the Company shall use its best efforts to have the
    Insurer offer to such Participant the opportunity to purchase all ownership
    rights in the insurance policy on his or her life at its cash surrender value.
    
                                       ARTICLE IV
    
                       BENEFITS TO RETIRED AND SENIOR PARTICIPANTS
    
          4.01 Within 30 days after receipt by the Company of a signed written
    notice of intent to retire from a Participant who will qualify upon the
    indicated retirement date as a Retired Participant under the provisions of
    Section 2.12 of this Plan, and, if earlier, at least 60 days prior to a
    Participant's attaining age 70, the Company shall execute and deliver to such
    Participant a supplemental death benefit agreement containing the Company's
    written promise, effective upon the Participant's attaining the status of
    Retired Participant or Senior Participant, as the case may be, to pay to the
    Beneficiaries of the Participant, upon the Participant's death, a death benefit
    in an amount equal to that provided in Section 4.02 of this Article IV, which
    agreement, upon execution by such Participant and return to the Company within
    15 days after its receipt shall be binding upon the Company and the Participant.
    Whether or not such agreement is executed and returned to the Company, upon
    attaining the status of Retired Participant or Senior Participant, such Retired
    or Senior Participant and his or her assignee or Beneficiary(ies) shall have no
    rights in or under the split dollar insurance policy on his or her life, such
    persons' rights under this Plan being limited to those set forth in said
    supplemental death benefit agreement if executed and returned. The Company's
    obligation to make payments under such supplemental death benefit
    
    
    
    
    agreements may be delegated, irrevocably or otherwise, to a third party who may
    be the Insurer.
    
          4.02(a) The amount of the death benefit provided under Section 4~0l shall
    be a multiple of the Retired Participant's or Senior Participant's Annual Base
    Salary on the first day of the Plan Year prior to his or her attaining the
    status of Retired Participant or Senior Participant, whichever first occurs. The
    resultant amount shall be reduced by $12,500 in the case of a Retired
    Participant, and by $50,000 in the case of a Senior Participant while in Senior
    Participant status.
    
    If immediately prior to attaining the status of Retired Participant or Senior
    Participant, the Participant was a participant in the Company's MICP, such
    multiple shall be two; otherwise the multiple shall be one. In no event,
    however, shall the aggregate death benefit payable to the Beneficiary(ies) of a
    Senior Participant (including the portion payable from the Basic Insurance Plan)
    be less than $135,000 if death occurs while he or she is in the status of Senior
    Participant.
    
          4.02(b) The amount of the death benefit payable under this plan to the
    Beneficiary of a Retired Participant who did not have twenty (20) or more years
    of employment with the Company and any of its subsidiaries at the date of his or
    her retirement shall be reduced at the rate of 5% for each year or fraction
    thereof that such years of employment were less than twenty (20). The maximum
    reduction under this sub-section shall be 50%. No reduction shall be made under
    this sub-section in the benefit paid under the Basic Insurance Plan.
    
          4.03 Each Retired Participant and each Senior Participant shall have the
    right to designate the Beneficiary(ies) of the death benefit under the
    supplemental death benefit agreement described in Section 4.01 by a signed
    writing delivered to the Plan Committee and the right during the Retired
    Participants or Senior Participant's lifetime to change the Beneficiary
    designation at any time by a similar writing.
    
                                        ARTICLE V
    
                                     ADMINISTRATION
    
          5.01 The Plan Committee shall be the fiduciary and, as such, shall have
    full responsibility and authority to interpret, control and administer the Plan
    and agreements entered into with Participants pursuant to the Plan, including
    the power to amend the Plan as provided in Section 6.02 hereof, the power to
    promulgate rules of Plan administration, the power to investigate and settle any
    disputes as to rights or benefits arising under the Plan and such agreements,
    the power to appoint agents, accountants and consultants, the power to delegate
    the Committee's duties, the power to issue instructions to the Insurer, and the
    power to make such other decisions or take such other actions as the Plan
    Committee, in its sole discretion, deems necessary or advisable to aid in the
    proper administration of the Plan. Actions and determinations by the Plan
    Committee shall be final, binding and conclusive, subject to the review
    procedure in Section 5.03 of this Plan, for all purposes of this Plan, unless
    clearly contradictory to law or an express provision hereof.
    
          5.02 Without limitation, the Company shall have the power and authority to
    transfer ownership of life insurance policies to terminating Participants, as
    provided in Section 3.05, or to a trust subject to the claims of the Company's
    general creditors and to execute and deliver written agreements binding the
    Company to pay death benefits as provided in Section 4.01.
    
    
    
    
          5.03 Any Participant, Beneficiary or other person (hereafter called
    "Claimant") claiming any benefit under this Plan may submit a written claim to
    the Plan Committee specifying the particular benefit claimed. If any benefit
    claimed under this Plan is denied in whole or in part, the Plan Committee shall
    give written notice of the denial to the Claimant within a reasonable period of
    time following receipt of the claim by the Plan Committee. Such written notice
    to the Claimant shall set forth the specific reason(s) for denial of the benefit
    claimed in a manner calculated to be understood by the Claimant. In addition,
    the written notice shall specifically refer to the pertinent provisions of the
    Plan or other document on which the denial is based. If additional material or
    information is necessary for the Claimant to perfect the claim, then a
    description of such material or information and an explanation of any such
    material or information as is necessary shall be set forth in the written
    notice.
    
          The Claimant may then, within 60 days following receipt of the written
    notice of denial, file with the Plan Committee any additional evidence bearing
    on his or her claim and a written request for a review of the denial of the
    benefit. As part of the review procedure, the Claimant or his or her duly
    authorized representative may review pertinent documents. Within 60 days
    following receipt of a request for review, unless special circumstances require
    a further extention of time but in no event later than 120 days after a receipt
    of a request for review, the Plan Committee shall conduct a full and fair review
    of the initial decision denying the benefit and mail to the Claimant is written
    in a manner calculated to be understood by the Claimant as well as specific
    references to the pertinent provisions of the Plan or other document on which
    the decision is based.
    
    If the benefit or claim under review arises under a life insurance policy issued
    by the Insurer, the Plan Committee shall, as part of the review, obtain from the
    Insurer, a determination of the reason or reasons for the denial of the benefit
    or claim under the relevant insurance policy based upon all evidence available
    to the Plan Committee and the Insurer.
    
                                       ARTICLE VI
    
                    AMENDMENT, SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION OF THE PLAN
    
          6.01 The Board of Directors of the Company may from time to time amend,
    suspend or terminate the Plan, in whole or in part.
    
          6.02 The Plan Committee also may from time to time amend the Plan as may
    be needed (a) to comply with applicable tax or welfare benefit plan laws,
    regulations or rulings related to split dollar life insurance programs or
    otherwise or (b) to resolve ambiguities in the Plan or related documents, but no
    such amendment by the Plan Committee shall alter, expand or contradict the
    intent of the authorizing resolutions adopted by the Company's Board of
    Directors on March 13, 1990.
    
          6.03 No amendment, suspension or termination of the Plan shall materially
    adversely affect (a) the payment of a death benefit already due under the Plan
    as the result of the death of a Participant prior to the date of adoption of
    such amendment, suspension or termination, or (b) the rights of any Retired
    Participant or Senior Participant or his or her Beneficiary(ies) under a
    supplemental death benefit agreement entered into prior to the date of adoption
    of such amendment, suspension or termination of the Plan.
    
    
    
    
                                       ARTICLE VII
    
                                         FUNDING
    
          7.01 No promise of payment of benefits by the Company under this Plan
    shall be secured by any specific assets of the Company, nor shall any assets of
    the Company be designated as attributable or allocated to the satisfaction of
    such promise, except that the Company undertakes to purchase a split dollar
    insurance policy on the life of each Participant as described in 3.02, subject
    to acceptance by the Insurer. Benefit payments by the Company shall be made from
    the Company's general assets.
    
                                      ARTICLE VIII
    
                                   GENERAL PROVISIONS
    
          8.01 No benefit under the Plan shall be subject in any manner to
    anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or
    charge, except by will or the laws of descent and distribution and, except as
    provided in Section 3.04 of this Plan, any attempt thereat shall be void. No
    such benefit shall, prior to receipt thereof, be in any manner liable for or
    subject to the debts, contracts, liabilities, engagements or torts of any
    Participant or his or her Beneficiaries.
    
          8.02 This Plan shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the
    Company and each Participant, and upon the successors and assigns of the Company
    and of each Participant.
    
          8.03 The Company or the Insurer shall deduct from the amount of any
    payments hereunder all taxes required to be withheld by applicable laws.
    
          8.04 This Plan shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the
    laws of the State of New York.
    
          8.05 The Insurer selected by the Plan Committee shall be a reputable
    insurance company in good standing and authorized to issue split dollar life
    insurance policies under the laws of the State of New York, but the Company does
    not guarantee the payment or performance by the Insurer of the Insurer's
    obligations under any life insurance policies issued by it.
    
          8.06 Except for the first "short" Plan Year beginning July 1, 1990 and
    ending January 31, 1991, each Plan Year shall begin on February 1 of one
    calendar year end on January 31 of the succeeding calendar year.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
                        INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
                             1997 EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION PLAN
    
          INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC., a New York corporation (herein
    together with its subsidiaries and subsidiaries which become such after the
    adoption of the Plan called "IFF"), hereby establishes the 1997 Employee Stock
    Option Plan (herein called the "Plan") on the following terms and conditions:
    
          1. Purpose: To promote the best interests of IFF and its shareholders by
    providing methods by which officers and key employees of IFF may acquire a
    proprietary interest in IFF, thus identifying their interests with those of the
    shareholders and encouraging them to make greater efforts on behalf of IFF.
    
          2. Method of Adoption: By the favorable vote of at least two-thirds of the
    Board of Directors of IFF (herein called the "Board") subject to the approval of
    the holders of a majority of IFF shares.
    
          3. Term: Options may be granted at any time and from time to time, from
    the date of adoption of the Plan by the Board, subject to the approval of the
    Plan by the shareholders of IFF within 12 months after the Plan is adopted, to
    May 8, 2007, but no stock option shall extend for a term of more than ten years
    from the date of its grant.
    
          4. Number of Shares: The Plan shall cover an aggregate of three million
    five hundred thousand (3,500,000) shares of Common Stock of IFF of the par value
    of $.12-1/2 each. The maximum aggregate number of shares that may be granted
    under this Plan during its term to any "Participant", as defined in Section 6
    hereof, shall be five hundred thousand (500,000) shares (the "Individual Cap").
    Either authorized and unissued shares or treasury shares maybe used.
    
          If any options expire or terminate without being exercised in full,
    including options voluntarily surrendered for cancellation, the shares subject
    thereto which have not been purchased in accordance with the terms of such
    options shall be available for the grant of new options under the Plan.
    
          5. Purchase Price: The purchase price per share for any stock optioned at
    any time under this Plan shall be such price as shall be fixed by the Stock
    Option and Compensation Committee of the Board or such other Committee or a
    subcommittee of a committee as may be appointed by the Board to administer the
    Plan (herein called the "Committee"), but not less than the fair market value
    thereof at the time of granting the option. Upon exercise of any stock option
    the Participant may pay for the stock covered by the stock option and/or may pay
    for any tax withholding resulting from such exercise by delivery of Common Stock
    of IFF, providing the Participant has held such Common Stock for at least six
    months, or such longer period as determined by the Committee. The Committee may
    
    
    
    
    also allow payment upon exercise of any option by any other means which the
    Committee determines to be consistent with the Plan's purpose and applicable
    law.
    
          6. Eligibility: Any officer or key employee of IFF designated by the
    Committee (any such officer or key employee is referred to in this Plan as a
    "Participant").
    
          7. Employment at the Time of Each Purchase: Any stock option may be
    exercised by any Participant only so long as he or she remains in the employ of
    IFF; provided that if a Participant voluntarily resigns with the consent of the
    Board, if he becomes totally disabled or if he or she retires, he or she may
    exercise within 3 months thereafter (but not later than the expiration date of
    the option) the option as to the balance, if any, of the shares which the
    Participant was entitled to purchase pursuant to Section 9 hereof at the date of
    such resignation, disability or retirement. Authorized leaves of absence for
    military or governmental service or other purposes approved by the Committee
    will be deemed a continuation of employment for purposes of the Plan, and
    modifications or extensions of the periods of the option agreement or otherwise
    may be made by the Committee. If a Participant dies while employed by IFF, his
    or her legal representatives, distributees or legatees as the case may be, may
    exercise within 3 months thereafter (but not later than the expiration date of
    the option) the option as to the balance, if any, of the shares which the
    Participant was entitled to purchase pursuant to Section 9 hereof at the date of
    his or her death or, in case such death occurs less than 48 months from the date
    of the grant of the option, that proportion of the shares covered by the option
    which the number of days in the period from the date of grant to the date of the
    Participant's death bears to the number 1460, less any shares previously
    purchased under the option.
    
          8. Individual Options: Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the
    selection of Participants and decisions concerning the timing, pricing, and the
    number of shares covered by individual stock options shall be made solely by the
    Committee. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee at the time of grant,
    options granted hereunder to Participants subject to United States taxation
    shall be deemed to be "incentive stock options" to the extent permitted under
    Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended (the "Code"), and the
    balance of such options shall be deemed not to be incentive stock options.
    
          The Committee may authorize the grant of an additional automatic option
    ("reload option") effective on the date of exercise by a Participant of an
    already outstanding option under this Plan, on such terms and conditions as the
    Committee shall determine. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee, the
    number of shares subject to a reload option granted to a Participant with
    respect to the exercise of an option shall not exceed the number of shares
    delivered by the Participant in payment of the option price of such option,
    
    
    
    
    and/or in payment of any tax withholding resulting from such exercise. A reload
    option shall have an option price of not less than 100% of the per share fair
    market value on the date of grant of such reload option, and shall be subject to
    all other terms and conditions of the original grant, including the expiration
    date, and to such additional terms and conditions as the Committee in its sole
    discretion shall determine. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any rights a
    Participant may have to a reload option under a stock option agreement or
    otherwise shall be subject to (a) the availability of shares under the Plan, and
    (b) the Individual Cap of such Participant.
    
          9. Exercise of Options: The stock options may be exercised as follows: up
    to one-third of the shares covered at any time after 24 months from the date of
    grant; up to two-thirds of such shares at any time after 36 months from such
    date; and all the shares at any time after 48 months from such date. Stock
    certificates will be issued as the stock options are exercised and the shares
    are paid for.
    
          10. Rights of Participants Before Issuance of Stock Certificates: No
    Participant shall have any rights as a shareholder with respect to any shares
    covered by his or her stock option until the date of the issuance of the stock
    certificate to him or her for such shares following his or her exercise of the
    options. No adjustment shall be made for dividends or other rights for which the
    record date is prior to the date such stock certificate is issued.
    
          11. Anti-Dilution Provisions: Each option agreement shall contain such
    provisions as the Committee shall deem to be appropriate, including provisions
    for appropriate adjustment of the option price and the number of shares covered,
    or both, to protect the Participant in the event of a reorganization,
    recapitalization, stock split, stock dividend, combination of shares, merger or
    consolidation (except as otherwise stated below) or in the event of any other
    change in the corporate capital structure of IFF. In the event of any such
    adjustment, the aggregate number and class of shares available under the Plan
    and the maximum number of shares as to which options may be granted to any
    Participant may also be appropriately adjusted.
    
          12. Nonassignability: No option shall be sold, transferred, pledged,
    assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated, other than by will or by the
    laws of descent and distribution. All options granted to a Participant shall be
    exercisable during his or her lifetime only by such Participant.
    
          13. Administration: The Plan shall be administered by vote of a majority
    of the Committee, all of the members of which shall be "outside directors" as
    that term is defined in Section 162(m) of the Code, but no Board member who is
    to be considered as a Participant in the Plan shall take part in the
    deliberations or vote with respect to his own participation.
    
    
    
    
          14. Merger or Consolidation: In the event of the merger or consolidation
    of IFF with or into another corporation as a result of which IFF is not the
    surviving corporation, then on written notice to the Participant given by the
    surviving corporation, an option under the Plan may be exercised, as to the
    entire number of shares subject thereto, on and after the effective date of such
    merger or consolidation and the option shall cease and terminate as to any
    shares as to which it has not been exercised on a date 180 days after the
    effective date of such merger or consolidation or on the expiration date of such
    option, whichever is earlier.
    
          15. Agreements: Options issued under the Plan shall be evidenced by
    agreements in such form as the Committee may approve. The terms of such
    agreements shall comply with the applicable terms of the Plan outlined herein.
    
          16. Interpretation: In the event of any difference of opinion between a
    Participant and IFF concerning the meaning or effect of the Plan, such
    difference shall be resolved by the Committee.
    
          17. Compliance with Applicable Laws: No shares shall be offered under the
    Plan and no stock certificate shall be delivered upon exercise of options until
    such offering has been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
    and any other applicable governmental laws and regulations, unless in the
    opinion of counsel such offering is exempt from registration under such Act, and
    until IFF shall have complied with any applicable provisions of the Securities
    Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
    
          18. Amendment and Termination of the Plan: The Board may from time to
    time, with respect to any shares at the time not subject to options, suspend or
    discontinue the Plan or amend it in any respect, provided that the Board may
    not, without the approval of the holders of a majority of outstanding shares of
    IFF (except as provided in paragraph 11 above), increase the aggregate number of
    shares available for options, change the employees or class of employees
    eligible to become Participants, reduce the option price below that provided for
    hereunder, or make any change requiring shareholder approval under Section
    162(m) of the Code.
    
    
    
    
    
    
                        INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
                         BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING HELD 2/8/00
    
          Section 7 of the 1997 Employee Stock Option Plan (the "Plan") is deleted
    and the following is substituted therefor:
    
          "7. Employment at the Time of Each Purchase:
    
          (a) Except as provided below in subsections (b) and (c) of this section,
    any stock option may be exercised by any Participant only so long as he or she
    remains in the employ of IFF; provided that if a Participant voluntarily
    resigns, becomes totally disabled or retires, he or she may exercise within 3
    months thereafter (but not later than the expiration date of the option) the
    option as to the balance, if any, of the shares which the Participant was
    entitled to purchase pursuant to section 9 hereof at the date of such
    resignation, disability or retirement. Authorized leaves of absence for military
    or governmental service or other purposes approved by the Committee will be
    deemed a continuation of employment for purposes of the Plan, and modifications
    or extensions of the periods of the option agreement or otherwise may be made by
    the Committee. If a Participant dies while employed by IFF, his or her legal
    representatives, distributees or legatees as the case may be, may exercise
    within three (3) months thereafter (but not later than the expiration date of
    the option) the option as to the balance, if any, of the shares which the
    Participant was entitled to purchase pursuant to Section 9 hereof at the date of
    his or her death or, in case such death occurs less than 48 months from the date
    of the grant of the option, that proportion of the shares covered by the option
    which the number of days in the period from the date of grant to the date of the
    Participant's death bears to the number 1460, less any shares previously
    purchased under the option.
    
          (b) Any stock option granted on or after February 8, 2000 may be exercised
    by a Participant who retires at age 65 or older, until the option's expiration
    date, as to the balance, if any, of the shares which the Participant was
    entitled to purchase pursuant to Section 9 hereof at the date of such
    retirement.
    
          (c) On and after February 8, 2000, the Committee, in its discretion,
    (i)may grant one or more stock options, which by their terms may be exercised by
    the Participant with respect to any or all of the shares subject thereto, and/or
    for periods of time after the termination of the Participant's employment for
    any reason (but not later than the expiration date of the option), and (ii) may
    reserve to itself the right to extend or vary the terms of one or more stock
    options granted on or after February 8, 2000 to allow the exercise of the option
    by the Participant with respect to any or all of the shares subject thereto
    and/or for periods of time after the termination of the Participant's employment
    for any reason (but not later than the expiration date of the option).
    
          (d) In the event of the death of any holder of any option granted or
    amended by the Committee pursuant to subsections (b) or (c) of this section
    while such option remains exercisable, the option may be exercised by his or her
    "Beneficiary," as hereinafter defined, legal representatives, distributees or
    legatees, as the case may be, within 12
    
    
    
    
    months thereafter (but not later than the expiration date of the option) as to
    the entire number of shares which the Participant was entitled to purchase
    thereunder at the date of his or her death.
    
          (e) For purposes of this section, the term "Beneficiary" shall mean, with
    respect to any option, the family member or members, or the trust or trusts for
    the benefit of one or more family members, which have been designated by an
    optionee in his or her most recent written beneficiary designation filed with
    the Committee as entitled to exercise such option after such optionee's death,
    or if there is no surviving designated Beneficiary, then the legal
    representatives, distributees or legatees of such Beneficiary."
    
          The first sentence of Section 9 of the Plan shall be amended to read as
    follows:
    
          "9. Exercise of Options. Except as the Committee may otherwise determine
    pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 7 hereof, the stock options may be
    exercised as follows: up to one-third of the shares covered at any time after 24
    months from the date of grant; up to two-thirds of such shares at any time after
    36 months from such date; and all the shares at any time after 48 months from
    such date."
    
          The first sentence of Section 12 of the Plan shall be amended to read as
    follows:
    
          "12. Nonassignability. No option shall be sold, transferred, pledged,
    assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated, other than by will or by the
    laws of descent and distribution or to a Beneficiary."
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
                                       RABBI TRUST
    
                                           FOR
    
                        INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
    
    
    THIS AGREEMENT, made this 4th day of October, 2000, between International
    Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (hereinafter called the "Corporation") on behalf of
    itself and its associated companies, if any, participating in this trust and
    First Union National Bank (hereinafter called the "Trustee"); a banking
    organization organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York and
    Buck Consultants Inc. (hereinafter called the "Benefit Determiner"), a
    Corporation whose principal place of business is in the State of New York.
    
                                       WTTNESSETH:
    
    WHEREAS, the Corporation has adopted and sponsors the nonqualified deferred
    compensation and welfare benefit plans listed in Appendix A (hereinafter called
    the "Plan(s)"); and
    
    WHEREAS, the Corporation has incurred or expects to incur liability under the
    terms of such Plan(s) with respect to the individuals participating in such
    Plan(s); and
    
    WHEREAS, the Corporation wishes to establish a trust (hereinafter called the
    "Trust") and to contribute to the Trust assets that shall be held therein,
    subject to the claims of the Corporation's creditors in the event of the
    Corporation's Insolvency, as herein defined, until paid to Plan participants and
    their beneficiaries in such manner and at such times as specified in the
    Plan(s); and
    
    WHEREAS, it is the intention of the parties that this Trust shall constitute an
    unfunded arrangement and shall not affect the status of any of the Plan(s) as
    unfunded plan(s) maintained for the purposes of providing deferred compensation
    for a select group of management or highly compensated employees for purposes of
    Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 or as unfunded
    "excess benefit plan(s)" under Section 3(36) of Title I of ERISA. as amended
    from time to time; and
    
    
    
    WHEREAS, it is the intention of the Corporation to make contributions to the
    Trust to provide itself with a source of funds to assist it in the meeting of
    its liabilities under the Plan(s), and upon the earlier of a Potential Change in
    Control, as defined herein, or Change in Control, as defined herein, to provide
    the funding of a Legal Defense Fund, as defined herein, to enable the Trustee to
    protect the rights of participants and beneficiaries under the Plan(s); and
    
    WHEREAS, it is also the intention of the Corporation to have the Trust available
    to associated companies of the Corporation that are participating in the Plan(s)
    covered by the Trust, and under the terms of this agreement (hereinafter
    referred to as the "Trust Agreement" or "Agreement"), the Corporation shall
    operate on behalf of all such associated companies; and
    
    WHEREAS, the Corporation wishes to establish for itself and for each associated
    company of the Corporation that is participating in the Plan(s) covered by the
    Trust, a separate bookkeeping account (hereinafter referred to as the "Account")
    under the Trust, each such Account to include only the contributions from or on
    behalf of that company for which the Account was established, investment
    earnings and adjustments for charges, payments, expenses, and cash flow on
    assets attributable to the contributions to each such Account and with respect
    to each Plan, such Account shall maintain a subaccount in order to provide a
    potential source of payments under the terms of such Plan(s); and
    
    WHEREAS, except in the case of Insolvency, amounts credited to each Account, and
    the earnings thereon, shall be used by the Trustee solely in satisfaction of the
    liabilities of the Corporation and its associated companies with respect to the
    participants and the beneficiaries in the Plan(s), and expenses as provided
    herein, and such utilization shall be in accordance with the procedures set
    forth herein; and
    
    
    
    WHEREAS, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, upon
    satisfaction of all liabilities of the Corporation and its associated companies
    with respect to all participants and their beneficiaries under their respective
    Plan(s), the balance, if any, remaining in the Accounts shall revert to the
    Corporation and/or the associated companies, as appropriate, provided, however,
    that all amounts attributable to such Plan(s) and attributable to the Legal
    Defense Fund shall, at all times, be subject under this Agreement to the claims
    of the Corporation's and its associated companies' creditors as hereinafter
    provided; and
    
    WHEREAS, the Corporation, on behalf of itself and its associated companies, and
    the Trustee have created this Trust to provide assurances to certain management
    employees of the Corporation and its associated companies and the Benefit
    Determiner acknowledges and will operate in accordance with that intention;
    
    NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual and independent
    promises herein, including certain fees and expenses paid or payable by the
    Corporation and its associated companies to the Trustee and the Benefit
    Determiner, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
    
                                        ARTICLE I
    
                                 ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUST
    
    1.1  The Corporation hereby deposits with the Trustee for its Account under the
         Trust $1,000, which shall become the principal of the Trust to be held,
         administered and disposed of by the Trustee as provided in this Trust
         Agreement.
    
    
    
    1.2  The Trust hereby established is revocable but, subject to the provisions of
         Section 6.2 hereof, shall become irrevocable upon the earlier of a
         Potential Change in Control, as defined in Section 16.2 herein, or a Change
         in Control, as defined in Section 16.3 herein.
    
    1.3  The Trust is intended to be a grantor trust, of which the Corporation and
         each associated company is the grantor, within the meaning of subpart E,
         part I, subchapter J, chapter 1, subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code of
         1986, as amended, and shall be construed accordingly.
    
    1.4  The principal of the Trust, and any earnings thereon, shall be held
         separate and apart from other funds of the Corporation and each of the
         associated companies and shall be used exclusively for the uses and
         purposes of Plan participants, their beneficiaries and the Corporation's
         and each associated company's general creditors, and paying the expenses of
         administering the Trust as herein set forth. Furthermore, any amounts
         attributable to a particular Plan and to a particular associated company
         shall be accounted for separately, even though for investment purposes
         Trust assets can be commingled. Plan participants and their beneficiaries
         shall have no preferred claim on, or any beneficial ownership interest in,
         any assets of the Trust. Any rights created under the Plan(s) and this
         Trust Agreement shall be mere unsecured contractual rights of Plan
         participants and their beneficiaries against the Corporation and, if
         applicable, any associated company. Any assets held by the Trust will be
         subject to the claims of the Corporation's or associated company's general
         creditors, as the case may be, under Federal and state law in the event of
         Insolvency, as defined in Section 4.1 herein. The rights of creditors of
         any associated company shall be limited to the assets held for that company
         under the trust.
    
    
    
    1.5  The Corporation and each associated company, in its sole discretion, may at
         any time, or from time to time, make additional deposits of cash or,
         subject to Section 5.3, other property (including, in the case of the
         Corporation, but not limited to, treasury shares of the Corporation) in
         trust with the Trustee to augment the principal to be held, administered
         and disposed of by said Trustee as provided in this Trust Agreement. The
         Corporation may make contributions on behalf of an associated company. Any
         contribution made to the Trust shall be credited to the Account of the
         company for which the contribution is made and further allocated under the
         Account to the Plan for which the contribution is intended, and this
         information will be supplied by the Corporation at the time of the deposit
         or allocation. Neither the Trustee nor any Plan participant or beneficiary
         shall have any right to compel such additional deposits; provided, however,
         upon the earlier of a Potential Change in Control or Change in Control, if
         the Trust assets are less than 110% of the benefit liabilities under the
         Plan(s), the Corporation and each associated company shall, as soon as
         possible, but in no event later than seven days following such event, make
         a contribution in cash or property to the Trust in an amount, determined by
         the Benefit Determiner, which, taken together with the value of the
         existing Trust assets, is no less than 110% of the amount needed to pay
         each Plan participant and beneficiary the benefits to which such Plan
         participant or beneficiary would be entitled pursuant to the terms of the
         Plan(s) as of the date on which the earlier of the Potential Change in
         Control or Change in Control occurs. In addition, subject to the provisions
         of Section 6.2 hereof, after the earlier of a Potential Change in Control
         or Change in Control, if the Trust assets become insufficient to pay all
         benefits to which participants or beneficiaries of deceased participants
         are entitled under the Plan(s), as determined by the Benefit Determiner,
         the Corporation or associated company shall contribute to the Trust the
         additional amount necessary to fully fund their respective benefit
         liabilities under the Plan(s) as determined by the Benefit
    
    
    
         Determiner. A copy of any such determination by the Benefit Determiner
         shall be provided to the Trustee.
    
    1.6  In addition, the Corporation and any associated company may at any time,
         and the Corporation shall upon the occurrence of the earlier of a Potential
         Change in Control or Change in Control, make a contribution to a Legal
         Defense Fund established under Article X of this Trust Agreement. The
         primary purpose of these funds would be to enable the Trustee to take such
         legal action as it deems necessary after a Change in Control to protect the
         participants and beneficiaries entitlement to benefits under the Plan(s)
         after a Change in Control occurs and to pay legal expenses incurred by the
         Trustee or Benefit Determiner in protecting participants' and
         beneficiaries' entitlement to benefit under the Plan(s).
    
                                       ARTICLE II
    
           DESIGNATION OF BENEFIT DETERMINER AND PAYMENTS TO PLAN PARTICIPANTS
    
    2.1  By its acceptance of this Trust, the Trustee hereby agrees to the
         designation by the Corporation of a "Benefit Determiner" under this Trust
         Agreement. Prior to a Change in Control, the selection and retention of a
         Benefit Determiner shall be the sole responsibility of the Corporation. In
         the event a Change in Control occurs, the responsibility for selection and
         retention of a Benefit Determiner resides with the Trustee. In that case,
         the Trustee in its sole discretion may, but need not, designate a new
         Benefit Determiner or may continue to use the same Benefit Determiner, or
         in the event said firm does not accept its designation as Benefit
         Determiner or accepts said designation and subsequently resigns, the
         Trustee shall designate a new Benefit Determiner; provided, however, any
         Benefit Determiner newly appointed by the Trustee shall be independent of
         the Corporation. In any event, the Benefit Determiner, or any successor
         thereto, shall be a
    
    
    
         signatory under the Trust Agreement. The Benefit Determiner may resign at
         any time by delivering written notice to the Corporation and Trustee;
         provided, however, that no such resignation shall take effect until the
         earlier of (a) sixty (60) days from the date of delivery of such notice to
         the Corporation or in the event a Change in Control occurs, the Trustee or
         (b) the appointment of a successor Benefit Determiner, or such shorter
         period as agreed upon in writing by the parties.
    
    2.2  Except for the records dealing solely with the funds and their investment,
         which shall be maintained by the Trustee, the Benefit Determiner shall
         maintain all the Plan participant and beneficiary records contemplated by
         this Trust Agreement.
    
    2.3  Upon the establishment of the Trust or as soon thereafter as practicable,
         the Corporation shall furnish to the Benefit Determiner all the information
         necessary to determine the benefits payable to or with respect to each
         participant and beneficiary under the Plan(s). The Corporation shall
         regularly, at least annually, and upon the earlier of a Potential Change in
         Control or Change in Control, furnish revised updated information to the
         Benefit Determiner. In the event the Corporation refuses or neglects to
         provide updated participant information, as contemplated herein, the
         Benefit Determiner shall be entitled to rely upon the most recent
         information furnished to it by the Corporation or the participant. The
         Corporation shall give notice to the Benefit Determiner at any time there
         is a change in benefits or personal information under the Plan(s).
    
    2.4  The Benefit Determiner (if the Corporation is unable or unwilling to do so)
         shall periodically prepare a benefit statement in respect to each
         participant's benefits under the Plan(s) and shall furnish a copy of same
         to the participant or his or her beneficiary and to the Corporation.
    
    
    
    2.5  Upon the direction of the Corporation, before or after a Potential Change
         in Control or Change in Control occurs, or upon the proper application,
         after a Change in Control occurs, of a participant or beneficiary of a
         deceased participant who is entitled to benefits under the Plan(s) to the
         Trustee, the Corporation, or if the Corporation is unable, unwilling or
         otherwise refuses to do so, the Benefit Determiner, shall prepare a
         certification to the Trustee that a participant's or beneficiary's benefits
         under the Plan(s) have become payable. Such certification shall include the
         amount of such benefits, the manner of payment and personal information
         regarding the participant or beneficiary, including the participant's or
         beneficiary's name, social security number, and last known address.
    
    2.6  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Benefit Determiner, if
         required by this Trust, shall calculate the benefit of each participant, or
         beneficiary under a Plan. To the extent a participant's, or his or her
         beneficiary's, benefit is payable from a Plan, the Benefit Determiner shall
         have full discretionary authority to resolve any question which shall arise
         under the Plan as to any person's eligibility for benefits, the calculation
         of benefits, the form, commencement date, frequency, duration of payment,
         or the identity of the beneficiary. Such question shall be resolved by the
         Benefit Determiner under rules uniformly applicable to all person(s) or
         employee(s) similarly situated.
    
    2.7  Upon the receipt of such certified statement and such appropriate Federal,
         state and local tax withholding information as may be available from the
         Corporation or the Benefit Determiner, the Trustee, upon direction from the
         Corporation, (or in the case of a Change in Control, if the Corporation is
         unable, unwilling, or otherwise refuses to do so, upon direction of the
         Benefit Determiner) shall, as soon as practicable, commence cash
         distributions from the Trust in
    
    
    
         accordance therewith to the person or persons so indicated, and with
         respect to taxes required to be withheld, to the Corporation, and the
         Benefit Determiner shall charge the appropriate Account(s) under the Trust.
         The Trustee shall furnish a copy of such certification to the participant
         or beneficiary of the deceased participant. The Corporation or an
         associated company, as the case may be, shall have full responsibility for
         the payment of all withholding taxes to the appropriate taxing authority
         and shall furnish each participant or beneficiary with the appropriate tax
         information form evidencing such payment and the amount thereof.
    
    2.8  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Corporation on behalf
         of itself or any associated company, instead of the Trustee, may make
         payment of benefits directly to Plan participants or their beneficiaries as
         they become due under the terms of the Plan(s). The Corporation shall
         notify the Trustee or the Benefit Determiner of its decision to make
         payment of benefits directly prior to the time amounts are payable to
         participants or their beneficiaries.
    
    2.9  Nothing provided in this Trust Agreement shall relieve the Corporation or
         any of the participating associated companies of their obligations and
         liabilities to pay the benefits provided under the Plan(s) except to the
         extent such obligations and liabilities are met by application of Trust
         assets or by payments made directly by the Corporation or an associated
         company, as the case may be.
    
                                       ARTICLE III
    
         CORPORATION RESPONSIBILITY REGARDING DOCUMENTATION, CONTRIBUTIONS, AND
                                     INDEMNIFICATION
    
    3.1  The Corporation shall provide the Trustee and Benefit Determiner with a
         certified copy
    
    
    
         of the Plan(s) and all amendments thereto and of the resolutions of the
         Board of Directors of the Corporation approving the Plan(s) and all
         amendments thereto, promptly upon their adoption. After the execution of
         this Trust Agreement, the Corporation shall promptly file with the Trustee
         and the Benefit Determiner a certified list of the names and specimen
         signatures of those officers of the Corporation and any delegate authorized
         to act for it. The Corporation shall promptly notify the Trustee and the
         Benefit Determiner of the addition or deletion of any person's name to or
         from such list, respectively. Until receipt by the Trustee and/or the
         Benefit Determiner of notice that any person is no longer authorized to so
         act, the Trustee or the Benefit Determiner may continue to rely on the
         authority of the person. All certifications, notices and directions by any
         such person or persons to the Trustee or the Benefit Determiner shall be in
         writing signed by such person or persons. The Trustee and the Benefit
         Determiner may rely on any such certification, notice or direction
         purporting to have been signed by or on behalf of such person or persons
         that the Trustee or the Benefit Determiner believes to have been signed
         thereby. The Trustee and the Benefit Determiner may rely on any
         certification, notice or direction of the Corporation that the Trustee or
         the Benefit Determiner believes to have been signed by a duly authorized
         officer or agent of the Corporation. The Trustee and the Benefit Determiner
         shall have no responsibility for acting or not acting in reliance upon any
         certification, notice or directions believed by the Trustee or the Benefit
         Determiner to have been so signed by a duly authorized officer or agent of
         the Corporation. The Corporation shall be responsible for keeping accurate
         books and records with respect to the employees of the Corporation and
         associated companies, their compensation and their rights and interests in
         the Trust under the Plan(s). The Trustee may rely on all certifications
         issued by the Benefit Determiner without any obligation to verify the
         accuracy of the calculations or information contained therein.
    
    
    
    3.2  The Corporation and each associated company shall make its contributions to
         the Trust in accordance with appropriate corporate action. The Trustee
         shall have the responsibility, after the earlier of a Potential Change in
         Control or Change in Control, to compel the Corporation or associated
         company under Section 1.5 hereof to make additional deposits or take other
         action to compel payments in amounts determined by the Benefit Determiner
         to be necessary, in accordance with Section 1.5, to fully fund the Trust to
         pay all benefits to which participants or beneficiaries of deceased
         participants are entitled under the Plan(s). The Trustee shall not be held
         responsible for the Corporation's or associated companies' refusal to fund
         as required herein. Any such contributions or payments shall be made to the
         Trust and shall be properly allocated to the appropriate Accounts. If more
         than one Plan is covered by the Trust or if more than one employer is
         participating in the Trust, the Corporation and the associated companies
         shall indicate the amount of its contributions intended for each Plan and
         for each employer's Account. The Trustee shall also have the responsibility
         to compel the Corporation and associated companies to make, after the
         occurrence of the earlier of a Potential Change in Control or Change in
         Control, the required contributions under Article X to the Legal Defense
         Fund. The Corporation shall be required to notify the Trustee of the
         occurrence of any Potential Change in Control or Change in Control as
         promptly as practicable following the occurrence thereof. Anything else
         contained in this Section 3.2 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
         shall not have the responsibility to compel the Corporation or the
         associated companies to make the contributions required pursuant to Section
         1.5 or Article X hereof unless and until the Trustee has actual knowledge
         or has received notice from the Corporation that either a Potential Change
         in Control or Change in Control, as applicable, shall have occurred.
    
    
    
    3.3  The Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless the Trustee for any
         liability or expenses, including without limitation reasonable attorney's
         fees, incurred by the Trustee with respect to holding, managing, investing
         or otherwise administering the Trust, other than those resulting from the
         Trustee's gross negligence or willful misconduct.
    
    3.4  The Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless the Benefit Determiner
         for any liability or expenses, including without limitation reasonable
         attorney's fees, incurred by the Benefit Determiner with respect to keeping
         the participants' benefits records and reporting thereon, certifying
         benefit information to all parties, including the Trustee, participants or
         beneficiaries, and the Corporation, and any other business properly coming
         before the Benefit Determiner in connection to carrying out its obligations
         under this Trust Agreement, other than those resulting from the Benefit
         Determiner's gross negligence or willful misconduct.
    
    3.5  If the Trustee or the Benefit Determine undertakes or defends any
         litigation arising in connection with this Trust, including, but not
         limited to any litigation undertaken or defended against the Corporation,
         the Corporation agrees to indemnify the Trustee and the Benefit Determiner
         against the Trustee's or the Benefit Determiner's reasonable costs,
         expenses and liabilities (including, without limitation, attorney's fees
         and expenses) relating thereto and to be primarily liable for such
         payments. If the Corporation does not pay such costs, expenses and
         liabilities in a reasonably timely manner, the Trustee or the Benefit
         Determine may obtain payment from the Trust other than the Legal Defense
         Fund, except as permitted under Section 1.6 and Article X. The Corporation
         or associated company shall reimburse the Trust for any such payments.
    
    
    
                                       ARTICLE IV
    
       TRUSTEE RESPONSIBILITY REGARDING PAYMENTS TO PARTICIPANTS AND BENEFICIARIES
                               WHEN EMPLOYER IS INSOLVENT
    
    4.1  If a participating employer is Insolvent, as hereinafter defined, the
         Trustee shall, subject to Section 4.2 hereof, cease payment of benefits to
         Plan participants of that Insolvent employer and their beneficiaries. The
         Corporation or an associated company, as the case may be, shall be
         considered "Insolvent" for purposes of this Trust Agreement if (a) the
         Corporation or the associated company is unable to pay its debts as they
         become due, or (b) the Corporation or the associated company is subject to
         a pending proceeding as a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy Code.
         Payments to Plan participants and their beneficiaries of an employer who is
         not Insolvent shall not be affected by the Insolvency of another employer.
    
    4.2  At all times during the continuance of this Trust, as provided in Section
         1.4 hereof, the principal and income of the Trust held for the benefit of a
         particular employer shall be subject to claims of general creditors of that
         employer under Federal and state law as set forth below.
    
         (a)  The Board of Directors of the Corporation and the Chief Executive
              Officer of the Corporation shall have the duty to inform the Trustee
              in writing of the Corporation's or any of the associated companies'
              Insolvency. If a person claiming to be a creditor of the Corporation
              or of an associated company alleges in writing to Trustee that the
              Corporation or an associated company has become Insolvent, the Trustee
              shall determine whether the Corporation or an associated company is
              Insolvent and, pending such determination, the Trustee shall
              discontinue payment of benefits to Plan participants of that employer
              and their beneficiaries.
    
    
    
         (b)  Unless the Trustee has actual knowledge of the Corporation's or an
              associated company's Insolvency, or has received notice from the
              Corporation or a person claiming to be a creditor alleging that the
              Corporation or an associated company is Insolvent, the Trustee shall
              have no duty to inquire whether the Corporation or an associated
              company is Insolvent. The Trustee may in all events rely on such
              evidence concerning the Corporation's or an associated company's
              solvency as may be furnished to the Trustee and that provides the
              Trustee with a reasonable basis for making a determination concerning
              the Corporation's or an associated company's solvency.
    
         (c)  If at any time the Trustee has determined that the Corporation or an
              associated company is Insolvent, the Trustee shall discontinue and not
              make any payments to Plan participants of that employer or their
              beneficiaries and shall hold the assets of the Trust held for the
              benefit of the Corporation's or an associated company's, as the case
              may be, general creditors. Nothing in this Trust Agreement shall in
              any way diminish any rights of Plan participants or their
              beneficiaries to pursue their rights as general creditors of the
              Corporation or an associated company with respect to benefits due
              under the Plan(s) or otherwise at their own expense.
    
         (d)  The Trustee shall resume the payment of benefits to Plan participants
              and their beneficiaries in accordance with Article II of this Trust
              Agreement only after the Trustee has determined that the affected
              employer is not Insolvent (or is no longer Insolvent).
    
    4.3  Provided that there are sufficient assets held on behalf of a participating
         employer, if the Trustee discontinues the payment of benefits from the
         Trust to Plan participants and their beneficiaries pursuant to Section 4.2
         hereof and subsequently resumes such payments, the first payment following
         such discontinuance shall include the aggregate amount of all payments due
         to such Plan
    
    
    
         participants and their beneficiaries under the terms of the Plan(s) for the
         period of such discontinuance, less the aggregate amount of any payments
         made to such Plan participants and their beneficiaries by the Corporation
         or an associated company in lieu of the payments provided for hereunder
         during any such period of discontinuance. If Trust assets held in Account
         on behalf of the Corporation or associated company are insufficient to make
         such payments in full, payments shall be paid on a pro rata basis
         determined by comparing the assets available under the Account to the total
         payments due under the Plan(s) to the participants of that company and
         their beneficiaries.
    
                                        ARTICLE V
    
                                  INVESTMENT AUTHORITY
    
    5.1  Prior to a Potential Change in Control or Change in Control, the
         Corporation shall direct the Trustee as to the investment of all assets
         within the Trust. Subsequent to a Potential Change in Control or Change in
         Control, the Trustee shall have full discretion in and sole responsibility
         for investment, management and control of the Trust assets. The Trustee
         shall exercise this responsibility consistent with the underlying purpose
         of the Trust and consistent with the underlying purpose of a Plan under
         which participants have made deemed investments elections with respect to
         their benefits under the Plan. Plans in which deemed investment elections
         have been made should be invested by the Trustee in amounts that
         approximate participant liabilities and in investments that replicate those
         elections, or in similar type investments, as determined by the Trustee.
         Plans for which no distinct deemed investment elections are made by
         participants or by the Plan should be invested in a suitable portfolio of
         high quality government and agency securities providing for returns that
         approximate the discount rate applicable to the Plan. Trustee may rely upon
         information provided by Benefit Determiner in order to determine investment
         selections. Trustee may reallocate investments periodically to update the
         investment mix in accordance with
    
    
    
         Section 5.1 as often as Trustee deems appropriate. An investment direction
         by the Corporation shall be ineffective for investments made after a Change
         in Control occurs. All rights associated with Trust assets shall be
         exercised by the Trustee or the person designated by the Trustee, and shall
         in no event be exercisable by participants or beneficiaries.
    
    5.2  Powers of Trustee. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Trust
         Agreement, the Trustee is authorized and empowered:
    
         (a)  To purchase, hold, sell, invest and reinvest the Trust assets,
              together with income therefrom;
    
         (b)  To hold, manage and control all property at any time forming part of
              the Trust assets;
    
         (c)  To sell, convey, transfer, exchange and otherwise dispose of the Trust
              assets from time to time in such manner, for such consideration and
              upon such terms and conditions as it shall determine;
    
         (d)  To make payments from the Trust as provided hereunder;
    
         (e)  To cause any property of the Trust to be issued, held or registered in
              the individual name of the Trustee, or in the name of its nominee, or
              in such form that title will pass by delivery; provided, however, that
              the records of the Trustee shall indicate the true ownership of such
              property; and
    
         (f)  To do all other acts necessary or desirable for the proper
              administration of the Trust assets as though the absolute owner
              thereof, and to exercise all the further rights, powers, options and
              privileges granted, provided for or vested in trustees generally under
              applicable Federal or New York law, as amended from time to time, it
              being intended that, except as herein otherwise provided, the powers
              conferred upon the Trustee herein shall not be
    
    
    
              construed as being in limitation of any authority conferred by law,
              but shall be construed as in addition thereto.
    
    5.3  Notwithstanding anything else contained herein to the contrary, prior to
         the occurrence of a Change in Control, the Corporation may contribute
         securities of the Corporation (including treasury and authorized but
         unissued securities) to the Trust or may direct the Trustee to invest
         assets of the Trust in such securities, and shall direct the Trustee as to
         the continued holding of any Corporation securities, including treasury
         securities and authorized but unissued securities (whether contributed to
         the Trust by the Corporation or purchased at the direction of the
         Corporation); provided that the Corporation shall not make a contribution
         in the form of its stock or a direction to the Trustee to acquire or hold
         such stock by the Corporation shall not be controlling or in effect, unless
         and until the Trustee has a Registration Rights Agreement in effect with
         the Corporation. The Trustee shall, until a Change in Control occurs, vote
         any securities of the Corporation it owns in the same way (determined on a
         percentage basis) as employees vote their shares of the Corporation's stock
         under the International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. Retirement Investment
         Fund Plan. In the event of any tender or exchange offer for all or any part
         of any class of Corporation security, the Trustee shall, until a Change in
         Control occurs, accept or reject such offer as to all or any portion of
         such class of security held under the Trust in the same proportion as the
         employees accept or reject such tender or exchange offer with respect to
         their shares under the International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. Retirement
         Investment Fund Plan. The Corporation shall assure that aggregate
         information concerning the action taken with respect to Corporation stock
         by participants under that plan shall be promptly supplied by the trustee
         of that plan to the Trustee, while maintaining the confidentiality of
         instructions given by individual participants. Except in connection with a
         tender or exchange offer as described above, prior to a Change in Control
         securities of the Corporation held by the Trust will not be sold by the
         Trustee for the purpose of providing benefits hereunder or
    
    
    
         otherwise applied by the Trustee for such purpose. After such Change in
         Control occurs, the Trustee can, subject to applicable securities law
         requirements, sell or dispose of any Corporation securities it owns in
         order to pay benefits due under the Plan(s) or to pay expenses or
         liabilities arising under the Trust. The Corporation shall take such action
         and make such payments as are necessary to assure that the Trustee shall
         have full registration rights under Federal and state securities laws with
         respect to securities of the Corporation held by it. The Corporation shall
         indemnify the underwriters in any public offering of Corporation securities
         and pay all expenses related to such offering and if not paid by the
         Corporation such amounts shall be a charge against the Trust and shall
         constitute a lien in favor of the Trustee until paid by the Corporation.
    
    5.4  Except as provided in Section 5.3 hereof, the Corporation shall have the
         right at any time, and from time to time, in its sole discretion, to
         substitute assets of equal fair market value for any asset held by the
         Trust, provided that after a Change in Control occurs only cash can be
         substituted for assets held by the Trust. This right is exercisable by the
         Corporation in a nonfiduciary capacity without the approval or consent of
         any person in a fiduciary capacity. Notwithstanding anything in this
         Agreement to the contrary, the Trustee shall have no duty to review any
         assets substituted or any assets otherwise held prior to a Change in
         Control with respect to prudence or proper diversification.
    
                                       ARTICLE VI
    
       No DIVERSION OF ASSETS AFTER CHANGE IN CONTROL BEFORE FULL BENEFIT PAYMENT
    
    6.1  After a Change in Control occurs, the Corporation shall have no right or
         power to direct the Trustee to return to the Corporation or to divert to
         others any of the Trust assets before all payment of benefits has been made
         to Plan participants and their beneficiaries pursuant to the terms of the
         Plan(s).
    
    
    
    6.2  Prior to the occurrence of a Change in Control, the Corporation shall be
         permitted to withdraw from the Trust all or a portion of the assets of the
         Trust; provided that the provisions of this Section 6.2 shall not be
         applicable during the pendency of or during the one year period following
         the cessation of a Potential Change in Control. In addition, prior to the
         occurrence of a Change in Control, any cash dividends paid on shares of
         stock of the Corporation held in the Trust shall be transferred by the
         Trustee to the Corporation as soon as administratively practicable
         following the date or dates such dividends are paid.
    
                                       ARTICLE VII
    
                                  DISPOSITION OF INCOME
    
    7.1  Except as provided in Section 6.2 hereof, during the term of this Trust,
         all income received by the Trust, net of expenses and taxes, shall be
         accumulated and reinvested and the Corporation and associated companies
         shall pay any Federal, state or local taxes on the Trust or any part
         thereof and on the income therefrom attributable to the assets held on
         their behalf under the Trust.
    
                                      ARTICLE VIII
    
                                  ACCOUNTING BY TRUSTEE
    
    8.1  The Trustee shall keep accurate and detailed records of all investments,
         receipts, disbursements, and all other transactions made or required to be
         made, including such records as shall be agreed upon in writing between the
         Corporation and Trustee. Within 30 days following the close of each
         calendar year and within 30 days after the removal or resignation of the
         Trustee, the Trustee shall deliver to the Corporation a written account of
         its administration of the Trust during such year or during the period from
         the close of the last preceding year to the date of such removal or
         resignation, setting forth all investments, receipts, disbursements and
         other transactions effected by
    
    
    
         it, including a description of all securities and investments purchased and
         sold with the cost or net proceeds of such purchases or sales (accrued
         interest paid or receivable being shown separately), and showing all cash,
         securities and other property held in the Trust at the end of such year or
         as of the date of such removal or resignation, as the case may be. Upon the
         expiration of 90 days following the filing of each written account with the
         Corporation, the Trustee shall be forever released and discharged from all
         liability and further accountability to the Corporation and any other
         person with respect to accuracy of such account and the propriety of all
         acts or failures to act reflected in such account. The foregoing sentence
         shall not apply if within the 90-day period, a written objection to the
         filing is sent to the Trustee by the Corporation; provided that such
         sentence shall apply if the written objection is resolved by the Trustee to
         the Corporation's satisfaction.
    
                                       ARTICLE IX
    
                                RESPONSIBILITY OF TRUSTEE
    
    9.1  (a)  The Trustee shall act with the care, skill, prudence and diligence
              under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting
              in like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the
              conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims;
              provided, however, that the Trustee shall incur no liability to any
              person for any action taken pursuant to a direction, request or
              approval given by the Corporation or by the Benefit Determiner which
              is contemplated by, and in conformity with, the terms of the Plan(s)
              or this Trust Agreement and is given in writing by the Corporation or
              by the Benefit Determiner. Notwithstanding anything in the previous
              sentence to the contrary, the Trustee may assume that any calculation
              made by the Benefit Determiner has been made in accordance with terms
              of the Plan(s). In the event of a dispute between the Corporation
    
    
    
              and a party, the Trustee may, subject the provisions of Section 11.1,
              at the expense of the Trust apply to a court of competent jurisdiction
              to resolve the dispute.
    
         (b)  The Trustee or the Benefit Determiner may consult with legal counsel
              (who may also be counsel for the Corporation generally) with respect
              to any of its duties or obligations hereunder at the expense of the
              Trust, subject to the provisions of Section 11.1.
    
         (c)  The Trustee may hire agents, accountants, actuaries, investment
              advisors, financial consultants or other professionals to assist it in
              performing any of its duties or obligations hereunder at the expense
              of the Trust, subject to the provisions of Section 11.1.
    
         (d)  The Trustee shall have, without exclusion, all powers conferred on
              trustees by applicable law, unless expressly provided otherwise
              herein; provided, however, that if an insurance policy is held at the
              direction of the Corporation as an asset of the Trust, the Trustee
              shall have no power to name a beneficiary of the policy other than the
              Trust, to assign the policy (as distinct from conversion of the policy
              to a different form) other than to a successor trustee, or to loan to
              any person the proceeds of any borrowing against such policy, unless
              directed to do so by the Corporation to either keep the policy in
              force or to pay benefits.
    
         (e)  Notwithstanding any powers granted to the Trustee pursuant to this
              Trust Agreement or applicable law, the Trustee shall not have any
              power that could give this Trust the objective of carrying on a
              business and dividing the gains therefrom, within the meaning of
              Section 301.7701-2 of the Procedure and Administrative Regulations
              promulgated pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.
    
    
    
                                        ARTICLE X
    
                                   LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
    
    10.1 (a)  The Trustee shall maintain for bookkeeping purposes a separate account
              (the "Legal Defense Fund") to provide for the payment of legal
              expenses incurred by the Trustee after a Change in Control to protect
              participants' or their beneficiaries' entitlement to benefits under
              the Plan(s) after a Change in Control. The amounts credited to the
              Legal Defense Fund cannot be used to pay benefits due under the
              Plan(s) or expenses of the Trust except as provided herein. Separate
              bookkeeping accounts shall be maintained by Trustee to identify
              Corporation and associated companies contributions to the Legal
              Defense Fund The rights of creditors of any associated company Legal
              Defense Fund shall be limited to the assets held for that company
              under the trust.
    
              The Corporation or associated company within seven days following the
              earlier of a Potential Change in Control or Change in Control, shall
              contribute cash to the Legal Defense Fund in an amount not less than
              10% of the total benefit liability under the Plan(s) as determined by
              the Benefit Determiner under Section 1.5. The Corporation or
              associated company may make all or a portion of that contribution at
              any time prior to the earlier of a Potential Change in Control or
              Change in Control.
    
         (b)  The Trustee shall use the funds in the Legal Defense Fund to pay for
              reasonable legal and other expenses incurred by the Trustee or Benefit
              Determiner in protecting the participants' and beneficiaries'
              entitlement to benefits under the Plan(s) after a Change in Control.
    
    
    
         (c)  In operating under the terms of this Article X the Trustees shall
              pursue all claims of participants and beneficiaries for benefits due
              them under the Plan(s) other than those claims which would be
              considered frivolous,
    
         (d)  The assets in the Legal Defense Fund can be used, if necessary, to pay
              benefits to participants and beneficiaries and to pay expenses
              reimbursable under Section 3.5 but only after the satisfaction of
              liabilities attributable to participants' and beneficiaries' benefits
              under the Plan as certified by the Benefit Determiner.
    
         (e)  The provisions of Article VI are applicable to this Article X.
    
                                       ARTICLE XI
    
               COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES OF TRUSTEE AND BENEFIT DETERMINER
    
    11.1 The Corporation shall pay to the Trustee its reasonable expenses for the
         management and administration of the Trust, including without limitation
         advances for or prompt reimbursement of reasonable expenses of counsel and
         other agents employed by the Trustee. The Corporation shall also pay to the
         Trustee compensation for its services as Trustee hereunder, the amount of
         which shall be agreed upon from time to time by the Corporation and the
         Trustee in writing; provided, however, that if the Trustee forwards an
         amended fee schedule to the Corporation requesting its agreement thereto
         and the Corporation fails to object thereto within forty-five (45) days of
         its receipt, the amended fee schedule shall be deemed to be agreed upon by
         the Corporation and the Trustee. Such expenses and compensation shall be a
         charge on the Trust and shall constitute a lien in favor of the Trustee
         until paid by the Corporation.
    
    11.2 The Corporation shall pay to the Benefit Determiner reasonable compensation
         for its services as the Benefit Determiner hereunder, the amount of which
         shall be agreed upon from time to time by
    
    
    
         the Corporation (or the Trustee in the event of a Change in Control) and
         the Benefit Determiner in writing, and shall reimburse reasonable expenses,
         including legal expenses, of the Benefit Determiner in fulfilling its
         obligations under the Trust. Such expenses and compensation shall be a
         charge on the Trust and shall constitute a lien in favor of the Benefit
         Determiner until paid by the Corporation.
    
                                       ARTICLE XII
    
         RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE AND APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE
    
    12.1 The Trustee may resign at any time by delivering written notice thereof to
         the Corporation; provided, however, that no such resignation shall take
         effect until the earlier of (a) sixty (60) days from the date of delivery
         of such notice to the Corporation or (b) the appointment of a successor
         trustee, or such shorter period as agreed upon in writing by the parties.
    
    12.2 The Trustee may be removed at any time by the Corporation before or after a
         Change in Control described in Section 16.3 pursuant to a resolution of the
         Board of Directors of the Corporation, upon delivery to the Trustee of a
         certified copy of such resolution and sixty (60) days' written notice of
         (a) such removal and (b) the appointment of a successor trustee, or such
         shorter period as agreed upon in writing by the parties; provided that
         after a Change in Control, such removal shall occur only if consented to by
         two-thirds of the participants covered under the Trust; and further
         provided, such participant consent shall not be required after the sixth
         anniversary of a Change in Control.
    
    12.3 Upon the resignation or removal of the Trustee, a successor trustee with
         balance sheet assets of at least 40 billion dollars shall be appointed by
         the Corporation. Such successor trustee shall be a
    
    
    
         bank or trust company established under the laws of the United States or a
         State within the United States. Such appointment shall take effect upon the
         delivery to the Trustee of (a) a written appointment of such successor
         trustee, duly executed by the Corporation, and (b) a written acceptance by
         such successor trustee, duly executed thereby. Any successor trustee shall
         have all the rights, powers and duties granted the Trustee hereunder.
    
    12.4 If, within sixty (60) days of the delivery of the Trustee's written notice
         of resignation, a successor trustee shall not have been appointed, the
         Trustee may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the
         appointment of a successor trustee.
    
    12.5 Upon the resignation or removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a
         successor trustee, and after the acceptance and approval of its account,
         the Trustee shall transfer and deliver the Trust to such successor trustee.
         Under no circumstances shall the Trustee transfer or deliver the Trust to
         any successor trustee which is not a bank or trust company as hereinabove
         defined.
    
    12.6 If the Trustee resigns or is removed, a successor trustee shall be
         appointed, in accordance with Section 12.3, by the effective date of
         resignation or removal under Section 12.1 or 12.2 of this Article. If no
         such appointment has been made, the Trustee may apply to a court of
         competent jurisdiction for appointment of a successor trustee or for
         instructions. All expenses of the Trustee in connection with the proceeding
         shall be allowed as administrative expenses of the Trust.
    
    
    
                                      ARTICLE XIII
    
                                        AMENDMENT
    
    13.1 This Trust Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, including
         Appendix A hereof, at any time and from time to time, by the Corporation,
         pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, by
         delivery to the Trustee of a certified copy of such resolution and a
         written instrument duly executed and acknowledged in the same form as this
         Trust Agreement, except that the duties and responsibilities of the Trustee
         shall not be increased without the Trustee's written consent. The ability
         to amend shall include the right to spin off the assets and/or liabilities
         attributable to a participating employer under this Trust to an existing or
         newly-established Trust or other vehicle which provides the same protection
         of a participant's interest as this Trust does. The approval of such
         spinoff by the affected employer shall be required. Any such spinoff shall
         be consistent with the rules used under Section 414(1) of the Internal
         Revenue Code applicable to pension plans qualified under Section 401 (a) of
         the Internal Revenue Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) no such
         amendment shall conflict with the substantive terms of the Plan(s) or
         permit withdrawal of any funds held under the Trust except as permitted
         under Article V or VI and (ii) during the pendency of a Potential Change in
         Control, during the one-year period following the cessation of a Potential
         Change in Control, and following the occurrence of a Change in Control
         (such periods being referred to collectively as the "Protected Period"),
         this Trust Agreement may not be amended by the Corporation in any manner
         adverse to participants and beneficiaries of the Plans, other than for
         reasons to maintain, on the advice of counsel, the Trust's status as an
         unfunded grantor trust.
    
    
    
                                       ARTICLE XIV
    
                                       TERMINATION
    
    14.1 The Trust established pursuant to this Trust Agreement may be terminated by
         the Corporation at any time; provided, however, that during the Protected
         Period, the Trust may not be terminated by the Corporation prior to the
         satisfaction of all liabilities with respect to all participants in the
         Plan(s) and their beneficiaries and all other liabilities of the Trust.
         Upon receipt of a written certification from the Benefit Determiner that
         all liabilities have been satisfied with respect to all participants in the
         Plan(s) and their beneficiaries and upon satisfaction of all other
         liabilities of the Trust, the Corporation, pursuant to a resolution of its
         Board of Directors, may terminate the Trust upon delivery to the Trustee of
         (a) a certified copy of such resolution, (b) an original certification of
         the Benefit Determine that all such liabilities (including for this purpose
         unpaid Trustee and Benefit Determiner fees and expenses other than fees and
         expenses to be paid from the Legal Defense Fund) have been satisfied and
         (c) a written instrument of termination duly executed and acknowledged in
         the same form as this Trust Agreement.
    
    14.2 Upon the termination of the Trust in accordance with Section 14.1, the
         Trustee shall, after the acceptance and approval of its account, distribute
         their share of the assets of the Trust (including the assets of the Legal
         Defense Fund) to the Corporation and to the associated companies, as the
         case may be. Upon completing such distribution, the Trustee shall be
         relieved and discharged. The powers of the Trustee shall continue as long
         as any part of the Trust remains in its possession.
    
    
    
                                       ARTICLE XV
    
                                      MISCELLANEOUS
    
    15.1 This Trust Agreement shall be construed and interpreted under, and the
         Trust hereby created shall be governed by, the laws of the State of New
         York insofar as such laws do not contravene any applicable Federal laws,
         rules or regulations.
    
    15.2 Neither the gender nor the number (singular or plural) of any word shall be
         construed to exclude another gender or number when a different gender or
         number would be appropriate.
    
    15.3 No right or interest of any participant or beneficiary under the Plan(s) in
         the Trust shall be transferable or assignable or shall be subject to
         alienation, anticipation or encumbrance, and no right or interest of any
         participant or beneficiary in the Plan(s) or in the Trust shall be subject
         to any garnishment, attachment or execution, except as otherwise required
         by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trust shall at all times remain
         subject to claims of general creditors of the Corporation and associated
         companies, as the case may be, in the event the Corporation or an
         associated company becomes Insolvent as provided in this Trust Agreement.
    
    15.4 This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of any
         successor to the Corporation or its business as the result of merger,
         consolidation, reorganization, transfer of assets or otherwise and any
         subsequent successor thereto. In the event of such merger, consolidation,
         reorganization, transfer of assets or other similar transaction, the
         successor to the Corporation or its business or any subsequent successor
         thereto shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its successorship
         and furnish the Trustee and the Benefit Determiner with the information
         specified in Section 3.1 of this Trust Agreement. In no event shall any
         such transaction described herein
    
    
    
         suspend or delay the rights of the Plan participants or the beneficiaries
         of deceased participants to receive benefits hereunder.
    
    15.5 Communications to the Trustee shall be sent to the Trustee or as directed
         by the Trustee to the Benefit Determiner. No communication shall be binding
         upon the Trustee or the Benefit Determiner until it is received in written
         form by the Trustee or the Benefit Determiner. Communication to the
         Corporation shall be sent in written form to the Corporation's principal
         offices or to such other address as the Corporation may specify in writing.
         Communication shall be deemed received upon the date of delivery if given
         personally or, if given by mail, upon receipt thereof.
    
    15.6 Any provision of this Trust Agreement prohibited by law shall be
         ineffective to the extent of any such prohibition, without invalidating the
         remaining provisions hereof.
    
    15.7 Benefits payable to Plan participants and their beneficiaries under this
         Trust Agreement may not be anticipated, assigned (either at law or in
         equity), alienated, pledged, encumbered or subjected to attachment,
         garnishment, levy, execution or other legal or equitable process, except as
         otherwise required by law.
    
    15.8 Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding the rights of
         the Trustee and Benefit Determiner under Section 3.3, 3.4, 3.5. 7.1, 11.1,
         and 11.2 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
    
    
    
                                       ARTICLE XVI
    
                    POTENTIAL CHANGE IN CONTROL OR CHANGE IN CONTROL
    
    16.1 Each participant and beneficiary of a deceased participant is an intended
         beneficiary under this Trust, and shall, after a Change in Control occurs,
         be entitled to enforce all terms and provisions hereof with the same force
         and effect as if such person had been a party hereto at his own expense.
    
    16.2 For purposes of this Trust, a Potential Change in Control shall be deemed
         to have occurred if there shall have occurred any of the following:
    
         (i)   The Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would
               constitute a Change in Control;
    
         (ii)  The Company or any "person" as such term is used in Section 13(d) and
               14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
               "Exchange Act") (other than the Company, any trustee or other
               fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the
               Company, or any company owned, directly or indirectly, by the
               shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as
               their ownership of stock of the Company), publicly announces its
               intention to take or to consider taking such action which, if
               consummated, would constitute a Change in Control; or
    
         (iii) Any "person"' (as referred to in (ii) above), acquires voting
               securities of the Company after September 1, 2000 and immediately
               thereafter is a "15% Beneficial Owner." For purposes of this
               provision, a "15% Beneficial Owner" shall mean a person who is the
               "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act),
               directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 15%
               or more of the combined voting
    
    
    
               power of the Company's then-outstanding voting securities; provided,
               however, that the term "15% Beneficial Owner" shall not include any
               person who was a beneficial owner of outstanding voting securities of
               the Company at February 20, 1990, or any person or persons who was or
               becomes a fiduciary of any such person or persons who is, or in the
               aggregate are, a "15% Beneficial Owner" (a "PCIC Existing
               Shareholder"), including any group that may be formed which is
               comprised solely of PCIC Existing Shareholders, unless and until such
               time after February 20, 1990 as any such PCIC Existing Shareholder
               shall have become the beneficial owner (other than by means of a
               stock dividend, stock split, gift, inheritance or receipt or exercise
               of, or accrual of any right to exercise, a stock option granted by
               the Company or receipt or settlement of any other stock-related award
               granted by the Company) by purchase of any additional voting
               securities of the Company; and provided further, that the term "15%
               Beneficial Owner" shall not include any person who shall become the
               beneficial owner of 15% or more of the combined voting power of the
               Company's then-outstanding voting securities solely as a result of an
               acquisition by the Company of its voting securities, until such time
               thereafter as such person shall become the beneficial owner (other
               than by means of a stock dividend or stock split) of any additional
               voting securities and becomes a 15% Beneficial Owner in accordance
               with this Section 16.2. The Trustee may rely upon Corporation's
               notification as to the occurrence of a Potential Change in Control.
               An authorized designee will notify Trustee of such occurrence in
               writing.
    
    16.3 For purposes of this Trust, a Change in Control shall be deemed to have
         occurred if there shall have occurred any of the following:
    
    
    
         (i)   Any "person," (as defined in Section 16.2 hereof), acquires voting
               securities of the Company and immediately thereafter is a "40%
               Beneficial Owner." For purposes of this provision, a "40% Beneficial
               Owner" shall mean a person who is the "beneficial owner" (as defined
               in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of
               securities of the Company representing 40% or more of the combined
               voting power of the Company's then-outstanding voting securities;
               provided, however, that the term "40% Beneficial Owner" shall not
               include any person who was a beneficial owner of outstanding voting
               securities of the Company at February 20, 1990, or any person or
               persons who was or becomes a fiduciary of any such person or persons
               who is, or in the aggregate, are a "40% Beneficial Owner" (an
               "Existing Shareholder"), including any group that may be formed which
               is comprised solely of Existing Shareholders, unless and until such
               time after February 20, 1990 as any such Existing Shareholder shall
               have become the beneficial owner (other than by means of a stock
               dividend, stock split, gift inheritance or receipt or exercise of, or
               accrual of any right to exercise, a stock option granted by the
               Company or receipt or settlement of any other stock-related award
               granted by the Company) by purchase of any additional voting
               securities of the Company; and provided further, that the term "40%
               Beneficial Owner" shall not include any person who shall become the
               beneficial owner of 40% or more of the combined voting power of the
               Company's then-outstanding voting securities solely as a result of an
               acquisition by the Company of its voting securities, until such time
               thereafter as such person shall become the beneficial owner (other
               than by means of a stock dividend or stock split) of any additional
               voting securities and becomes a 40% Beneficial Owner in accordance
               with this Section 16.3;
    
         (ii)  Individuals who on September 1, 2000 constitute the Board, and any
               new director (other than a director whose initial assumption of
               office is in connection with an actual or
    
    
    
               threatened election consent, including but not limited to a consent
               solicitation, relating to the election of directors of the Company)
               whose election by the Board or nomination for election by the
               Company's shareholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds
               (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were directors
               on September 1, 2000 or whose election or nomination for election was
               previously so approved or recommended, cease for any reason to
               constitute at least a majority thereof;
    
         (iii) There is consummated a merger, consolidation, recapitalization, or
               reorganization of the Company, or a reverse stock split of any class
               of voting securities of the Company, if, immediately following
               consummation of any of the foregoing, either (A) individuals who,
               immediately prior to such consummation, constitute the Board do not
               constitute at least a majority of the members of the board of
               directors of the Company or the surviving or parent entity, as the
               case may be, or (B) the voting securities of the Company outstanding
               immediately prior to such consummation do not represent (either by
               remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of
               a surviving or parent entity) at least 60% or more of the combined
               voting power of the outstanding voting securities of the Company or
               such surviving or parent entity; or
    
         (iv)  The shareholders of the Company have approved a plan of complete
               liquidation of the Company or there is consummated an agreement for
               the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of
               the Company's assets (or any transaction having a similar effect).
    
    The Trustee may rely upon Corporation's notification as to the occurrence of a
    Change in Control. An authorized designee will notify Trustee of such occurrence
    in writing.
    
    
    
    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Trust Agreement as of the
    date written above.
    
                                            INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
    
                                            By /s/ Stephen A. Block
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                                               Name:  Stephen A. Block
                                               Title: Senior Vice President, General
                                                      Counsel & Secretary
    
    
                                            FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
    
    
                                            By /s/ Robert E. Hord Jr.
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                                               Name:  Robert E. Hord Jr.
                                               Title: Vice President
    
    
                                            BUCK CONSULTANTS INC.
    
    
                                            By Karl W. Lehwater
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                                               Name:  Karl W. Lehwater
                                               Title: Secretary
    
    
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                                       APPENDIX A
    
    The following plans and/or programs of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
    
    Management Incentive Compensation Plan
    
    Special Executive Bonus Plan
    
    Supplemental Retirement Investment Plan
    
    Supplemental Retirement Plan (Pension)
    
    Executive Separation Policy
    
    Post Employment Medical and Life Insurance Policy
    
    
    
    
    
    
                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
                       STOCK OPTION PLAN FOR NON-EMPOYEE DIRECTORS
    
          International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., a New York corporation (herein
    called "IFF"), hereby establishes the Stock Option Plan For Non-Employee
    Directors (herein called the "Plan") on the following terms and conditions:
    
          1. Purpose: To attract and retain the services of qualified independent
    directors of IFF who are not employees of IFF and provide additional incentive
    for such directors to work for the best interests of IFF and its shareholders.
    
          2. Method of Adoption: By the approval of the Board of Directors of IFF
    (herein called the "Board") and of the holders of a majority of IFF shares.
    
          3. Grant of Options: Options for 1,000 shares each will be automatically
    granted to each non-employee director in each year commencing in 1990 and ending
    in 1999, and each such grant in each year shall be made on the date of the
    Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of IFF in that year.
    
          4. Number of Shares: The Plan shall cover an aggregate of 100,000 shares
    of common stock of IFF of the par value of $.12 1/2 each. Either authorized and
    unissued shares or treasury shares may be used. If any options expire or
    terminate without being exercised in full, including options voluntarily
    surrendered for cancellation, the shares subject thereto which have not been
    purchased in accordance with the terms of such options shall be available for
    the grant of new options under the Plan.
    
          5. Purchase Price: The purchase price per share for any stock optioned at
    any time under this Plan shall be the fair market value thereof on the date of
    granting the option. Upon exercise of any stock option the director may pay for
    the stock covered by the stock option with Common Stock of IFF taken at its fair
    market value, providing the director has held such Common Stock for at least six
    months or such longer period as determined by the Board.
    
          6. Eligibility: All members of the Board who are not employees of IFF or
    one of its subsidiaries (including subsidiaries which may become such after
    adoption of this Plan), including any such members elected to the Board by the
    shareholders on the date of grant of an option.
    
          7. Directorship at the Time of Exercise of Options: Any stock option may
    be exercised by any director only so long as he or she remains a director of
    IFF, provided that if a director voluntarily resigns with the consent of the
    Board, if he or she becomes totally disabled or retires at or after age 65, he
    or she may exercise within 3 months thereafter (but not later than the
    expiration date of the option) the option as to the
    
    
    
    
    balance, if any, of the shares which the director was entitled to purchase under
    the terms of the option at the date of such resignation, disability or
    retirement. If a director dies while a director of IFF, his or her legal
    representatives, distributees or legatees, as the case may be, may exercise
    within 3 months thereafter (but not later than the expiration date of the
    option) the option as to the balance, if any, of the shares which the director
    was entitled to purchase under the terms of the option at the date of his or her
    death or, in case such death occurs less than 48 months from the date of the
    grant of the option, that proportion of the shares covered by the option which
    the number of days in the period from the date of grant to the date of the
    director's death bears to the number 1460, less any shares previously purchased
    under the option.
    
          8. Individual Options: The maximum number of shares for which stock
    options may be granted to any individual under the Plan shall be 10,000.
    
          9. Exercise of Options: Each stock option may be exercised as follows: up
    to one-third of the shares covered at any time after 24 months from the date of
    grant, up to two-thirds of such shares at any time after 36 months from such
    date; and all the shares at any time after 48 months from such date. An option
    may not be exercised, if, in the opinion of counsel for the Company, exercise of
    the option or delivery of shares pursuant thereto might result in a violation of
    any law or regulation of an agency of government or have an adverse effect on
    the listing status or qualification of the Company shares on any securities
    exchange.
    
          10. Rights of Optionees Before Issuance of Stock Certificates: No optionee
    shall have any rights as a stockholder with respect to any shares covered by any
    stock option until the date of the issuance of the stock certificate for such
    shares following exercise of the options. No adjustment shall be made for
    dividends or other rights for which the record date is prior to the date such
    stock certificate is issued.
    
          11. Anti-Dilution Provisions: Each option agreement shall contain such
    provisions as the Board or the Committee shall deem to be appropriate, including
    provisions for appropriate adjustment of the option price and the number of
    shares covered, or both, to protect the optionee in the event of a
    reorganization, recapitalization, stock split, stock dividend, combination of
    shares, merger or consolidation (except as otherwise stated below) or in the
    event of any other change in the corporate capital structure of IFF. In the
    event of any such adjustment, the aggregate number and class of shares available
    under the Plan and the maximum number of shares as to which options may be
    granted to any director may also be appropriately adjusted.
    
          12. Nonassignability: No option shall be assignable or transferable by an
    optionee except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and an
    option shall be exercisable during his or her lifetime only by him or her.
    
    
    
    
          13. Administration: The Plan is intended to be self-operative to the
    maximum extent consistent with prudent business practice. Under no circumstances
    shall any individual or group of individuals exercise discretion with respect to
    designating the recipient of an option, the number of shares of Common Stock
    that are subject to an option, the date of grant of an option or the exercise
    price or dates of exercise of an option. Otherwise, the Plan shall be
    administered by vote of a majority of the Board, or by a majority of the Stock
    Option and Compensation Committee of the Board (herein called the "Committee").
    
          14. Acceleration of Option upon Merger or Consolidation: In the event of
    the merger or consolidation of IFF with or into another corporation as a result
    of which IFF is not the surviving corporation, then on written notice to the
    optionee given by the surviving corporation, the option may be exercised, as to
    the entire number of shares subject thereto, on and after the effective date of
    such merger or consolidation and the option shall cease and terminate as to any
    shares as to which it has not been exercised on a date 180 days after the
    effective date of such merger or consolidation or on the expiration date of such
    option, whichever is earlier.
    
          15. Agreements: Options issued under the Plan shall be evidenced by
    agreements in such form as the Board or the Committee may approve. The terms of
    such agreements shall comply with the applicable terms of the Plan contained
    herein. The option agreement shall not impose on IFF or its subsidiaries any
    obligation to continue any individual as a director for any period.
    
          16. Change in Control: In the event of a "change in control" of IFF, all
    options previously granted to a director shall become immediately exercisable in
    full, and he or she or his or her legal representatives, distributees or
    legatees in the event of the death of a director may exercise within 3 months
    thereafter (but not later than the respective expiration dates of the options)
    any and all outstanding options.
    
          "Change in control" shall mean the earliest to occur of any of the
    following events:
    
                (i) any person, corporation, partnership, association, trust or
    other entity, or any "group" as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities
    Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), shall hereafter become
    the "beneficial owner," as defined in Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange
    Act, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Corporation representing 40
    percent or more of the combined voting power of the Corporation's then
    outstanding securities; or
    
                (ii) persons not nominated by the Board in the Corporation's most
    recent proxy statement shall constitute a majority of the members of the Board.
    
    
    
    
          17. Interpretation: In the event of any difference of opinion between an
    optionee and IFF concerning the meaning or effect of the Plan, such difference
    shall be resolved by the Board.
    
          18. Compliance with Applicable Laws: All options granted under the Plan
    shall be non-statutory options not intended to qualify under Section 422A of the
    Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. No shares shall be offered under the
    Plan and no stock certificate shall be delivered upon exercise of options until
    such offering has been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
    and any other applicable governmental laws and regulations, unless in the
    opinion of counsel such offering is exempt from registration under such Act, and
    until IFF shall have complied with any applicable provisions of the Securities
    Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and applicable requirements of the New York
    Stock Exchange.
    
          19. Amendment and Termination of the Plan: The Board may from time to
    time, with respect to any shares at the time not subject to options, suspend or
    discontinue the Plan or amend it in any respect, except as provided in paragraph
    13 hereof, provided that (a) no revision or amendment shall change the selection
    or eligibility of directors to receive options under the Plan, the purchase
    price thereunder, or materially increase the benefits accruing to participants
    under the Plan, (b) without the approval of the holders of a majority of
    outstanding shares of IFF (except as provided in paragraph 11 above), increase
    the aggregate numbers of shares available for options, or reduce the option
    price below that provided for hereunder.
    
    
    
    
    
    
                                                     AS REVISED TO FEBRUARY 17, 1995
    
                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
                        DIRECTOR CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION PROGRAM
    
    I.    PROGRAM OVERVIEW
    
          A.    After the death of each participating Director*, it is the intention
    of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (the "Corporation") to contribute
    $500,000 to an eligible charitable or educational institution recommended by the
    Director and an additional $500,000 to the IFF Foundation (the "Foundation"), to
    be used for charitable contributions selected by the Foundation. The
    contribution recommended by the Director will be made by the Corporation in his
    or her name.
    
          B.    To finance the anticipated contributions in the Director's name and
    by the Foundation, the Corporation will apply for life insurance covering each
    Director. With respect to each Director serving on the effective date of the
    Program, the Corporation will apply for the insurance promptly. The Corporation
    will apply for the insurance with respect to each person becoming a Director
    after the effective date of the Program promptly after his or her election. The
    policy covering any Director will be a specifically designed joint life policy
    under which two Directors will be insured. The Corporation will be the owner of
    and the beneficiary under the policy.
    
          C.   The Program will benefit the Director, the charitable organization
    and the Corporation.
    
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    * All future references to Director will mean participating Director, except
    where the context otherwise requires.
    
    
    
    
             1. By enabling the Director to recommend that a significant
                contribution be made in his or her name to an eligible charity or
                educational institution, the Program will assist the Director in
                accomplishing his or her charitable or educational contribution
                goals, with no commitment of personal resources.
    
             2. The charitable organization will receive from an extremely reliable
                source a substantial endowment that otherwise might not have been
                available to it.
    
             3. The Program will provide additional funds to enable the Corporation
                and the Foundation to make meaningful contributions to charitable
                and educational organizations, thereby enhancing the Corporation's
                public image, while at the same time creating an additional
                innovative method for attracting and retaining quality Directors.
    
    II.   PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM
    
          A.    With respect to Directors serving on the effective date of the
    Program:
    
             1. Each non-employee Director will be fully vested in the Program on
                such date.
    
             2. Each employee director will be deemed fully vested in the Program at
                age 62, provided that he is serving as a Director at such date.
    
    
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          B.    With respect to persons becoming Directors after the effective date
    of the Program:
    
             1. A non-employee Director will vest in the Program over a sixty-month
                period of service according to the following schedule:
    
              MONTHS OF SERVICE             DONATION TO DIRECTOR'S
                AS A DIRECTOR                 RECOMMENDED CHARITY
              ----------------              -----------------------
    
                Less than 24                          $0
                    24-35                          $200,000
                    36-47                          $300,000
                    48-59                          $400,000
                 60 or more                        $500,000
    
             2. Provided that an employee Director is serving as a Director at age
                62, he or she will vest in the Program on that date in accordance
                with the schedule in B.1 above, which will include service as a
                Director both before and after that date.
    
          C.    Notwithstanding A. and B. above, in the event a Director is
    determined, in the sole discretion of the Corporation, not to be insurable, he
    or she will be ineligible to, and will not, participate in the Program.
    
    III.  OPERATION OF THE PROGRAM
    
          A.    Prior to the effective date of the Program (or, for a new Director,
    at the time he or she is first elected as a Director), the Director and the
    Corporation will enter into a Memorandum of Understanding which, among other
    things, (1) will state the Corporation's intention to make a corporate
    contribution in the Director's name following the Director's death, and (2) will
    acknowledge the Director's participation in the Program.
    
    
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          B.    Directors will be paired as the Corporation may elect and each pair
    of Directors will apply for a joint life insurance policy with the Corporation
    as owner and beneficiary. Directors will be asked to complete necessary
    enrollment forms and policy applications. The Secretary of the Corporation will
    be available to assist any Director in completing the paperwork.
    
          C.    At the time a Director first becomes vested in the Program, the
    Corporation will request the Director to complete a contribution form to
    recommend one or more eligible charitable or educational institutions of his or
    her choice to receive the amount of the eventual donation as to which the
    Director is then vested and, if a Director selects more than one donee, the
    amount to be given to each. No contribution may be for less than $100,000. Each
    person becoming a Director after the effective date of the Program will be
    requested to complete additional contribution forms as the amount of the
    eventual donation in which he or she is vested increases.
    
          D.    Although the Corporation will give deference to Director
    recommendations, the Corporation, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to
    accept or reject any recommendation. An accepted recommendation will be
    effective upon return to the Director of a copy of the contribution form.
    
          E.    A Director may revoke or revise a contribution recommendation at any
    time by completing a new contribution form. The revocation or revision will be
    effective when accepted by the Corporation by returning a copy of the
    contribution form to the Director.
    
          F.    Any proceeds of insurance as to which a Director has not made a
    recommendation which has been accepted by the Corporation will be paid to the
    Foundation.
    
    
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          G.    The Corporation will pay all premiums on the life insurance policy
    and all expenses of the Program.
    
          H.    After the death of a Director, the Corporation will make the
    contribution to the recommended institution(s) in the Director's name.
    
          I.    After the death of the second Director insured under a policy, the
    Corporation will receive the proceeds as beneficiary of the full policy covering
    both Directors.
    
    IV.   IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM
    
          A.    The Program will become effective March 1, 1995.
    
          B.    A Director's rights and interests under the Program may not be
    assigned or transferred.
    
          C.    The Program may be amended, suspended or terminated at any time by
    the Board of Directors. Nothing contained in the Program will create a trust,
    actual or constructive, for the benefit of a Director or any organization
    recommended by a Director to receive a donation, or will give any Director or
    recommended organization any interest in any assets of the Program or the
    Corporation.
    
          D.    The Office of the Secretary of the Corporation will administer the
    Program. A Director may seek assistance from or direct any questions about the
    Program to the Secretary of the Corporation.
    
    
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                         INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    
                        DIRECTOR CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION PROGRAM
    
                                  QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
    
    1.    WILL PARTICIPATING DIRECTORS NEED TO QUALIFY FOR LIFE INSURANCE?
    
    Yes. The requirements are minimal, however. Each Director will be asked to sign
    a life insurance application, answer six health-related questions and a smoking
    question, and provide details for certain avocations (e.g., scuba diving and
    aviation). In addition, each Director will be asked to authorize Metropolitan
    Life Insurance Company to obtain a report from his or her attending
    physician(s).
    
    2.    WILL A MEDICAL EXAMINATION BE REQUIRED?
    
    Generally, only the information and authorization outlined in the response to
    question 1 will be required. In certain instances, however--for example, where
    the Director has not had a medical examination within 6-12 months prior to
    completing the application--an examination may be required.
    
    3.    WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF A DIRECTOR IS DETERMINED TO BE A HIGHER THAN STANDARD
    LIFE INSURANCE RISK, IS A SMOKER, OR IS EVEN UNINSURABLE?
    
    Joint life policies insuring two Directors permit more flexibility than
    traditional single life policies. As a result, although the Corporation's
    premium outlays may be higher for "rated" Directors and for smokers, it is
    expected that a wide range of risks can be accommodated. Nevertheless,
    
    
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    in the unlikely event that a Director were determined to be uninsurable, he or
    she would be ineligible to participate in the Program.
    
    4.    WHY DOES THE PROGRAM UTILIZE JOINT LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES?
    
    Joint life policies have lower premiums than single life policies. Directors
    will be paired under these policies on the most cost efficient basis for the
    Corporation.
    
    5.    WILL A DIRECTOR INCUR ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT COSTS OR SUFFER ANY TAX
    CONSEQUENCES AS A RESULT OF THE PROGRAM?
    
    Under the Program, the Corporation will make a charitable contribution with its
    own funds in the Director's name after the Director's death. All costs of the
    Program--insurance policy premiums--will be paid by the Corporation and the
    Corporation will be both the owner and the beneficiary of the policies. As a
    result, there is no cost to a Director and, under current tax laws and
    regulations, the Program should have no income or estate tax consequences to the
    Director at any time.
    
    6.    THE PROGRAM DESCRIPTION STATES THAT THE CORPORATION INTENDS TO MAKE A
    CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION AFTER THE DEATH OF EACH DIRECTOR, YET THE LIFE INSURANCE
    PROCEEDS WILL NOT BE PAYABLE UNTIL THE DEATH OF THE SECOND INSURED UNDER EACH
    POLICY. WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LIFE INSURANCE AND THE ACTUAL
    CONTRIBUTIONS?
    
    As described in response to question 7, below, the insurance policies serve as
    mechanisms to help finance the Program. In all cases, however, the charitable
    contributions are made directly from the Corporation's general assets. The
    contribution payments are not directly tied to the Corporation's receipt, as
    
    
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    beneficiary, of the death benefits under the insurance policies.
    
    7.    WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE LIFE INSURANCE IN THE PROGRAM?
    
    The life insurance enables the Corporation to finance efficiently its
    anticipated future charitable contributions in the Director's name and by the
    Foundation. The Director has neither an interest in nor any right to the
    benefits from the life insurance on his or her life. Assuming that current
    Federal tax laws relating to charitable contributions do not change, and if
    certain other assumptions (e.g., mortality projections) are met, the Corporation
    can reasonably expect to be reimbursed for all of its outlays for life insurance
    premiums and the after-tax cost of its anticipated charitable contributions
    pursuant to the Program.
    
    8.    WHAT CHARITIES AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A DIRECTOR'S
    RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE A CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION UNDER THE PROGRAM?
    
    The recommended recipient of a contribution under the Program must be an
    established United States charitable or educational institution that meets the
    definition of an Exempt Organization in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
    Revenue Code and the regulations under it. Although the Corporation will give
    deference to Director recommendations, the Corporation, in its sole discretion,
    reserves the right at any time to accept or reject any recommendation.
    
    9.   MAY A DIRECTOR RECOMMEND MORE THAN ONE RECIPIENT FOR PORTIONS OF THE
    INTENDED CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION?
    
    Yes, but the minimum amount that a Director may recommend be contributed to any
    one charitable institution is $100,000. As a result, the number of recommended
    recipients for the total contribution cannot exceed five.
    
    
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    10.   WILL THE CORPORATION NOTIFY INTENDED RECIPIENTS RECOMMENDED BY A DIRECTOR
    FOR CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS?
    
    No, unless the Director specifically requests otherwise in writing to the
    Corporation. Any intended recipient notified by the Corporation at the request
    of a Director will also be informed of any revocation or revision of the
    Director's recommendation and of any other event that will change the expected
    donation, such as the death or disability of a Director prior to full vesting.
    
    11.   WHOM CAN A DIRECTOR CALL FOR ASSISTANCE OR WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
    PROGRAM?
    
    The Program will be administered by the Office of the Secretary of the
    Corporation. A Director may call the Vice President and Secretary of the
    Corporation for assistance or with questions about any aspect of the Program,
    including the eligibility of a recommended recipient of a contribution.
    
    
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    LIST OF SUBSIDIARIES OF INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
            ------------------------------------------------------
    
    Below is a list of the subsidiaries of the Company. Each subsidiary does
    business under the name identified below. All of the voting stock of each
    subsidiary is owned, either directly or indirectly, by the Company, except where
    noted and except, in certain instances for directors' qualifying shares.
    
    
    
    Name of Subsidary                                                     Place of Incorporation
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Nederland) B.V.            The Netherlands
    
    Aromatics Holdings Limited                                            Ireland
    
    IFF-Benicarlo, S.A.                                                   Spain
    
    International Flavours & Fragrances (China) Ltd.                      China
    
    Irish Flavours and Fragrances Limited                                 Ireland
    
    International Flavours & Fragrances I.F.F. (Great Britain) Ltd.       England
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Italia) S.r.l.             Italy
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Deutschland) G.m.b.H.      Germany
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Switzerland) A.G.          Switzerland
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (France) SAS                France
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Hong Kong) Ltd.                   Hong Kong
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Japan) Ltd.                       Japan
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances S.A.C.I.                           Argentina
    
    I.F.F. Essencias e Fragrancias Ltda.                                  Brazil
    
    International Flavours & Fragrances (Australia) Pty. Ltd.             Australia
    
    P.T. Essence Indonesia                                                Indonesia
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Mexico) S.A. de C.V.              Mexico
    
    IFF Mexico Manufactura, S.A. de  C.V.                                 Mexico
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Espana) S.A.               Spain
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Poland) Sp.z.o.o.                 Poland
    
    IFF Trading Company B.V.                                              The Netherlands
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd (1)             China
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd.               China
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (S.A.) (Pty) Ltd.           South Africa
    
    The PAKS Corporation                                                  New York
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Canada) Ltd.               Canada
    
    Alva Insurance Ltd.                                                   Bermuda
    
    van Ameringen-Haebler, Inc.                                           New York
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Caribe) Inc.                      Delaware
    
    Sabores y Fragrancias S.A.                                            Colombia
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Name of Subsidary                                                     Place of Incorporation
    
    IFF Sabores y Fragrancias de Chile Ltda.                              Chile
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Norge) A.S.                Norway
    
    IFF Aroma Esans Sanay A.S.                                            Turkey
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Israel) Ltd.               Israel
    
    Misr Co. for Aromatic Products (MARP) S.A.E.                          Egypt
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Portugal) Lds.             Portugal
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances  (Zimbabwe) (Private) Ltd.         Zimbabwe
    
    International Flavours & Fragrances (Mauritius) Ltd.                  Mauritius
    
    Speciality Fragrances (India) Private Limited                         India
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Philippines) Inc.                 Philippines
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Asia Pacific) Pte. Ltd.           Singapore
    
    International Flavours & Fragrances (Thailand) Ltd.                   Thailand
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Korea) Inc.                       Korea
    
    Laboratoire Monique Remy SAS                                          France
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Nederland) Holding B.V.           The Netherlands
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances Ardenne S.a.r.l.                   Luxembourg
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Luxembourg) S.a.r.l.              Luxembourg
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances (Luxembourg) Holding S.a.r.l.      Luxembourg
    
    International Flavours & Fragrances (GB) Holdings Limited             United Kingdom
    
    IFF International Inc.                                                New York
    
    IFF Financial Services                                                Ireland
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances Global Holding S.a.r.l.            Luxembourg
    
    IFF Capital Services                                                  Ireland
    
    IFF (Gibraltar) Limited                                               Gibraltar
    
    IFF Australia Holdings Pty Limited                                    Australia
    
    IFF Chemical Holdings Inc.                                            Delaware
    
    IFF (Gibraltar) Holdings                                              Gibraltar
    
    IFF Mexico Holdings LLC                                               Delaware
    
    IFF Latin American Holdings (Espana) SL                               Spain
    
    IFF Augusta Limited                                                   England
    
    Fragrance Ingredients Holdings Inc.                                   Delaware
    
    Bush Boake Allen Inc.                                                 Virginia
    
    Bush Boake Allen (Chile) S.A.                                         Chile
    
    Bush Boake Allen Industria E Commercial do Brasil Limitada            Brazil
    
    Bush Boake Allen Controladora S.A. de C.V.                            Mexico
    
    Bush Boake Allen (Nominees) Limited                                   England
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Name of Subsidary                                                     Place of Incorporation
    
    Bush Boake Allen Holdings (U.K.) Limited                              England
    
    Bush Boake Allen Pension Investments Limited                          England
    
    Bush Boake Allen (Executive Pension Trustees) Limited                 England
    
    Bush Boake Allen (Pension Trustees) Limited                           England
    
    Bush Boake Allen (Works Pension Trustees) Limited                     England
    
    Bush Boake Allen Limited                                              England
    
    GMB Proteins Limited                                                  England
    
    Bush Boake Allen Australia Pty Ltd.                                   Australia
    
    A. Boake, Roberts And Company (Holding), Limited                      England
    
    Bush Boake Allen (New Zealand) Limited                                New Zealand
    
    International Flavours & Fragrances (New Zealand) Limited             New Zealand
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances Singapore Pte. Ltd.                Singapore
    
    Bush Boake Allen Denmark ApS.                                         Denmark
    
    Bush Boake Allen France                                               France
    
    Bush Boake Allen Zimbabwe (Private) Limited                           Zimbabwe
    
    International Flavours & Fragrances (India) Limited (2)               India
    
    Hindustan Flavours and Fragrances (International) Limited (3)         India
    
    Bush Boake Allen (Jamaica) Limited (4)                                Jamaica
    
    Bush Boake Allen (SA) (Proprietary) Limited                           South Africa
    
    Bush Boake Allen (Thailand) Limited                                   Thailand
    
    Bush Boake Allen Benelux B.V.                                         Netherlands
    
    International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Norden) AB                 Sweden
    
    Stafford Specialty Ingredients Limited                                England
    
    Bush Boake Allen Pakistan (Private) Limited (5)                       Pakistan
    
    Asian Investments, Inc.                                               Delaware
    
    Fragrance Holdings Private Limited                                    India
    
    Essence Scientific Research Private Limited                           India
    
    Jamaica Extracts Limited (6)                                          Jamaica
    
    Bush Boake Allen Barbados Inc.                                        Barbados
    
    Bush Boake Allen Enterprises Ltd.                                     England
    
    Celessence International Limited (7)                                  England
    
    
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    (1)   90% of the voting stock of International Flavors & Fragrances (Hangzhou)
          Co. Ltd., is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company.
    
    (2)   93.1% of the voting stock of International Flavours & Fragrances (India)
          Limited is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company.
    
    (3)   93.1% of the voting stock of Hindustan Flavours and Fragrances
          (International) Limited is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company.
    
    (4)   70% of the voting stock of Bush Boake Allen (Jamaica) Limited is owned,
          directly or indirectly, by the Company.
    
    (5)   50% of the voting stock of Bush Boake Allen Pakistan (Private) Limited is
    
    
    
    
          owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company.
    
    (6)   58% of the voting stock of Jamaica Extracts Limited is owned, directly or
          indirectly, by the Company.
    
    (7)   70% of the voting stock of Celessence International Limited is owned,
          directly or indirectly, by the Company.
    
    
    
    

    EXHIBIT 23

    CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

    We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements on Form S-3 (No. 333-46932 and No. 333-59689) and Form S-8 (No. 333-126421, No. 333-120158, No. 333-102825, No. 333-61072, No. 333-51436, No. 333-50752 and No. 33-54423) of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. of our reports dated March 13, 2006 relating to the financial statements, management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting and financial statement schedule, which appear in this Form 10-K.


    /s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    New York, New York
    March 13, 2006



    
    
                                                                        Exhibit 31.1
    
    
                                      CERTIFICATION
    
    I, Richard A. Goldstein, certify that:
    
    1.   I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of International Flavors &
         Fragrances Inc.;
    
    2.   Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of
         a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
         statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
         were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this
         report;
    
    3.   Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
         information included in this report, fairly present in all material
         respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of
         the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
    
    4.   The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for
         establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined
         in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over
         financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and
         15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
    
             (a)  Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
                  disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
                  supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the
                  registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known
                  to us by others within those entities, particularly during the
                  period in which this report is being prepared;
    
             (b)  Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused
                  such internal control over financial reporting to be designed
                  under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding
                  the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of
                  financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
                  generally accepted accounting principles;
    
             (c)  Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure
                  controls and procedures and presented in this report our
                  conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and
                  procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report
                  based on such evaluation; and
    
             (d)  Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal
                  control over financial reporting that occurred during the
                  registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth
                  fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has
                  materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect,
                  the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and
    
    
    
    
    
    5.   The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on
         our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to
         the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board
         of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
    
             (a)  All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design
                  or operation of internal control over financial reporting which
                  are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability
                  to record, process, summarize and report financial information;
                  and
    
             (b)  Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
                  other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's
                  internal control over financial reporting.
    
    
    
    Date: March 13, 2006
                                                    By: /s/ Richard A. Goldstein
                                                        ------------------------
                                                    Name:  Richard A. Goldstein
                                                    Title: Chairman of the Board and
                                                           Chief Executive Officer
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
                                                                        Exhibit 31.2
    
                                      CERTIFICATION
    
    I, Douglas J. Wetmore, certify that:
    
    1.   I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of International Flavors &
         Fragrances Inc.;
    
    2.   Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of
         a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
         statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
         were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this
         report;
    
    3.   Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
         information included in this report, fairly present in all material
         respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of
         the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
    
    4.   The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for
         establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined
         in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over
         financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and
         15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
    
             (a)  Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
                  disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
                  supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the
                  registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known
                  to us by others within those entities, particularly during the
                  period in which this report is being prepared;
    
             (b)  Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused
                  such internal control over financial reporting to be designed
                  under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding
                  the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of
                  financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
                  generally accepted accounting principles;
    
             (c)  Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure
                  controls and procedures and presented in this report our
                  conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and
                  procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report
                  based on such evaluation; and
    
             (d)  Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal
                  control over financial reporting that occurred during the
                  registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth
                  fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has
                  materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect,
                  the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and
    
    
    
    
    
    5.   The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on
         our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to
         the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board
         of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
    
             (a)  All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design
                  or operation of internal control over financial reporting which
                  are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability
                  to record, process, summarize and report financial information;
                  and
    
             (b)  Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
                  other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's
                  internal control over financial reporting.
    
    
    
    Date: March 13, 2006
                                                    By: /s/ Douglas J. Wetmore
                                                        ----------------------
                                                    Name:  Douglas J. Wetmore
                                                    Title: Senior Vice President and
                                                           Chief Financial Officer
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
                                                                          Exhibit 32
    
    
            CERTIFICATION OF CEO AND CFO PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
                                 AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
                      SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
    
    In connection with the Annual Report on Form 10-K of International Flavors &
    Fragrances Inc. (the "Company") for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 as
    filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the
    "Report"), Richard A. Goldstein, as Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and
    Douglas J. Wetmore, as Chief Financial Officer, each hereby certifies, pursuant
    to 18 U.S.C. (section) 1350, as adopted pursuant to (section) 906 of the
    Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that, to the best of his knowledge:
    
    (1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of
    the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
    
    (2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material
    respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
    
    Dated:  March 13, 2006
    
    
    
    By: /s/ Richard A. Goldstein
        ------------------------
    Name:  Richard A. Goldstein
    Title: Chairman of the Board and
           Chief Executive Officer
    
    
    
    By: /s/ Douglas J. Wetmore
        ----------------------
    Name:  Douglas J. Wetmore
    Title: Senior Vice President and
           Chief Financial Officer