W. J Bush & Co., manufacturers of Fine Chemicals and Essential Oils, was founded in 1852 by William John Bush.
A. Boake Roberts & Co was established in 1865. The company discovered and pioneered spray-dried flavors which the aromatics are encapsulated in a protective casing of gum Arabic or one of the modified starch.
Stafford Allen founded the pharmaceutical company Stafford Allen & Sons in 1833. The business was involved in the production of flavors, fragrances, pure drugs and essential oils, and cloves.
The company grew throughout the nineteenth century; in the decades following Allen’s death in 1889, it became a multinational corporation.
Through the mergers and acquisitions, the company became known as Bush Boake Allen in 1966.
In 2001 Bush Boake Allen was acquired by International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF).
Bush Boake Allen - the merger of three companies
