Sensient Technologies Corp. has alerted state officials that it will lay off 125 workers from its Indianapolis operations. That follows the company’s announcement that it plans to move its local Flavors & Fragrances Group headquarters to suburban Chicago.
Milwaukee-based Sensient Technologies Corp. said Friday it plans to move its Indianapolis-based Flavors & Fragrances Group corporate headquarters to Chicago before mid-2014.
The locally based flavor maker has agreed to reduce its usage of diacetyl, which had prompted fines from the state. The deal significantly reduces the amount of the penalty—from $325,500 to $99,000.
Locally based Sensient Flavors LLC is fighting back with a fury in federal court, following months of intense federal and state scrutiny of the health risks at its Indianapolis plant.
Current and former employees of Bloomington-based International Outsourcing Services LLC are under assault by federal prosecutors
who charged they participated in a scheme to bilk some of the nation’s largest issuers of coupons out of more than $250 million.
