The top five personal household and care companies by global revenue - Procter and Gamble, L'Oreal, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and Kimberly Clark – manage regional responsibilities covering South-east Asia or Asia Pacific from Singapore, including.
Two of the top five food companies – Nestle and Kraft – manage their regional responsibilities from Singapore. Diageo, the world's largest producer of spirits group by revenue also locates its Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore.
Three of the top five luxury goods companies – LVMH, PPR and Richemont – as well as other fashion companies, such as Levi Strauss & Co. and Beaumanoir, have regional responsibilities in Singapore covering Southeast Asia or Asia Pacific.
The five largest flavours and fragrances houses by revenue - Givaudan, International Flavours and Fragrances, Firmenich, Symrise and Takasago – have made Singapore their base from which they manage growth in Asia-Pacific. They also manufacture and export to Asian markets high-value flavours and fragrances used in industrial applications and food manufacturing, and conduct in-depth research to develop new flavours and fragrances for the region.