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John Farber

United States 100 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Chemicals
Industry
Manufacturing
Residence
Education
Polytechnic Institute (Ph.D)
Children
1

Assets

  • Frutarom Industries
    0 shares @ -
    -
    FRUT-IL
  • International Flavors & Fragrances
    2,452,000 shares @ -
    -
    IFF-US

Biography

John Farber is the longtime chairman of ICC Industries, which trades basic and specialty chemicals. It also held a controlling stake in Frutarom.

In May 2018, Frutarom was sold to International Flavors & Fragrances for $7.1 billion in cash and stock.

He started ICC Industries in 1952 as a chemical trading division of his father-in-law's textiles export-import firm, Leslie Kleyman Corporation.

Farber and his family left Romania after his father's business was nationalized following World War II. He reacquired the company in the 1990s.

Farber received his doctorate in polymer chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.