Symrise AG (XTRA:SY1) will consider new acquisitions in 2015, its Chief Financial Officer was quoted on August 2, 2014 as saying. "We're going to concentrate first in the next six months 100 percent on integrating the Diana group," Bernd Hirsch said in an interview with the newspaper Boersen-Zeitung. "I don't see that we'll be limited in any way whatsoever in the coming year, should we look around for further takeover targets," he said.

"We see a good combination of growth and profitability. We're going totally according to plan in terms of our medium-term goals," he told the paper, reported Reuters.