we have had success with lancome and others.unction of a number of factors working in many cylinders in the company now. >> you have been around forever, a hundred years. you have a great history. people forget that world trade started because of spice. that's what started it. 1400, we were looking for spice. talk about the history of your company as innovating because -- and now you are going, taking spice to other countries. i cannot believe in the time since i have seen you last how many new laboratories you opened and where you opened them. >> again, jim, we are international in our name and an international company with operations in over a hundred -- selling more than a hundred countries. we have innovative labs in many new markets. as you pointed out in the last couple of years we have been more expansive. the thing we realized in our innovation is in many ways it needs to be local. we need to understand the customers, consumers, flavors are extremely local. as a function of that we need to be global in order to satisfy c

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