AMENDED AND RESTATED EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

Exhibit 10.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED
EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

     THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT (the “Amended Agreement”), made and entered into as of the 17th day of August, 2007, amends and restates the Executive Employment Contract dated as of December 1, 2005 (the “Original Agreement”), by and between Sensient Technologies Corporation, a Wisconsin corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”), and Kenneth P. Manning (hereinafter referred to as “Executive”);

W I T N E S S E T H :

     WHEREAS, the Executive is presently employed by the Company as its President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”);

     WHEREAS, the Board recognizes that the Executive’s contribution to the growth and success of the Company has been substantial;

     WHEREAS, the Board desires to extend the term of employment of the Executive and to make certain other changes to the Original Agreement relating to the continued service of the Executive as a member of the Company’s management and as Chairman of its Board of Directors;

     WHEREAS, the Executive and the Company intend that this Amended Agreement shall supersede and replace the Original Agreement;

     WHEREAS, the Executive and the Company intend that in the event of a Change of Control (as defined in the Amended and Restated Change of Control Severance and Employment Agreement, made and entered into as of November 11, 1999, as amended, by and between the Executive and the Company (the “Change of Control Agreement”)), this Amended Agreement shall be superseded and replaced by the Change of Control Agreement; and

     WHEREAS, the Executive is willing to commit himself to continue to serve the Company, on the terms and conditions herein provided;

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto mutually covenant and agree as follows:

     1. Employment. The Company hereby agrees to continue to employ the Executive, and the Executive hereby agrees to continue to serve the Company, on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

     2. Term. The employment of the Executive by the Company as provided in Section 1 of this Agreement will commence on the date hereof and end immediately following the Company’s 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on April 21, 2011, unless further extended by mutual agreement or sooner terminated as hereinafter provided (the “Employment Period”).

     3. Position and Duties.

          (a) The Executive shall serve as President of the Company until the election of a new President and Chief Operating Officer in accordance with the succession plan approved by the Board, unless otherwise mutually agreed. Throughout that period and thereafter until the Company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on April 22, 2010, and unless otherwise mutually agreed, the Executive shall serve as Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Chairman of the Board and shall have such responsibilities and authority as may from time to time be assigned to the Executive by the Company’s Board of Directors consistent with his position as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Chairman of the Board. During the remainder of the Employment Period and unless otherwise mutually agreed, the Executive shall serve as the Chairman of the Board and shall have such responsibilities and authority as may from time to time be assigned to the Executive by the Company’s Board of Directors consistent with his position as Chairman of the Board.

          (b) During the Employment Period, and excluding any periods of vacation and sick leave to which the Executive is entitled, the Executive shall devote substantially all his working time and efforts during normal business hours to the business and affairs of the Company and, to the extent necessary to discharge the responsibilities assigned to the Executive under this Agreement, use the Executive’s reasonable best efforts to carry out such responsibilities faithfully and efficiently. It shall not be considered a violation of the foregoing for the Executive to (A) serve on corporate, civic or charitable boards or committees, (B) deliver lectures, fulfill speaking engagements or teach at educational institutions and (C) manage personal investments, so long as such activities do not significantly interfere with the performance of the Executive’s responsibilities as an employee of the Company in accordance with this Amended Agreement or otherwise violate the provisions of Section 14.

     4. Place of Performance. In connection with the Executive’s employment by the Company, the Executive shall be based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (at the principal executive offices of the Company) except for required travel on the Company’s business to an extent substantially consistent with his present business travel obligations.

     5. Compensation and Related Matters.

          (a) Base Salary. Except as provided below, during the Employment Period, the Company shall pay to the Executive a salary at a rate of $845,500 per annum pursuant to the Company’s normal payroll practices (the “Base Salary”). The Base Salary shall be reviewed on or before January 1 of each year following the date of this Amended Agreement, while this Amended Agreement remains in force, to ascertain whether in the judgment of the Board or such Committee to whom the Board may have delegated authority, such Base Salary should be adjusted. Any adjustment shall occur only by mutual agreement of the Company (acting with the approval of the Compensation Committee) and the Executive. If so adjusted, the term Base Salary as utilized in this Amended Agreement shall refer to the Base Salary as so adjusted. Compensation of the Executive by salary payments shall not be deemed exclusive and shall not prevent the Executive from participating in any other compensation or benefit plan of the Company. The Base Salary payments (including any adjusted salary payments) hereunder shall not in any way limit or reduce any other obligation of the Company hereunder, and no other

compensation, benefit or payment hereunder shall in any way limit or reduce the obligation of the Company to pay the Executive’s Base Salary hereunder.

          (b) Annual Bonus. In addition to the annual Base Salary, the Executive shall be eligible to be awarded, for each fiscal year or portion of a fiscal year ending during the Employment Period, an annual bonus (the “Annual Bonus”) pursuant to the terms of the Company’s Incentive Compensation Plan for Elected Corporate Officers, or any successor or replacement plan.

          (c) Expenses. During the Employment Period, the Executive shall be entitled to receive prompt reimbursement for all reasonable expenses incurred by the Executive in performing services hereunder, including all expenses of travel and living expenses while away from home on business or at the request of and in the service of the Company, provided that such expenses are incurred and accounted for in accordance with the policies and procedures established by the Company.

          (d) Other Benefits. During the Employment Period: (i) the Executive shall be entitled to participate in incentive, savings and retirement plans, practices, policies and programs of the Company to an extent no less favorable than the participation provided generally to other senior executives of the Company; and (ii) the Executive and/or the Executive’s family, as the case may be, shall be eligible for participation in, and shall receive benefits under, welfare benefit plans, practices, policies and programs provided by the Company (including, without limitation, medical, prescription, dental, disability, employee life insurance, group life insurance, accidental death and travel accident insurance plans and programs) to an extent no less favorable than the participation and benefits provided to other senior executives of the Company (and/or their families).

          (e) Vacation. During the Employment Period, the Executive shall be entitled to paid vacation that is no less favorable than the paid vacation provided generally to other senior executives of the Company and to all paid holidays given by the Company to its other senior executives.

          (f) Office and Support Staff. During the entire term of this Amended Agreement, the Company shall furnish the Executive with office space, secretarial assistance and such other facilities and services as shall be suitable to the Executive’s position and adequate for the performance of his duties as set forth in Section 3.

          (g) Fringe Benefits. During the Employment Period, the Executive shall be entitled to fringe benefits and perquisites, which shall be no less favorable than the fringe benefits and perquisites provided generally to other senior executives of the Company.

     6. Offices. The Executive agrees to serve without additional compensation, if elected or appointed thereto, as a director of the Company and any of its subsidiaries and in one or more executive offices of any of the Company’s subsidiaries, provided that the Executive is indemnified for serving in any such capacities on a basis no less favorable than is currently provided by the Company’s By-laws.

     7. Death. If the Executive shall die during the Employment Period but prior to the delivery of a Notice of Termination (as hereinafter defined) by the Company or by the Executive for Good Reason (as hereinafter defined), the Company shall pay the Executive’s estate or legal representative, within thirty days following the Executive’s Date of Termination (as hereinafter defined), a lump sum payment equal to the sum of: (1) the accrued but unpaid portion of the Executive’s annual Base Salary through the Date of Termination (i.e., the portion of the Base Salary for the period before Executive’s death that remains unpaid), (2) the value of the Executive’s accrued, but unused, vacation days (based on the Executive’s annual Base Salary) and (3) the product of (x) the average annual bonus earned by the Executive for the three years immediately prior to the year in which the Date of Termination occurs and (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of full and partial months in the fiscal year in which the Date of Termination occurs through the Date of Termination, and the denominator of which is twelve, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid (the “Bonus Amount”), and the Company shall have no further obligations to pay other benefits under this Amended Agreement. The amounts described in clauses (1), (2) and (3) shall be hereinafter referred to as the “Accrued Obligations.”

     8. Disability.

          (a) If during the Employment Period, the Company or the Executive terminates the Executive’s employment due to the Executive’s Disability, the Company shall pay the Executive (1) within thirty days following the Executive’s Date of Termination, a lump sum payment of the Accrued Obligations and (2) commencing on the Date of Termination until April 21, 2011 or the termination of his Disability, whichever is first to occur, such amounts which an individual in his earnings category would be normally entitled to receive as full Long Term Disability (“LTD”) coverage under the Company LTD plan then in effect, but not less than 60% of his Base Salary as determined under Section 5(a) at the time of the Date of Termination. During the term of his Disability, the Executive also shall receive the employee benefits (or service credits therefor, as the case may be) he would have been entitled to receive, as provided in Section 5(d) (other than under incentive plans). The obligation to provide the foregoing disability benefits shall survive the termination of this Amended Agreement provided the Disability was incurred before termination, and the Company shall have no further obligations to pay compensation or benefits under this Amended Agreement.

          (b) For purposes of this Amended Agreement, “Disability” means that (i) the Executive has been unable, for a period of 180 consecutive business days, to perform the Executive’s duties under this Amended Agreement, as a result of physical or mental illness or injury, and (ii) a physician selected by the Company or its insurers, and acceptable to the Executive or the Executive’s legal representative, has determined that the Executive’s incapacity is total and permanent. A termination of the Executive’s employment by the Company for Disability shall be communicated to the Executive by written notice, and shall be effective on the 30th day after receipt of such notice by the Executive (the “Disability Effective Date”), unless the Executive returns to full-time performance of the Executive’s duties before the Disability Effective Date.

     9. Termination by the Company.

          (a) Termination for Cause. The Executive’s employment may be terminated by the Board at any time for Cause which shall be defined to mean (I) conviction of the Executive of any act of fraud, theft or embezzlement or (II) the commission of any of the following