About us

OUR MISSION

Working together to better nourish and protect the planet

OUR MISSION

LESAFFRE IN A NUTSHELL

A key global player in fermentation for nearly 170 years, we are established on all continents with our 11,000 employees and 96 nationalities.

LESAFFRE IN A NUTSHELL

OUR BUSINESS

We push boundaries to reveal the full potential of microorganisms and fermentation through our businesses: baking, food taste & pleasure, healthcare and industrial biotechnology.

OUR BUSINESS

RAISING LIFE SINCE 1853

Our know-how at your service

Located in 63 application centers around the world, our experienced, multicultural technicians experts can pinpoint the needs and particular features of every local market in which we operate to provide start-to-finish customer support.

It is by appealing to the 5 senses that our sensory analysis experts have been committed to improving the organoleptic quality of each of our products of taste and food pleasure.

How to transform a microorganism weighing just a few micrograms into several hundred tons of yeast in less than two days?

Our mastery of fermentation combined with the infinite complexity of living microorganisms drive us to provide biotechnology-based answers to tomorrow’s questions.