As a truly global activity, bread-making has an impact on our environment and our communities. With its total commitment to sustainability, Lesaffre works to provide customers with natural-origin ingredients, while also delivering on its commitment to protect the well-being of its employees, local communities and the environment.
We are changing things for the better to deliver on our environmental commitments. Every day, we take concrete actions to support sustainable agriculture, reduce our carbon footprint and encourage local production.
For today’s consumers, the ingredients in their food is a major issue. At Lesaffre, it has always been in our DNA to provide clear information about any additives and preservatives, and include as few ingredients as possible. Passionate about the power of fermentation, we support consumers who want their views and cultural beliefs to be reflected in their food choices.
Along with our Corporate Social Responsibility work to protect the environment, we have always been committed to supporting our employees and helping communities where we operate. From business ethics to charity work, everyone at Lesaffre plays their part.
The preference among consumers for food with fewer ingredients, and even fewer artificial ones, continues to gain ground. At Lesaffre, we are already responding to this trend by helping our customers to reduce their ingredient lists and promoting products of natural origin thanks to our bread-making yeasts, along with a dedicated range of dough improvers and shelf-life extenders.
Baking is no exception to the growing demand around the world for organic foods. We have a comprehensive range of yeasts, sourdoughs, and dough improvers and conditioners to meet the needs of artisan and industrial-scale bakeries. To comply with organic certifications, we ensure full traceability from raw materials to finished products.
At Lesaffre, our aim is to meet the increasingly diverse needs of bakers and their customers. Today, that includes providing an extensive portfolio of products that are free of any genetically-modified organisms. Yeasts, sourdoughs, baking mixes and improvers are available to create a wide variety of GMO-free bread products.
We are taking actions to make our activities ever more sustainable. Our initiatives range from reducing the environmental impact of our plants by using water management systems, to offering yeasts without external cardboard packaging. Our network of 66 production plants brings us closer to customers, reducing our logistics footprint. In the bakery, our solutions to extend the shelf-life of products help to reduce waste. Find out more about our initiatives here.
Few ingredients
Many of today’s customers are looking for products that are tasty, but also simple. Focaccia is an ever-popular snack with only five ingredients — olives, olive oil, salt, flour and, of course, yeast.
Organic option
A marked trend among today’s consumers is to choose the organic option in the food they buy. At Lesaffre, we offer yeasts that are fully certified as organic.
Vegan lifestyle
A lifestyle choice, veganism is growing in popularity. And so is our yeast. By being vegan and organic, Lesaffre is also playing its part in a more sustainable future for all.
Baker’s yeast is a vital ingredient for bread-making as its fermentation is key to make the dough rise. To deliver on our commitment to meet different customer needs, Lesaffre has several global brands, declined through an extensive portfolio that includes compressed, crumbled, active dry, instant dry, liquid, frozen semi-dry and deactivated forms.
To find out how each one can help you, simply click on the logo below to visit their website. For local brands, please get in touch with your usual contact person.
A traditional ingredient for leavening bread, sourdough is enjoyed today by consumers looking for natural products and the richest possible flavors. Lesaffre’s solutions include starters, living sourdoughs, devitalized sourdough, and sourdough- based preparations, all designed to make it easier to bake sourdough bread.
To find out how each one can help you, simply click on the logo below to visit their website. To know more about local ranges, please get in touch with your usual contact person.
Our bread improvers alter the dough’s behavior at different stages of the baking process, enhancing its tolerance, volume, machinability and softness, while preventing blistering, flaking and mold.
To deliver on our commitment to meet different customer needs, Lesaffre has several global brands in the improvers and milling correctors segments of the market. To find out how each one can help you, simply click on the logo below to visit their website. For local brands, please get in touch with your usual contact person.
To support baking creativity, Lesaffre has developed a wide range of premixes and blends. Thus, bakers become artists in their own right, offering their consumers recipes that are either classic or creative, with varied tastes and unique textures.
To find out how each one can help you, simply click on the logo below to visit their website. For local brands, please get in touch with your usual contact person.
Since 1974, Lesaffre Baking Center™ network is a pioneer concept created to meet and answer baking customer needs. With today 48 Baking Center™ around the world, it operates as a referent solution for all customers. Over the years, Lesaffre Baking Center™ network has expanded its expertise and know-how by bringing market knowledge, innovation, sensorial analysis approach, scientific support, technical assistance and trainings. Every day, more than 300 technical bakers work as co-innovators with customers to develop the baking products and processes of tomorrow. Wherever you are, around the globe, let’s explore your unlimited potential with Lesaffre Baking Center™ network!
To find out more about our products and services for the world of baking, please see the list of Lesaffre websites for each country and business units