european yeast division

EUROPEAN
YEAST DIVISION
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Lallemand strives to be not just a supplier, but a long-term
partner. We know our success depends on your success and
we are focused on providing committed support to the baking
industry.
Lallemand, whose bakers yeast activities were originally ­confined
to North America, became active in Europe through its leading
development of specialty yeasts (e.g. wine yeasts) starting in the
1970’s. It was only in 1993 however that it became involved in
the bakers yeast on this continent, with its purchase of a yeast
plant in Estonia, Salutaguse Pärmitehas.
During the 1990s, Salutaguse then bought a Lithuanian yeast
company in Panevezys, which marketed its products under the
brand name Sema Mieles. Lallemand was thus strengthening
its presence in the Baltic and Eastern European countries. The
Lithuanian plant became a distribution center of the Group in
Europe. Now Salutaguse Pãrmitehas distributes fresh bakers
yeast in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Kaliningrad region of
Russia. It also exports inactive dried yeast worldwide through the
Lallemand network.
With the acquisition of the Austrian yeast producer Harmer
Hefe with its plant in Ottakring (a district of Vienna), Lallemand
had the opportunity to grow its bakers yeast activities in the
Western European markets. Harmer Hefe soon created a joint
venture with Giegold Hefe, a Bavarian yeast producer, to launch
Hagold Hefe GmbH. The latter operates several yeast production
plants which increased along the years: Giegold’s production
plant in Schwarzenbach-an-der-Saale (Germany), the plant of
Old Herold in Trencin, Slovakia (acquired in 2000), the plant of
F.X. Wieninger in Passau, Germany (2004), as well as the Linco
Hefe business in Heilbronn, acquired in 2006. In 2010 the Hagold
Group established a distribution company in Baia Mare, in the
Northern part of Romania, to establish a presence in this large
market. Hagold Hefe operates its own distribution system in
Southern Germany and Austria and exports to Bulgaria, Slovakia,
Serbia, France, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia,
Hungary, Sweden and Greece.
In 2006, Lallemand GmbH (formerly Harmer Hefe), of which
the original plant in Vienna is now primarily dedicated to the
micro-encapsulation of yeast and bacteria, acquired three Polish
plants: in Lublin, Cracow and Jozefow (close to Warsaw). The
production is now concentrated in Jozefow, whereas Lublin and
Cracow serve as distribution centers.
In 2007, Lallemand GmbH purchased Suomen Hiiva Oy, a
Finnish yeast company operating a yeast plant in Lahti, Finland,
and marketing its fresh bakers yeast in Finland and Russia. It
also acquired De Danske Gaerfabrikker AS, a Danish yeast and
molasses alcohol company with a plant located in Grenå, which
markets its fresh bakers yeast and molasses alcohol in Denmark
as well as produces specialty yeast and yeast autolysates for the
Lallemand Specialty division.
LALLEMAND INC.
www.lallemand.com
Tel. : +1 514 522-2133
[email protected]
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Products
In 2009, Lallemand acquired from AB Mauri, the GBI (ex DSM)
bakers yeast business in Spain and Portugal as well as the AB
Mauri yeast plant located in Setúbal (south of Lisbon). The
Setúbal plant is the only bakers yeast plant operating in Portugal
and produces fresh bakers yeast as well as instant dry yeast for
the Iberian markets as well as export markets, notably Africa.
Furthermore, the acquisition from Cie des Levures Lesaffre of the
company GB Ingredients Ltd (GBI) was completed. GBI operates
a yeast business in the UK and Ireland from its factory based in
Felixstowe. The Felixstowe yeast plant is one of only two existing bakers yeast plants in the UK and is also the largest one,
with capacities to produce bakers and distillers fresh cream and
compressed yeasts as well as instant dry yeast for the European
and world markets.
• Cream yeast in various volumes (containers or milk tanks)
• Fresh bakers compressed yeast, in various packages, 500 g
yeast blocks in individual blocks or 5 kg packaged in
­cellophane as 2.5 kg yeast block, 1 kg and 5 kg blocks
• Crumbled fresh bakers yeast in 15 kg and 25 kg bags
• Fresh bakers yeast in cubes for the consumer in various
­packages: 25 g, 42 g, 50 g or 100 g
• Organic bakers yeast in various packages, including 500 g
and 42 g
• Specialty yeast
Additional products include, dry active bakers yeast (for b
­ akeries
in 500 g and 125 g as well as consumers in sachets of 7 g and
11 g) and a series of baking starters cultures, inactive yeasts and
enzymes.
The Lallemand Denmark subsidiary in Fredericia, Denmark, is a
packing and logistics center for all dry specialty yeasts.
Our sites
Where
Products / Activity
Vienna, Austria
Plant for fresh bakers yeast, dry specialty yeasts, microencapsulation
Diersbach, Frauenhofen, Graz, Kramsach, Austria
Distribution centers for dry specialty yeasts, fresh and dry bakers yeast
Schwarzenbach-an-der-Saale, Germany
Plant for fresh bakers yeast
Passau, Germany
Plant for fresh bakers yeast and microencapsulation
Trencin, Slovakia
Packaging plant for fresh bakers yeast
Josefow, Poland
Plant for fresh bakers yeast, dry specialty yeasts
Krakow, Lublin Poland
Distribution centers for dry specialty yeasts, fresh and dry bakers yeast
Salutaguse (near Tallinn), Estonia
Plant for fresh bakers yeast, dry specialty yeast
Lahti, Finland
Plant for fresh bakers yeast
Panevezys, Lithuania
Distribution center for dry specialty yeasts, fresh and dry bakers yeast
Fredericia, Denmark
Packaging plant for dry specialty yeasts, distribution center
Grenå, Denmark
Plant for fresh and dry bakers yeast, dry specialty yeasts, yeast extracts and alcohol
Setúbal, Portugal
Plant for fresh and dry bakers yeast
Barcelona, Madrid, Spain
Distribution center for dry specialty yeasts, fresh and dry bakers yeast
Felixstowe, UK
Plant for fresh and dry bakers yeast
Kolin, Czech Republic
Distribution center for dry specialty yeasts, fresh and dry bakers yeast
Baia Mare, Romania
Distribution center for dry specialty yeasts, fresh and dry bakers yeast
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sema
Only in France, Spain and Portugal
NG & SF
Yeast
Only in Spain and Portugal
Only in UK, Ireland, Spain and Portugal
Only in Spain and Portugal
Only in Spain and Portugal
LALLEMAND INC.
www.lallemand.com
Tel. : +1 514 522-2133
[email protected]
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