About Lesaffre
Lesaffre is a leading global yeast manufacturing company providing innovative solutions for bakers around the world. We’ve been supporting industrial, craft, and food service bakers across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific for more than 25 years.
Originating from its early roots as Fermentation Industries and evolving through various ownerships and joint ventures, the current business was effectively established in 1993 to offer Australian bakers an alternative source of bakers’ yeast. In 2008, Lesaffre became the sole owner, and the business was renamed Lesaffre Australia Pacific.
With offices in four Australian states, we locally produce a range of fermentation products and bakery ingredients at a large state- of- the- art yeast manufacturing facility in Dandenong, Victoria.
Our growth accelerated in 1995 with the purchase of Fermex Australia, which had earned a reputation as a quality supplier of yeast and baking solutions to local bakers since 1969.
We continue working with bakers to perfect local bakery favourites, with a focus on quality and customer satisfaction. In fact, Lesaffre was the first yeast producer to have its quality assurance processes certified by independent authorities. Our facilities across Australia are fully HACCP and ISO accredited.
Lesaffre is a leading global yeast manufacturing company providing innovative solutions for bakers around the world. We’ve been supporting industrial, craft, and food service bakers across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific for more than 25 years.
Lesaffre’s company history began with two friends: Louis Lesaffre and Louis Bonduelle. In 1853, they partnered together to build a grain alcohol and Dutch gin plant in the north of France.
Lesaffre branched into yeast and bread-making after 1872, becoming experts in the fermentation process and setting up a baker’s yeast- making facility. From the start, innovation drove us. The quest? To find more creative and more user-friendly bakery solutions.
More than 170 years on, one out of every three loaves of bread baked around the world uses Lesaffre yeast.
A multinational, diverse group, Lesaffre is best known in Australia Pacific for its Yeast and Baking Solutions division, the natural flavour bases of Biospringer, and the functional ingredients of Lesaffre Human Care.
A key global player in fermentation for more than a century, Lesaffre boasts a 2.7 billion euro turnover and is established on all continents with 11,000 employees from more than 90 nationalities. On the strength of this experience and diversity, we work with customers, partners, and researchers to find ever more relevant answers to the needs of food, health, naturalness and respect for our environment. Thus, every day, we explore and reveal the infinite potential of microorganisms.
Nourishing 9 billion people in a healthy way by 2050 by making the most of our planet’s resources is a major and unprecedented issue. We believe that fermentation is one of the most promising answers to this challenge.
