The Soufflet Group


The Soufflet Group is a French family-owned business based on collecting and adding value to agricultural raw materials.
France’s top private cereal collector, the Group is a major player in supplying arable farmers, and in the vine and wine sector. It advises and supplies farmers, vine growers and wine makers.
An agricultural and industrial company specialising in the first conversion of cereals, the Soufflet Group operates mainly in the wheat and barley sectors in France, Europe and Asia.
The Soufflet Group also operates in the first conversion of maize, rice and pulses.
Based on solid state fermentation, since 2008 it has been investing researching new ways of adding value to agricultural resources, through its Osiris programme, backed by OSEO, and four regional biotechnology research programmes backed by the FEDER, the Champagne-Ardenne region, the department of Aube and the town of Nogent-sur-Seine.

Fields of business

The Soufflet Group has nine businesses:

Agriculture

France's top private collector of cereals and oil seeds, Soufflet Agriculture stores and markets farm production, and retails agricultural supplies in France and in five other European countries.

Vine

Soufflet Vigne offers vine growers, wine makers, cooperatives and merchants a range of products and services, together with technical advice.

Trading

The Group's Trading Division, Soufflet Négoce, has 4 trading offices and 4 port silos. It specialises in sourcing, transporting and exporting cereals, oilseeds and dairy products.

Milling

With 10 mills in France and Belgium, Moulins Soufflet prepares and markets flours for its different types of customers: traditional bakers, flour-using industries and major retailers.
Moulins Soufflet also owns the Baguépi brand name.

Ingredients

Formulating tailor-made ingredients, AIT Ingredients offers solutions meeting the various problems its industrial customers face, mainly in the breadmaking sector. The company is developing on the European and African markets as well as in Russia, the Middle East and South America.

Malting

Malteries Soufflet is one of the world's main producers of kilned and roasted malt and caramels.

Maize processing

Specialising in the first conversion of maize, Costimex produces and markets world-wide maize hominies, grits, semolina and flour tailored to the various requirements of brewers and snack and breakfast cereal manufacturers.

Rice and pulses

An industrial company specialising in processing and packing rice and pulses, Soufflet Alimentaire, which has three plants in France, including one in partnership – offers more than 120 materials and 2,000 product lines for the industrial, ethnic, catering and retail markets.
Soufflet Alimentaire develops as well as markets products that can be micro-waved by end-users under its Vivien Paille brand name.

Biotechnology

In Solid State Fermentation, the Soufflet Group works in the field of biotechnologies applied to innovative biocatalysts from agricultural resources.
Its Caen-based Lyven subsidiary formulates and produces by SSF enzyme solutions for the fruit processing, drinks, bakery, animal feed and biofuel sectors.

Strategy

The Soufflet Group's development strategy is based, both in France and abroad, on two models:
In France, the business is integrated end-to-end, starting with agriculture, its first business, Soufflet now controls cereal first conversion activities.
Abroad, on the other hand, to supply its plants, the Group has progressively opened subsidiaries in the agriculture domain to develop the collection of barley, which now extends to other types of crop.

History

Executive Board