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  13/07/2018 | Ingredients

Lesaffre acquires bakery ingredients specialist Delavau Food Partners

Lesaffre has purchased Delavau Food Partners, an innovator in baking ingredients based in North America. Delavau supplies formulation and fortification solutions to bakers. Through its line of baking products, the company is focused on enzyme-based and other dough improvers for softness, shelf life, mould inhibition, dough relaxing and strength.

The acquisition shall enhance Lesaffre’s performance ingredient offering to the baking market. Bill Hanes, Director Marketing & Strategy at Lesaffre, comments: “The addition of Delavau to our existing capabilities will bring together great expertise in custom blend formulation. For Delavau, Lesaffre brings them an increase in exposure to the baking market.”

Clean label and free from solutions are important to American consumers, so Lesaffre expects continued growth in these areas. The company is formulating products that answer to these trends.

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