La Lorraine Bakery Group (LLBG) is a 100% family-owned company headquartered in Belgium, with 85 years of experience in the milling and bakery sector. We operate from 18 state-of-the art production sites and deliver to more than 35 countries.
Who we are
Thanks to the daily effort of our 5,355 passionate co-workers, we realise healthy growth figures every year. The recipe for our past and future success? Our mentality of rolling up our sleeves, our 5 strong company values, our product leadership mission to always strive for the best quality and great innovations, and our long-term vision to build international markets and explore new horizons.
“In the past decade, La Lorraine Bakery Group realised healthy figures with around 10% growth every year. We want to keep growing in a sustainable and entrepreneurial way, across the next generations, with a passion for quality and innovation, doing well for all our stakeholders and the planet. Thus becoming a bigger, but above all, a better company.”
Guido Vanherpe
Group CEO - La Lorraine Bakery Group
LLBG in figures
Belgian family business
100%
Years in the market
85
Employees
5,355+
Production sites
18
Presence
35+ markets
Products
1,500+
Revenue (2024)
1.46 billion EUR
Our Business Units
Bakery Fresh
Belgium’s market leader for more than 50 years for freshly baked bread and patisserie. Every day, more than 2,300 customers are supplied from 7 production sites in Belgium with a delicious range of fresh bread, viennoiserie and patisserie.
Bakery Frozen
One of the European market leaders for frozen bake-off products in retail and foodservice, with the ambition to further transform the bakery market worldwide: Turkey, the Middle East, the United States and more than 35 export markets.
Bakery Store Concepts
We also sell our products directly to the consumer. In the past 40 years, we’ve built up a strong franchise network of Panos and Deliway shops. They are the market reference for a fast breakfast, lunch or snack, with 450 points of sale in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Milling
Paniflower is one of the largest flour producers in the Benelux. We specialise in the milling of wheat for innovative and complex technological applications, and focus on the transition to sustainable wheat, issued from regenerative agriculture. Our clientele ranges from small artisanal bakeries to large food producers.
