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Top 25 Fermentation companies based in France
RevenueBase identified 248 fermentation companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 7,940 professional contacts across them, including 2,191 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers fermentation companies headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest fermentation companies based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,877 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A key global player in fermentation for more than a century, Lesaffre, with a €3,2 billion turnover, and established on all continents, counts 11,700 employees and 100…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 376 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Soufflet Malt, we believe in the power of malt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 246 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Forte de près de 650 collaborateurs et de 7 établissements en France, Maison Johanès Boubée mène plusieurs activités complémentaires de négoce / achat, gestion de l’offre…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “EUROLYSINE is the European leader in the production of amino acids by fermentation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’histoire de LAFFORT® démarre en 1895.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec près d’un siècle d’histoire, le Groupe SOFRALAB® est un acteur pionnier et de référence sur le marché des produits œnologiques et services associés.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Installée à Erquy en Bretagne, Biogroupe développe des boissons fermentées (kombucha, kéfir, ginger beer) et des desserts végétaux 100 % bio à base d’ingrédients bruts, sans…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “METEX NØØVISTAGO, formerly Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Europe, leads the way in amino acids for animal nutrition since 1976.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AFYREN is a pioneering biotech company, developing innovative solutions for the production of high value-added biobased compounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chez Lesaffre France, nous travaillons pour offrir à nos clients les meilleures solutions dans les domaines de la boulangerie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Notre oenotechnique est l’art de préserver le vin afin qu’il révèle sa valeur.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MILLBÄKER, designer and manufacturer of ingredient solutions for the food industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At the forefront of the food and environmental transition, Standing Ovation is a French protein company pioneering advanced fermentation through cutting-edge precision…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded by chefs, MFL developed a unique approach to create bold, umami-rich culinary ingredients from simple, honest, real foods, using proprietary solid-state fermentation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Onafis propose des solutions numériques pour suivre chaque étape de vinification en temps réel sur vins, bières et spiritueux, adaptables sur tous types de contenant.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Loire Vini Viti Distribution (LVVD) est une société de distribution spécialisée dans le conseil et l’approvisionnement en agrofournitures viti-vinicoles sur le Val de Loire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Biotechnology: the core of our expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bioprox Cultures is a French company specializing in the production of freeze-dried lactic starters for over 50 years for dairy and plant-based applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lallemand est un leader mondial dans le développement, la production et la mise en marché de levures, bactéries et ingrédients dérivés, utilisés dans les domaines de la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GREENCELL c'est plus de 25 ans d'expérience dans la production de microorganismes (bactéries, levures et champignons filamenteux) et la transformation en ingrédients innovants…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Contribuer à la nécessaire transition écologique en innovant pour produire et commercialiser autrement des ingrédients fonctionnels bas carbone qui entrent dans la fabrication des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Solyve is a French producer and formulator of enzymes and biosolutions, based in Normandy since 1989.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Green Spot Technologies (GST) is leveraging solid state fermentation and upcycling to reinvent food ingredient solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SVS – Société Viticole de Services – est aujourd’hui le leader Sud-Est des prestations de services dédiées à l’univers vinicole.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lallemand Inc, the parent company of Lallemand Specialty Cultures, is a privately-held Canadian company, founded at the end of the 19th century, that specializes in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: fermentation companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names fermentation companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of fermentation companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name fermentation companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Fermentation companies based in France at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 248 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among fermentation companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “fermentation companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names fermentation companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among fermentation companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,191 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names fermentation companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many fermentation companies are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 248 fermentation companies headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Lesaffre, headquartered in Marcq-En-Baroeul, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most fermentation companies?
Paris leads with 16 headquartered companies, followed by Bordeaux (5) and Dijon (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,191 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 248 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.