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Top 25 Seed companies based in France
RevenueBase identified 186 seed companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 9,154 professional contacts across them, including 3,141 with verified work emails. Colmar is the largest hub.
This list covers seed 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 16, 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 seed companies based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,883 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Limagrain is a global company with deep local roots.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,447 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our success through cultivating collaboration!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 740 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who are we?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 551 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Already one of the top 10 global field crop seed companies, Lidea controls the entire value chain from breeding, seed production in the field to the marketing of finished products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 430 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “1919 – 2019 : A Centennial Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cérience l'agronome semencier, filiale du Groupe Terrena, est née de la fusion de Jouffray-Drillaud et Terrena Semences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe d’Étude et de contrôle des Variétés et des Semences (GEVES) a des missions officielles liées à la réglementation et donc met en place des études nécessaires à : •…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’entreprise Gautier Semences est située à Eyragues, au cœur de la Provence, une région historique de la production française de fruits et légumes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Florimond Desprez breeds varieties and produces seeds to meet the needs of field crop farmers, the corresponding agro-industrial sectors and consumers, while actively supporting…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RIJK ZWAAN, UN ACTEUR INCONTOURNABLE DES SEMENCES POTAGÈRES Basé à De Lier aux Pays-Bas, le groupe Rijk Zwaan a 100 ans d’expérience dans la sélection et la production de semences…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondée en 1995, CERDYS est aujourd'hui une seule et même entreprise composée de 6 sites de production et d'une plateforme logistique de traitements des commandes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TECHNISEM est une entreprise de production et distribution de semences potagères adaptées aux pays tropicaux et à destination du monde professionnel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Initia Food, basée à St Germain du Puy (18 - Bourges), est spécialisée dans la production (sourcing - achat - torréfaction - conditionnement) des graines apéritives - fruits secs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bénéficiant d’une expertise agronomique et industrielle de plus de 80 ans, CS Pro propose aux professionnels de la distribution agricole un large éventail de semences performantes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our company is originally a small family business created in 1945 by Daniel DESMAZIÈRES.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Implantée à Avignon, au cœur de la Provence, la Société SPG fournit aux jardiniers amateurs une gamme complète de semences potagères, florales et couvre sols.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fort d’une construction familiale depuis 1850, le groupe DELEPLANQUE est devenu, suite à l’intégration des semenciers allemands STRUBE en 2018 et van WAVEREN en 2020, un leader…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bejo est une entreprise leader en sélection, production et vente de semences potagères.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Implanté sur deux sites de production stratégiques, à Ploubazlanec (22) en Bretagne et à Tarascon (13) en Provence, le Groupe couvre une superficie totale de près de 40 hectares…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Barenbrug France fait partie du Royal Barenbrug Group, une société semencière active à l'échelle mondiale et dont le siège se trouve aux Pays-Bas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “André Briant Jeunes Plants, ce sont des millions de boutures et plus de 140 hectares sur 6 sites!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Faire confiance au Groupe René Briand, c’est faire confiance à un savoir-faire acquis depuis plus de 50 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec de plus de 1 800 variétés et espèces de semences biologiques, libres de droits et reproductibles, notre gamme – la plus grande d’Europe – préserve et promeut la biodiversité…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leader mondial en sélection et production de semences de graminées et de trèfle, DLF est présent dans plus de 70 pays à travers le monde.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe DuranSia est une entreprise coopérative agricole française qui accompagne les agriculteurs adhérents pour valoriser et distribuer leur production.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 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: seed 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 seed companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of seed companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name seed 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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Seed companies based in France at a glance
As of Sep 16, 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 186 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 seed 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 “seed 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 seed 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 seed 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, 3,141 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 16, 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 seed 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 seed companies are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 186 seed 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?
Limagrain, headquartered in Saint-Beauzire, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most seed companies?
Colmar leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Lescar (4) and Longue Jumelles (4).
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 3,141 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 186 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 16, 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.