A vital player in the global food chain, Louis Dreyfus Commodities is a world leader in the processing of agricultural products and the merchandising of a diverse range of commodities. The Group is privately held by the Louis-Dreyfus family, controlled by the Robert Louis-Dreyfus trust and approximately 20% employee-owned. Founded and based in Europe, Louis Dreyfus Commodities enjoys strong regional presence in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle-East and Africa.
Thriving relationships are our lifeblood, each developed for mutual success. A solid global customer base confirms our reputation every day, as do our deep, durable working relations with the world’s farming communities. Together, the company produce resources of fundamental importance for this planet.
Louis Deyfus Commodities operates with the drive of a young organization, tempered and fuelled by 160 years of experience and expansion in the field of agricultural commodities. Today, with offices in more than 55 countries and over 35,000 employees at the peak season, the Group stands strong, pragmatic and diversified, guided by a multi-cultural management staff devoted to its aims and to its unique business model.
At the heart of this model is a globally diversified business portfolio, keenly focused on strategically developing and protecting its positions up and down the value chain. With its commodity platforms integrated from farm to consumer, coupled with optimally located production and processing assets, the Group carefully manages risks at every level in every sector.
The Group’s diversification and environmentally-sound, socially-responsible expansion strategy has enabled it to post outstanding, sustainable year-on-year growth, with six leadership positions and ten major trade flows covered: it is the number one cotton and rice merchant worldwide and ranks in the top three in orange juice, wheat, corn and sugar and in the top five in oilseeds and coffee. In addition, Louis Dreyfus Commodities is the second largest sugarcane crushing group in the world.
Louis Dreyfus Commodities’ business model is based on a matrix organization Platforms/Divisions.
Thirteen main Platforms divided among four Segments: Proteins, Tropicals, Biosev and Other. Biosev was created in October 2009 through the merger of operations between BioEnergia (LDCommodities’ Brazilian Sugar and Ethanol Mills business) and Santelisa Vale.Each Platform is managed globally as well as being supported by the Group’s six Regions.
This global scope ensures:
