Lesaffre Bread Symposium Becomes Strategic Baking Industry Innovation Forum
July 6, 2026 | 2 min to read
Baking with Lesaffre is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of its inaugural Bread Symposium, a landmark industry event designed to facilitate strategic collaboration and knowledge exchange among key stakeholders in the baking sector.
The Lesaffre Bread Symposium brought together scientific researchers, market analysts, baking professionals & industry executives at the Lesaffre Campus in Marcq-en-Baroeul.
From July 1 to 3, they examined, together, the scientific complexity, market potential, and future trajectory of bread as a fundamental food category.
The inaugural event established three key strategic implications for the baking industry:
Bread represents a scientifically complex category with substantial innovation potential, offering large opportunities for product differentiation and value creation
The category remains strategically positioned for future growth, driven by evolving consumer demands and technological advancements
Cross-disciplinary collaboration is essential for industry advancement, as demonstrated by the successful gathering of diverse expertise.
The Symposium convened over 200 industry stakeholders from more than 20 countries, uniting scientists, baking professionals, nutritionists, and market specialists. “Innovation flourishes when diverse expertise converges,” commented Edouard Gestat, Group Baking Marketing Director at Baking with Lesaffre. “This event has established a new benchmark for industry collaboration.”
The Lesaffre Bread Symposium was conceived as a long-term platform for industry dialogue, designed to initiate and sustain meaningful conversations among stakeholders.
About Baking with Lesaffre
Thanks to its longstanding know-how in the field of fermentation, Baking with Lesaffre works closely with populations around the world to develop innovative baking solutions: yeasts, sourdoughs, improvers, mixes, premixes and blends for craft and industrialbakers, chains, food services and the general public. Leveraging its international network of over 50 Baking Center™, its industrial expertise, and its R&D capabilities, Baking with Lesaffre positions itself as a trusted partner providing baking solutions that cater to the needs of today and the trends of tomorrow.
About Lesaffre
A key global player in fermentation for more than a century, Lesaffre, with a 3 billion euros turnover, and established on all continents, counts 11,000 employees and more than 96 nationalities. On the strength of this experience and diversity, we work with customers, partners and researchers to find ever more relevant answers to the needs of food, health, naturalness and respect for our environment. Thus, every day, we explore and reveal the infinite potential of microorganisms.
To nourish 9 billion people, in a healthy way, in 2050 by making the most of our planet’s resources is a major and unprecedented issue. We believe that fermentation is one of the most promising answers to this challenge.