Puratos has close to 100 years of rich and varied history, stretching back to its founding in Brussels, Belgium, in 1919. Many talented specialists, exciting innovations and diversifications have shaped the Group into what it is today.

Our Product Categories

Puratos develops innovative ingredients and solutions for bakers, patissiers and chocolatiers around the world. These are the three pillars on which we have constructed our company. Although closely related, each pillar requires specific knowhow and expertise, combined with continuous investments in innovation.

Bakery

Through our long experience in bakery, we are able to design and manufacture every component of our products ourselves and therefore offer you products and solutions of the highest quality. Our production of bakery products is vertically integrated in the sense that we develop and manufacture our own emulsifiers, enzymes, sourdoughs and yeast extracts – the four building blocks of our improvers and mixes.

Our bakery product range includes:

• Bread improvers
• Modular ingredient solutions enhancing one functionality
• Bread flavours and sourdoughs
• Active bakery components for an authentic taste: O-tentic
• Bakery mixes
• Margarines and specialty fats
• Enzymes and emulsifiers
• And many more products

Patisserie

Patisserie is part spectacle and part seduction, and a good deal of talent and expertise is required. With our products, customers can easily master the interactions between base, filling and decoration.

Our patisserie product range includes:

• Cake and sponge mixes
• Custard cream mixes
• French specialty mixes
• Mousse and bavarois mixes
• Fruit and cream fillings
• Flavouring preparations
• Glazes
• Icings, fudges and ganaches
• Non-dairy toppings
• UHT specialties
• And many other products

Chocolate

Puratos is a specialist in the taste of chocolate. We are passionate about rare chocolates – those with their origins in select places around the world. A full range is available, from 100% organic, fair trade and the ‘Made in Belgium’ Belcolade, to an assortment of locally produced high-quality chocolate and nut-based fillings for all applications in bakery, patisserie and chocolate.

Our chocolate product range includes:

• Real Belgian chocolate
• Real chocolate
• Compound chocolate
• Chocolate, cocoa and nut-based fillings
• Pralinés and nut pastes

Puratos is a global group with local subsidiaries in 63 countries. Products are manufactured in more than 50 plants spread over 4 continents, and sold in over 100 countries. Worldwide, over 5,600 people assist our customers every day. Our operations are managed from our global headquarters in Groot-Bijgaarden, near Brussels in Belgium

The Puratos Group is a global, customer-centred organisation. Our Group is well known as a close-knit family company – not just with our personnel but with our customers as well. This unity of purpose has been instrumental in developing our business around the world into an international organisation.

The Group has adapted its decision-making to reflect its global dimension. Our main shareholders have opted for progressive reinforcement at shareholder level by associating with other families and opening the Board of Directors to external members, recognised for their experience and values. We have entrusted management to professionals who are respected leaders in their disciplines.

The shareholders and Board of Directors are united in their wish for Puratos to continue to grow to become an increasingly reliable partner for our customers, with a strong human dimension and capable of reacting rapidly to market changes.

The matrix structure chosen by Puratos reflects our international operations, while binding together all functions with the aim of understanding and delivering what our customers and their consumers truly want.