The story
Founded by Gérard Chancereul and Rémy Lambert in 1968.1
The company was founded in 1968 as a merger of the family business Lambert based in Sablé-sur-Sarthe and Dodard-Chancereul based in Saint-Denis-d’Anjou. In 1970, the company expanded and opened a poultry slaughterhouse in Sablé-sur-Sarthe.
In the 1990s, LDC took over the convenience food company La Toque Angevine. In 1995, LDC went public at the Euronext Paris and conducted the first international takeover with Hermanos Saiz from Spain. Subsequently, the French company started an international expansion. Among others, the company took over the Polish company Drosed in 2000, the Hungarian Tranzit group in 2018, and the British poultry company Capestone Organic Poultry in 2021.
LDC also expanded in the French poultry farming and took over multiple competitors. In 2018, LDC took over parts of the insolvent Groupe Doux, and in 2022 the company Matines, one of the leading French egg producers, from the Avril group.
In 2022, LDC was struck by the historic outbreak of influenza A virus subtype H5N1 in France that lead to the culling of more than 12 million birds. The company had to shut down four slaughterhouses.
The executive management was passed from Denis Lambert to Philippe Gélin in 2022.
From Wikipedia’s article on LDC Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5