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In 1993, with the acquisition of the Estonian yeast producer Salutaguse Pãrmitehas, near Tallinn, Lallemand started to cover baker's yeast activities in Europe. In the course of the 1990s, Salutaguse then bought a Lithuanian yeast company in Panevezys, which marketed its products under the brand name Sema Mieles. Lallemand was thus strengthening its presence in the Baltic and Eastern European countries. The Lithuanian plant became a distribution center of the Group in Europe. Salutaguse Pãrmitehas distributes fresh bakers yeast in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Kaliningrad region of Russia. It also exports inactive dried yeast worldwide through the Lallemand network.

Buying the Austrian yeast producer Harmer Hefe with its plant in Ottakring (near Vienna), Lallemand got a chance to enlarge its baker's yeast activities towards the Western European markets. Harmer Hefe soon created a joint venture with Giegold Hefe, a Bavarian yeast producer, to launch Hagold Hefe GmbH. The latter operates several yeast production plants which added up along the years: Giegold's production plant in Schwarzenbach-an-der-Saale (Germany), the plant of Old Herold in Trencin, Slovakia (acquired in 2000), the plant of F.X. Wieninger in Passau, Germany (2004), as well as the Linco Hefe business in Heilbronn, acquired in 2006, which was transformed into a distribution center. Hagold Hefe operates its own distribution system in Germany and Austria and  exports at this time to France, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia,  Croatia and Hungary.

In 2006, Lallemand GmbH (formerly Harmer Hefe), of which the original plant in Vienna is now primarily dedicated to the micro-encapsulation of yeast and bacteria, acquired three Polish plants: in Lublin, Cracow and Jozefow. The production is now concentrated in Lublin and Jozefow, whereas Cracow serves as a distribution center.

In 2007, Lallemand GmbH purchased Suomen Hiiva Oy, a Finnish yeast company operating a yeast plant in Lahti, Finland, and marketing its fresh baker's yeast in Finland and Russia. It also acquired De Danske Gærfabrikker AS, a Danish yeast and molasses alcohol company with a plant located in Grenå, which markets its fresh baker's yeast and molasses alcohol in Denmark as well as produces specialty yeast and yeast autolysates for the Lallemand Specialty Division.

The Lallemand Denmark subsidiary in Fredericia, Denmark, is a packing and logistics center for everything concerning dry specialty yeast.

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