Named among « 11 good opportunities to set up » by Process Alimentaire magazine at the end of 2007, the Somme already appealed numerous food-processing industries, among which :
BONDUELLE, ROQUETTE FRERES, LUNOR, NESTLE, AJINOMOTO FOODS EUROPE, TEREOS, SAINT-LOUIS-SUCRE, PASQUIER and many others.

From breakfast to dinner, the county gathers around fifty food-processing industries of more than 20 employees, and a hundred of companies with less than 20 employees. The field altogether represents almost 6,500 jobs, i.e. 13% of total industrial jobs.

Among the sectors the most represented on the county, we have :

-    alimentary canned goods : Bonduelle, Papillotte, Conserveries St Christophe, Canards du Val de Luce...
-    sugar and starch : Saint-Louis-Sucre, Vermandoise Industries, Roquette Frères, Syral-Téréos...
-    potato : Lunor, Sitpa-Nestlé (purée Mousline), Touquet Savour, Bayard Distribution...
-    dairy products : Nutribio, SFPL-VPM, UPCL...
-    bakery, pastry, cereal : Daylicer (breakfast cereal), Nutrimaine (Banania), Pasquier, Panavi, Touflet Tradition, Florensuc... 
-    meat and eggs : Défial, Bigard, Sauvage Viandes, le Domaine Picard, SICADAP (Matines and Mas d'Auge eggs)
-    biotechnology and chemistry : Ajinomoto Foods Europe (amino-acids), Syral-Téréos (glutamate), Rexim-Degussa, Métarom...
-    petfood : Nestlé Purina, Alliance Nutrition Animale, Ucalpi, Vitagreen...

In order to ease the setting up of new enterprises in the sector, we have developed a specific offer :

-    the “Agro Village”, on the Haute Picardie Business Park, is a turnkey real estate solution.
-    The food-processing platform of Picardie : in Amiens, in a single place, all the equipments and skills are gathered to innovate, elaborate new products and test their production at a large scale, prior to industrialisation. 

Food-processing industrial base in the Somme 530.39 Kb