[Press Release] VIVESCIA is starting a new chapter in its development with its VIVESCIA 3.0 strategy

In the context of its AGM on 16 December, and the presentation of its financial results for the year ending 30 June 2025, VIVESCIA Cooperative Group presented its first roadmap for 2030, with a new transformation and development plan, called VIVESCIA 3.0.

• VIVESCIA 3.0 is a meaningful project. It sets its sights on 2030, with a vision of a more efficient, more sustainable, and more connected grain coooperative group, in the service of its purpose: to create value for VIVESCIA cooperative farmers.
• Its sustainable development and performance programme, LINK, is the foundation of VIVESCIA 3.0, and its TRANSITIONS programme will drive innovation in agri-food value chains
• To support its ambition as a driving force and leading player in sustainable crop value chains and grain-based ingredients, VIVESCIA will mobilise a €600 million investment package, including €150 million for its agricultural activities and €200 million for new development projects.

The President of VIVESCIA Group, Christoph Büren, said: “Our direction is clear: we are guided by our purpose, which places the creation of sustainable value for our VIVESCIA cooperative farmers at the very heart of our corporate project, VIVESCIA 3.0. Our project has an ambitious shared objective: to develop as the leader of sustainable crop value chains and grain-based ingredients. It also commits us to building the agriculture of tomorrow: strong, productive, and resilient low-carbon agriculture that promotes soil health and biodiversity. This new chapter opens with confidence over our greater financial and investment capacity. In a fast-moving, fiercely competitive international environment, buffeted by global warming and climate incidents, we must have the courage to talk about competitiveness. Alongside sustainability and innovation, our growth depends on it.”

Guillaume Mothe, Group Managing Director, added: ”In addition to our role as the key partner of VIVESCIA cooperative farmers and customers along the value chain, part of our VIVESCIA 3.0 strategy is to strengthen the value proposition of our primary processing grain businesses. VIVESCIA Industries will become VIVESCIA Ingredients. The challenge is to go beyond a commodity-based model. We have created a new organisational structure, based on the three families of ingredients in our portfolio: malt for beer and whisky (Malteurop); food ingredients (Grands Moulins de Paris, KALIZEA, Diamalteria — not forgetting Francine, a staple ingredient in all French consumers’ kitchens); and biotech ingredients (ARD) for the bioeconomy. ”

VIVESCIA 3.0 reinforces the Group’s mission and provides renewed momentum; to nourish people every day while contributing to sustainable transitions and the development of the bio-economy. Through its position at the heart of the value chain, VIVESCIA undertakes to look after the Earth, grain, and ingredients within grain and plant industries. Through its driving, innovative role, VIVESCIA intends to uphold a positive vision for tomorrow’s agriculture and value chains: productive, resilient, low-carbon, regenerative practices that promote soil health and biodiversity. 

VIVESCIA 3.0 has four strategic pillars: 

• Strengthening the cooperative as the foundation of our group, whose purpose is the creation of value for VIVESCIA cooperative farmers. In the face of unpredictability in a sector that is reinventing itself, VIVESCIA group has to become more efficient and competitive.
• Affirming the group’s new position at the intersection of plant and grain value chains: VIVESCIA Industries will become VIVESCIA Ingredients, a name that conveys a stronger value proposition.
• Creating a new growth dynamic with an entrepreneurial mindset across our value chains, innovation, and customer focus
• Simplifying our organisational structure to become a more agile and efficient group.

The 2030 roadmap will leverage competitiveness, sustainability, and innovation, percolating through all VIVESCIA Group’s businesses: agriculture and animal nutrition, malting, milling, maize processing, and plant biotechnologies.

More than just a plan, VIVESCIA 3.0 lays out a new model for VIVESCIA tomorrow, with an ambition to be a leader in sustainable crop value chains and grain-based ingredients, carrying a vision of agriculture that reconciles productivity with low-carbon practices that protect water resources and promote soil health and biodiversity

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About TRANSITIONS, the leading impact-driven programme in Europe

Launched by the VIVESCIA Cooperative Group and its partners in 2023, the TRANSITIONS programme — the first impact-driven programme of its kind in Europe — helps farms move towards more resilient, low-carbon farming practices that promote soil health and biodiversity. It is spreading and is being duplicated in France in 2025, with a first Noriap cooperative located in the Hauts de France department. 
TRANSITIONS brings together plant and grain industries across the entire value chain in an ambitious, innovative, and robust programme that is aligned with internationally recognised scientific standards (GHG Protocol, SBTi Flag, SAI Regen Ag, etc.) and audited by Bureau Veritas.

• A systemic agronomic framework that takes into account the soil, carbon, and biodiversity, designed at the level of the farm — the only way to guarantee progress. The programme aims to mitigate financial and technical risk for farmers, who commit for three years, thanks to significant financial support, a collective training plan, and concrete individual support.
• Coalitions of agri-food and manufacturing customers with technical and scientific partners: Only a collective solution will enable us to share the cost of a successful, large-scale transition of agricultural and food systems.
• A digital chain of trust: The cornerstone of the programme is a robust data chain whose pioneering methodology is unanimously recognised in our sector.

To find out more about the TRANSITIONS programme: https://www.vivescia.com/en/transitions