Pré Pain
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Oldenzaal, Netherlands
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Food safety & quality, Food reformulation
- Domains
- Bakery, Processed food products, Ingredients, Flour
- Technologies
- Processing, IQF freezing
About Pré Pain
Pré Pain is a Dutch bakery specialist based in Oldenzaal that focuses on bake-off bread products. The company positions itself around the idea of delivering the freshest bread experience at the point of sale: it produces frozen bread that retail and foodservice customers finish baking on site, so consumers can buy warm, crispy bread throughout the day.
Founded in 1992 and rooted in a bakery tradition in Oldenzaal dating back to 1889, Pré Pain combines craftsmanship with modern production processes. It describes itself as a market leader in crispy bake-off bread in the fresh and frozen segments, and it serves retail and foodservice customers across Europe from its Oldenzaal site.
Core Values
- Freshness: The company’s central promise is that nothing beats freshly baked bread, and its products are designed to be finished at the point of sale for maximum freshness and aroma.
- Craftsmanship: Pré Pain emphasizes more than 100 years of baking know-how, combining traditional bakery skills with modern production methods.
- Innovation: The company highlights continuous product development, from sourdough and new-generation baguettes to Roasted Seeds and other market introductions.
- Sustainability: Pré Pain links its business to ARYZTA’s sustainability agenda, including lower emissions, less water use, reduced food waste, and more responsible sourcing.
Unique Aspects
- Part of ARYZTA: Since 2015, Pré Pain has been part of ARYZTA, a global specialist in bake-off products, giving it access to broader bakery capabilities and international scale.
- Oldenzaal production hub: The company runs an integrated site in Oldenzaal where product development, production, and distribution take place.
- Specialized bake-off focus: Pré Pain is strongly focused on crispy bake-off bread in the fresh and frozen segments, which is its core market position.
- Scale and operational footprint: The company states that it processes 50 million kilos of flour annually, bakes more than half a billion rolls, baguettes, and specialties each year, and ships bread in about 14,000 trucks per year across Europe.
- In-house technical capabilities: Its history includes a unique in-house developed brick oven line and a sourdough kitchen, showing a mix of industrial scale and artisanal product development.