Agrial

About Agrial

Agrial is a French agricultural and agri-food cooperative owned and governed by farmers. It works across the chain from farm to consumer, collecting and valorizing members’ raw materials, commercializing their production, and developing food-processing activities in France and internationally.

The cooperative positions itself as a multi-specialist group built around strong brands, local roots, and long-term resilience. It serves consumers, foodservice customers, retailers, and industrial clients with products that are meant to be healthy, tasty, accessible, and responsibly produced.

Core Values

• Sustainability: Agrial places sustainable development at the center of its project, with climate action, lower-impact packaging, energy transition, and responsible farming practices as recurring priorities.
• Proximity: The cooperative emphasizes local presence, close relationships with members and stakeholders, and a territorial footprint that links production, processing, and distribution.
• Solidarity: Its cooperative model is built on mutual support among members, shared value creation, and collective resilience across diverse activities and regions.
• Long-term continuity: Agrial highlights permanence, stability, and the preservation of its cooperative identity while adapting to changing consumer and environmental expectations.
• Innovation and audacity: The group presents innovation as essential to its future, from agronomic support and product development to industrial improvement and new commercial models.

Unique Aspects

• Farmer-owned cooperative governance: Agrial operates on the principle of one person, one vote, with elected farmer representatives involved in more than 50 governance bodies.
• Multi-specialist structure: The cooperative spans five major activity poles and multiple production filières, allowing it to combine agricultural support, processing, and distribution in one model.
• Strong international footprint: Agrial says it operates in 11 countries and sells brands in 130 countries, with significant international activity in dairy, vegetables, and beverages.
• Broad branded portfolio: The group says it has 68 brands and more than 900 products, giving it a consumer-facing presence from breakfast to dinner.
• Climate plan certified by SBTi: Agrial’s Climate Plan 2035 was certified by the Science Based Targets initiative, underscoring a formalized emissions-reduction pathway.
• Innovation ecosystem and partnerships: The cooperative works with research bodies, technical centers, startups, and networks such as INRAE, the Village by CA Normandie, and several competitiveness clusters to support R&D and open innovation.