Natur Food and Heliadis acquired by Haudecoeur

Haudecoeur acquired Natur Food and Heliadis in July 2026, two family-owned businesses whose owners sold in full while their founders and senior managers stayed with the companies. The French group was backed by Apheon, LFPI and the founding Haudecoeur family, and the combined turnover of the three businesses should exceeded EUR 350m. Founded in 1932, Haudecoeur imports, produces and distributes world food: Maghrebi, Asian, African and Caribbean products, from rice and pulses to couscous, spices and prepared dishes. It sources them abroad, processes part of its range at its own plant in La Courneuve, and sells more than 1,500 product lines under its own brands to specialist grocers, supermarkets, foodservice operators and consumers, from warehouses in the Paris region and the south of France. The two acquisitions took the group outside France for the first time. Natur Food, based in Germany, supplies the Turkish community there, a population the group had not reached, and gave it a base from which to serve Turkish customers in France as well. Heliadis, based in Belgium, brought a foodservice customer base and a range of prepared sauces, a category Haudecoeur did not manufacture. World food distribution rests on sourcing and on knowing which products each community buys, which is built market by market: a distributor serving North African customers in France holds little of what is needed to serve Turkish customers in Germany. Acquiring established operators gave Haudecoeur both the supplier relationships and the retail listings that would have taken years to assemble.