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A COLLECTION OF SIX INDEPENDENT COMPANIES EACH DEDICATED TO DISCOVERING AND PRODUCING PRODUCTS TO ENHANCE HEALTH AND NUTRITION.

APC

APC’s mission is to help animals – and plants – thrive through the use of innovative functional proteins that positively impact their health.

BHJ

BHJ is a leading, global supplier of animal proteins for the international food and pet food industries. BHJ’s mission: Together we create sustainable ingredients and solutions.

Boyer Valley Company

Boyer Valley Company (BVC) processes and distributes products that serve as essential base ingredients for various industries, including aquaculture, pet food, animal feed, renewable fuels, and organic fertilizer production.

Essentia Protein Solutions

Driven to fulfill customer needs, we help improve food products across the world for both people and pets. Using natural raw materials and innovative manufacturing processes, Essentia creates valuable protein solutions that are clean-label and free from major allergens.

Proliant Dairy Ingredients

Proliant Dairy Ingredients is passionately committed to developing the highest quality dairy ingredients. With over 30 years of experience in the dairy industry, Proliant Dairy Ingredients is both a partner and a resource for food and feed products manufacturers.

Proliant Health & Biologicals

Committed to the Pursuit of a Healthier Future. The Proliant Health & Biologicals team is driven by the idea that there are always opportunities to innovate. The collective experience and backgrounds of the team provide a diverse set of credentials with the goal of shaping the future of animal and human health.

ABOUT THE LAURIDSEN GROUP

LGI’s foundation began in 1916 as the Lauridsen Creamery, selling butter, eggs and poultry to the local community. Although our headquarters in Ankeny, Iowa, is not far from the old creamery in Dedham, Iowa, the company is now worldwide with more than fifty manufacturing and sales locations in twenty countries and sales in more than sixty countries.

Each company under the LGI umbrella is truly independent. They have the ability and the charge to be entrepreneurial, to seek out new markets, to develop new products and applications, and – above all – to discover new ways to add value through fractionation and novel application.

What’s more, because some LGI companies have offices and presence around the world, all LGI companies benefit from their exposure to new markets, new products, new applications and new thinking.

OUR HISTORY

In 1916, Hans Lauridsen, an immigrant from Denmark, established the Dedham Creamery in Dedham, Iowa. For the next 32 years he oversaw the birth of a thriving business as the creamery — renamed the Lauridsen Creamery when his two sons joined him in the business — expanded into more than 10 other cities in western Iowa. By 1942, the company had outgrown its original facilities and a new, modern creamery was built in Dedham.

Hans’ son Walter (“Wally”) built the Lauridsen Creamery in Denison, Iowa, in 1954. Wally later got involved in the meatpacking industry and helped to build facilities for Iowa Beef Processors (IBP) starting with a facility in Denison. In 1970, Wally’s career shifted toward entrepreneurial ventures in the meatpacking industry with partial ownership of a pork slaughter facility in Madison, Nebraska, known as Madison Foods, and in 1975, complete ownership of a ham canning facility in Britt, Iowa, known as Lauridsen Foods. Both businesses were subsequently sold.

In 1975, Nix, the son of Wally, joined what would evolve into The Lauridsen Group (LGI). Together, Wally and Nix explored various byproducts from dairy and meat. Under Nix’s leadership, LGI focused on developing value-added products for the medical, food, and animal industries. Today, under the leadership of Nix’s daughter Christine, LGI has grown to encompass over 60 facilities worldwide.