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In order to ensure that the bread develops a soft texture, yeast and sourdough are used when baking.

WATER, WHOLE GRAIN, SOURDOUGH AND TIME

BREAD HAS A GREAT HISTORY – AND A GREAT FUTURE.

ALMOST 50% OF THE EXHIBITORS ARE PROMOTING THE BAKING INDUSTRY WITH THEIR IDEAS.

Quality plays a very important role at Lieken: All bread and bakery goods are baked in modern bakeries in accordance and adherence with the most stringent health standards.
Lieken delivers its products to 12,000 retail stores and so ensures fresh bread and bread rolls on the breakfast table.
Every day, uncountable loaves of bread and bakery products leave the  Lieken industrial bakeries.
The quality of the goods is checked by means of regular inspections by independent institutes.
Good bread needs one thing in particular: A lot of rest.
Sustainability is not just a fad for Lieken; it has already been a cornerstone of the company philosophy for a very long time.
An employee checks the quality of the goods at Lieken's Bakery in Lüdersdorf.
Prior to being baked, the individual pieces of dough are sprinkled with fresh grains.
Get into the basket: Soon fresh bread will be filled up.
The more grains bread has, the better it is for the digestion.
The 200 to 250 degrees in the oven give the bread its aromatic crust and a soft and moist crumb.
During the baking processes, the bakers constantly check the temperature in the ovens.
After being baked, the bread first needs to cool off before it can be cut and packaged.
Extremely long indeed: A baking line consisting of pre-bake and bake-through oven can be up to 60 metres long.
Metres long bread enjoyment is waiting to be consumed.
With around 300 types of bread and 1,200 small bakery products, Germany is the global leader when it concerns the topic of bread varieties.
On average, every German eats almost  83 kg bread and bakery products each year.
Fritz Lieken, the company's founder is regarded as a pioneer of wholegrain bread. It was his goal to bake high-quality wholegrain products for everyone.
With the production of the goods, exclusively high-quality raw materials are used. Without exception!
Quality that you can taste: In addition to ensuring the best quality raw ingredients, Lieken also places great emphasis on the correct cultivation methods and short transporting distances.
The big goal for the future: All LIEKEN URKORN and GOLDEN TOAST products are to become "CLEAN LABEL“, meaning free of all additives.

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