Exit Completed: company sold its business/assets or its part of the business to a local partner and leaved the market or liquidated local entity(ies)
Exited Exit Completed
Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) is an international agricultural trading company. Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. (LDC), also called the Louis-Dreyfus Group, is a French merchant firm with HQ in Netherlands that is involved in agriculture, food processing, international shipping, and finance. The company owns and manages hedge funds, ocean vessels, develops and operates telecommunications infrastructures, and it is also involved in real estate development, management and ownership. Along with Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, and Cargill, the Louis-Dreyfus Group is one of the four "ABCD" companies that dominate world agricultural commodity trading.
Exit Completed: company sold its business/assets or its part of the business to a local partner and leaved the market or liquidated local entity(ies)
Exited Exit CompletedRussian agricultural giant, Steppe Agroholding, also has its international trading arm Steppe Trading in Lausanne. The status of their joint venture with Swiss trader LDC, called RZ Agro, which grows grain on its own land in Russia, is unclear. Grain trader Louis Dreyfus is liquidating Russian Elevator Company LLC (RusElCo) and Company Louis Dreyfus Vostok LLC, according to materials from the Fedresurs registry. The decision to liquidate was made on August 6, 2025. Louis Dreyfus announced its exit from Russia in 2023 and ceased exporting Russian grain on July 1 of that year. The sale of assets by foreign companies in Russia requires the approval of the government’s Foreign Investment Supervision Commission, as well as the permission of the Russian president. In November 2024, Vladimir Putin signed a decree authorizing the sale of 100% of RusElCo’s shares, although the deal has not been officially announced. Investment company Horizon Industries plans to acquire the Russian assets of global grain trader Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC). According to market estimates, the deal could be worth as little as 1–3 billion rubles, although the assets were previously valued at tens of billions of rubles. According to reports, Horizon Industries’ subsidiary Temirtek signed preliminary agreements on May 25, 2026, to acquire LDC’s Russian businesses. The proposed deal includes Volgograd Elevator, Louis Dreyfus Vostok, and Russian Elevator Company (RusElCo).
Suspend operations in Russia. "Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) will cease grain exports from Russia from July 1, 2023, as grain export challenges continue to increase in the country, and is also assessing options for the transfer to new owners of its existing Russian business and grain assets," LDC said in a statement. Global grain traders - Cargill, Viterra, Louis Dreyfus have stopped exporting Russian grain since July 1, 2023 and are leaving Russia. They informed the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation about this decision, as well as the fact that they are starting to work out the issues of transferring their business to new owners back in March of 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the acquisition of 100% of the shares in a elevator company owned by trading and food processing firm Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) to an unnamed buyer, a government document showed. 13.08.2025: Paulo Gladchuk is no longer the organization's CEO. Anton Alexandrovich Zykov has become the liquidator of LUIS DREYFUS VOSTOK COMPANY LLC.