Lehe Food

Name

Lehe Food

Legal name

乐禾食品集团股份有限公司

Website

https://le-he.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

B2B Food Supply Chain Services

NAICS

Food Service Contractors (72231), Special Food Services (7223)

SIC

Wholesale-Groceries & Related Products (5140), Wholesale-Groceries, General Line (5141), Canned, Frozen & Preservd Fruit, Veg & Food Specialties (2030), Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Corporate & Catering Online Ordering/Delivery (AFAIAMAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Ethnic Produce & Specialty Vegetables Wholesale (AFAIAIAD)

Keywords

• B2B food supply
• Clean vegetable processing
• Cold chain logistics
• Central kitchen services
• Food safety traceability

Headquarters

HQ city

Guangzhou

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. B2B Food Supply Service: Core business providing daily food supply to thousands of large institutional canteens, supermarkets, and hotels, offering thousands of food product categories
2. Clean Vegetable Processing: Pre-cut vegetable processing through 5 factories in Shanghai, Dongguan, Zhanjiang, Kunming, and Hangzhou
3. LeMiao Central Kitchen: Primary and secondary school central kitchen operations with standardized quality management
4. Cold Chain Logistics: Cold chain logistics services with self-built cold storage and transportation network
5. Industrial Park: Food safety guarantee bases serving schools, government, military, and enterprises
6. Modern Agriculture: Modern agriculture integrated services through agricultural industrial parks

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Lehe Food is a B2B food supply chain service provider delivering thousands of food product categories daily to large institutional canteens, supermarkets, and hotels. The company operates an integrated food supply ecosystem including clean vegetable processing across five regional factories, central kitchen operations for K-12 schools, cold chain logistics, catering management solutions, and proprietary food safety traceability technology.

Product overview

Lehe Food Group is a comprehensive B2B food supply service provider established in 2006, operating as a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core platform is the B2B Food Supply Service (B2B食材供应服务), which provides one-stop procurement solutions for large institutional clients. This core is supported by multiple specialized modules including Clean Vegetable Processing (净菜加工) with 5 regional factories, LEMIAO (乐苗) central kitchen operations for schools, Cold Chain Logistics (冷链物流) for distribution, Catering Management (餐饮管理) solutions, Industrial Parks (产业园) for food safety bases, Technology Lehe (科技乐禾) for digital platforms including ERP and traceability systems, and Modern Agriculture (现代农业) for upstream integration. The company has established itself as a National Key Agricultural Industrialization Leading Enterprise with over 130 subsidiary companies nationwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• 乐苗 (LEMIAO): Central kitchen operations for primary and secondary schools, focused on food safety and standardized management systems

Products and services

• B2B Food Supply Service (B2B食材供应服务) One-stop food raw material procurement solution providing daily supply of thousands of food product categories to large institutional canteens, supermarkets, and hotels.
• Clean Vegetable Processing (净菜加工) Clean vegetable processing through 5 factories located in Shanghai, Dongguan, Zhanjiang, Kunming, and Hangzhou, supplying products to large supermarkets and catering enterprises in Hong Kong and Macau.
• LEMIAO Central Kitchen (乐苗) Central kitchen operations for primary and secondary schools, focused on food safety and standardized operations with a comprehensive quality management system from farm to table.
• Cold Chain Logistics (冷链物流) Fresh food logistics services leveraging self-built high-standard cold storage, transportation and distribution network, and intelligent logistics systems for fully visible warehouse-integration coverage.
• Catering Management Solutions (餐饮管理) Comprehensive catering management solutions provider offering one-stop refined, professionalized, and digitized catering management services.
• Industrial Park Food Safety Base (产业园) Food safety guarantee base from farm to table with tripartite supervision by government, consumers, and enterprises, serving schools, government institutions, military, enterprises, and residents.
• Technology Lehe Digital Platforms (科技乐禾) Technology-enabled food supply ecosystem including smart agriculture cloud platform, food safety cloud platform, agricultural product traceability system, food supply cloud collaborative ERP system, and digital canteen solutions.
• Modern Agriculture Solutions (现代农业) Modern agriculture solutions optimizing integration of agricultural production factors, using agricultural industrial parks as carriers to build comprehensive modern agriculture service platforms with digital agriculture one-stop solutions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Daily supply to thousands of large institutional canteens
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Direct peers

• Meicai (美菜网): Chinese B2B food supply platform serving restaurants and institutional buyers with sourcing, processing, and delivery. Direct competitor to Lehe Food in the online institutional food distribution space.

Emerging players

• Hema / Freshippo (盒马): Alibaba's fresh food retail and supply chain platform with integrated sourcing, processing, and last-mile delivery. Increasingly competing in institutional food supply through B2B channels, intersecting with Lehe's customer segments.
• Missfresh (每日优鲜): Chinese fresh food e-commerce platform with distributed cold chain warehousing. Comparable to Lehe's cold chain infrastructure and fresh food focus, though primarily serving retail rather than institutional customers.

Broad incumbents

• COFCO Group (中粮集团): China's largest state-owned food and grain conglomerate, covering agricultural production, processing, branding, and distribution. Overlaps with Lehe in B2B food supply and cold chain but operates at vastly larger scale across multiple food categories.
• Yihai Kerry (益海嘉里): Major Chinese food ingredient manufacturer and distributor (Arawana brand). Comparable to Lehe in food processing and B2B supply capabilities, though more focused on oils, rice, and flour rather than fresh produce.
• Performance Food Group: Major US foodservice distributor with broad institutional customer base including schools, restaurants, and convenience stores. Comparable business model to Lehe's nationwide B2B food supply network.
• Shuanghui Development (双汇发展): China's largest meat processing enterprise with extensive cold chain and B2B distribution. Comparable to Lehe in cold chain logistics and institutional food supply, though focused on meat rather than fresh produce.
• US Foods: One of the largest American foodservice distributors, serving hospitals, schools, and restaurants. Closely comparable to Lehe's B2B model of supplying thousands of institutional food service customers daily.
• Sysco Corporation: Global leader in B2B food distribution to restaurants, healthcare, education, and hospitality. Direct analog for Lehe's institutional food supply model, demonstrating the scale and category breadth achievable in food distribution.
• Anjoy Foods (安井食品): Leading Chinese frozen and prepared food manufacturer serving B2B foodservice channels including canteens, restaurants, and hotels. Comparable to Lehe's clean vegetable processing and central kitchen operations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors10 records

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M&A

Investments

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