Long An Food Processing Export

What Long An Food Processing Export does

Long An Food Processing Export (LAF), operating under the brand LAFOOCO, is a Vietnam-based food processing company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Tân An, Long An Province. The company manufactures and exports cashew nuts and other edible nuts, serving international buyers in the global nut trade. It is publicly listed on the Hanoi Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HNX:LAF, with an employee base of 101–250 people.

The company's business model centers on sourcing raw cashew nuts — predominantly from Vietnam's Mekong Delta cashew belt, of which Long An Province is a major node — and processing them into kernels and value-added nut products for export markets. Vietnam is the world's largest cashew kernel exporter, and LAF's positioning within this cluster provides structural cost and supply advantages. The firm operates a single-product-line commodity-processing model with revenue tied to international cashew prices, export volumes, and VND/USD exchange rates.

LAF is publicly listed on HNX, making it subject to Vietnamese securities-market disclosure and governance requirements. The firm has been in continuous operation for approximately four decades, suggesting established supplier relationships, processing know-how, and customer channels in overseas nut-trade distribution. The company website (lafooco.vn) and operational footprint remain constrained to publicly available summary data, with no disclosed customer mix, product portfolio detail, or financial performance metrics available in the current data set.

Name

Long An Food Processing Export

Legal name

Long An Food Processing Export

Website

https://lafooco.vn

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Long An Food Processing Export is a Vietnam-based food processor that manufactures and exports cashew nuts and other nuts under the LAFOOCO brand, publicly listed on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX:LAF) since its 1985 founding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cashew Nut Processing and Export

NAICS

Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing (3114)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Dried & Dehydrated Foods Manufacturing (AFAKACAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Nuts, Seeds & Dried Fruit Trading/Wholesale (AFAIAKAF), Seaweed & Dried Vegetable Snacks Manufacturing (AFAKAIAI)

Keywords

• Cashew nut processing
• Edible nut export
• Food manufacturing
• Agricultural commodity export
• Vietnamese nut producer

Headquarters

HQ city

Tân An

HQ country

Vietnam

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

Long An Food Processing Export manufactures and exports cashew nuts and other edible nuts. The company processes raw cashew and other nut raw materials at its facility in Tân An, Vietnam, into finished nut products for sale to downstream commercial buyers. It operates under the trade name LAFOOCO.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cashew nuts

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Diamond Foods: US snack and nut company with branded popcorn, nuts, and culinary ingredient products; comparable as a tree-nut processor and marketer with branded retail and ingredient programs.
• Wonderful Pistachios (The Wonderful Company): Vertically integrated US pistachio grower, processor, and branded marketer; comparable as a tree-nut processor combining agricultural processing with branded and ingredient sales.
• Blue Diamond Growers: US almond grower-owned cooperative with manufacturing, ingredient, and branded consumer product lines; comparable as a large-scale tree-nut processor across ingredient and consumer channels.
• John B. Sanfilippo & Son: US public company that processes and markets tree nuts and peanuts under branded and private-label programs; comparable in nut-processing manufacturing scale, branded and ingredient customer mix.
• Cargill: Global agribusiness and food ingredient processor with substantial cocoa and edible-nuts activities; comparable as a large incumbent operating in cashew and other edible nuts with diversified sourcing and customer base.

Direct peers

• Select Harvests: Australian-listed almond grower and processor; comparable as a publicly listed agribusiness focused on a single tree nut category with international sales and ingredient-snack end markets.
• Olam Food Ingredients (ofi): Singapore-headquartered global nut and ingredient processor with major cashew processing operations in Vietnam; directly comparable in cashew sourcing, processing, and international export to LAFOOCO.
• Ralson Remedies (Ralson Group): India-based cashew processor and exporter with multi-decade operating history; directly comparable as a cashew-focused processor competing with Vietnamese exporters like LAFOOCO in international markets.
• HTMeC (Hoang Thanh Mechanical Cashew): Vietnamese cashew processor and exporter operating large-scale mechanical processing lines; comparable domestic peer competing in international cashew kernel markets.
• Agrex Saigon: Vietnam-based agricultural export company with cashew kernel export activity; comparable as a domestic competitor operating in the same Vietnamese cashew export value chain.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/long-an-food-processing-export-jsc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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