LESA

What LESA does

LESA (legal name: Leonesa Astur de Piensos-LESA S.A.) is a Spanish agricultural inputs distributor founded in 1966 and operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grupo Mirat. The company distributes proprietary seeds (cereals, corn, oilseeds, forage crops), fertilizers, and animal feed to farmers across central and northwestern Spain, acting as an official distributor for branded seed suppliers including Pioneer, Dekalb, Lidea, and Hernán Villa Semillas.

LESA's operating model is built around a physical network of more than 20 warehouses, dryers, and storage silos spread across six Spanish provinces — León, Zamora, Salamanca, Valladolid, Palencia, and Badajoz — with a liquid fertilizer factory located in La Garrovilla (Badajoz). The company buys, dries, stores, and commercializes cereal output, effectively operating as both an upstream inputs distributor and a downstream grain aggregator. It also funds R&D projects in collaboration with regional institutions for crop quality improvement and maintains an Integrated Management System for Quality and Environment.

Revenue is generated through transactional sales of seeds and fertilizers (one-time purchase model) and through fees tied to cereal trading, drying, and storage services. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven ("trato personal y confianza"), with field representatives acting as advisors to farmers at warehouse points of sale. There is no public-facing e-commerce, software platform, API, or mobile application; distribution is entirely through owned physical infrastructure. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is presumably negotiated per transaction.

Name

LESA

Legal name

LEONESA ASTUR DE PIENSOS-LESA S.A.

Website

https://lesa.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

1966

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

LESA (Leonesa Astur de Piensos-LESA S.A.) is a Spanish agricultural inputs distributor serving farmers across six provinces with seeds, fertilizers, cereals trading, and storage through a 20+ warehouse network. Founded in 1966, it operates as a subsidiary of Grupo Mirat.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Inputs Distribution

NAICS

Support Activities for Crop Production (11511), Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (32532)

SIC

Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150), Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Harvesting & Combining Services (Grain, Oilseed, Row Crop) (AFACAAAD)

Keywords

• Agricultural inputs distribution
• Seed distribution
• Fertilizer supply
• Cereal storage services
• Crop management advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

León

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices23 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Seeds distribution: LESA distributes a wide range of seeds including cereals (wheat, barley, rye, oats, triticale), corn, oilseeds (rapeseed/canola, sunflower), and forage crops. As an official distributor of Pioneer, Dekalb, Lidea, and Hernan Villa Semillas brands, LESA generates revenue through the sale of proprietary seed varieties to farmers across its network of 20+ warehouse locations in Spain.
2. Fertilizers: LESA commercializes fertilizers alongside seeds and cereals, serving as a one-stop supplier for agricultural inputs. Fertilizers are sold alongside seeds and crop management products from warehouse locations throughout the region.
3. Cereals trading and storage: LESA operates grain storage facilities (almacenes) that dry, store, and commercialize cereals. This service enables farmers to store production and access market sales, with LESA acting as intermediary and aggregator. The company also operates a liquid fertilizer factory in La Garrovilla, Badajoz.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

LESA distributes agricultural inputs including seeds (cereals, corn, oilseeds, forage crops) and fertilizers to farmers across Spain through an extensive network of 20+ warehouse and storage facilities. The company also operates cereal drying, storage, and commercialization services, acting as a one-stop supplier and intermediary for grain trading in central and northwestern Spain. Founded in 1966 and part of Grupo MIRAT, LESA provides personalized advisory services to support sustainable crop cultivation and serves as official distributor for major seed brands (Pioneer, Dekalb, Lidea, Hernán Villa Semillas).

Product overview

LESA operates as an agricultural products company focused on sustainable crop cultivation, offering a unified portfolio centered on three core product lines: seeds (semillas), fertilizers (fertilizantes), and cereals (cereales). The company serves farmers through an extensive warehouse network across Spain, providing both products and storage services. Seeds are distributed through branded partner relationships (Pioneer, Dekalb, Lidea, Hernán Villa Semillas) across crop categories including cereals (wheat, barley, oat, rye, triticale), corn, oilseeds (rapeseed, sunflower), and forage crops. The company has over 50 years of experience (since 1966) and is part of Grupo MIRAT.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Seeds (Semillas)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 50 years of experience advising farmers on seed selection, crop management, and agricultural best practices.
• +1 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Grupo MiratcoreOthersLESA (Leonesa Astur de Piensos-LESA S.A.) is a subsidiary of Grupo Mirat, a Spanish agricultural and commercial group. Grupo Mirat provides LESA with corporate governance infrastructure including a Code of Conduct, Anti-Corruption Policy, and an Internal Information System (Ethical Channel). Grupo Mirat is headquartered at Avenida de la Aldehuela, 10, 37003 Salamanca, with communications contact at [email protected].

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Syngenta Group: Global seeds and crop protection company. Comparable as an upstream supplier and a broad incumbent whose Iberian distribution strategy could pressure or partner with regional distributors like LESA.
• Limagrain: French farmer cooperative and one of the largest seed companies globally (parent of Vilmorin-Mikado), active in field seeds, vegetable seeds, and cereal value-chain services — overlapping with LESA in upstream seed supply and downstream grain/farmer services, but at multinational scale.
• Corteva Agriscience: Global seed and crop protection company (owner of Pioneer, whose varieties LESA distributes). Comparable as the upstream supplier whose brands LESA sells, and relevant for assessing the risk of brand owners shifting to direct distribution.
• Bayer Crop Science: Global agricultural input company and owner of Dekalb seeds, another key brand distributed by LESA. Comparable as upstream supplier and as a potential direct-to-farmer competitor in the Iberian market.

Direct peers

• Grupo AN: Spanish agricultural cooperative group operating in Navarra and surrounding regions, providing seeds, fertilizers, crop protection, and grain commercialization to farmer members — directly comparable multi-line B2B agricultural inputs and grain model to LESA, but at larger cooperative scale.

Others

• Bunge: Global grain originator and trader with significant Iberian origination operations. Comparable on the grain trading and storage side of LESA's business — particularly relevant as a potential counterparty or competitor in cereal commercialization from Castilla y León.
• ADM (Archer Daniels Midland): Global agricultural processor and grain trader. Comparable to LESA on the grain origination, storage, and trading value-chain side rather than input distribution.
• Cargill: Global agribusiness with grain origination, storage, and trading operations across Europe. Comparable as a downstream counterparty and competitor in grain aggregation and commercialization activities adjacent to LESA's warehouse and trading services.

Regional players

• Euralis: French agricultural cooperative group active in seed production (Lidea, formerly Euralis Semences), cereals, and poultry, with a similar integrated farmer-input and grain commercialization model. Lidea is already one of LESA's distributed seed brands, making the overlap particularly direct on the upstream supply side.
• ACOR (Sociedad Cooperativa General Agropecuaria): Spanish agricultural cooperative focused on sugar beet and complementary crops, with farmer-member input supply and offtake. Comparable as a Spanish regional cooperative model for aggregated farmer inputs and crop commercialization, though focused on sugar beet rather than cereals.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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