Lotus Biscoff

Lotus Biscoff is the best-known brand of Lotus Bakeries, a Belgian company based in Lembeke in East Flanders. The company's history begins in 1932, when Jan Boone Sr. made a caramelised cookie from natural ingredients and named it Lotus. Since 1988 Lotus Bakeries has been listed on Euronext Brussels, and the Boone and Stevens families remain its majority shareholders.

Products

• Biscoff biscuits: the original caramelised cookie that is often served with coffee
• Biscoff spread: sold since 2008, made from the biscuits, also used as an ingredient in desserts such as cheesecake or tiramisu
• Biscoff sandwich cookies with a chocolate, vanilla or Biscoff cream filling
• Biscoff chocolate and ice cream, both launched in recent years

Good to know

The United States became the biggest sales market for Biscoff in 2016, and the company opened a Biscoff plant there, from which the first US-made cookies came. Lotus Bakeries also owns other snack brands, among them nākd, TREK and BEAR. The range differs from country to country, so not every product is sold everywhere.