Canada-based Agropur Cooperative has signed an agreement with Agrifoods to acquire Ultima Foods. Ultima Foods was a 50-50 joint venture by two of Canada’s leading cooperatives; Agrifoods and Agropur. With more than 40 years of ...
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Agropur Cooperative, in partnership with the Quartier de l'innovation de Montréal, AgBioCentre and NineSigma, has announced the launch of Inno Challenge, an initiative to create new dairy products through open innovation. This is a ...
Agropur announced that it has decided to display the new mark of origin indicating quality Canadian milk on all its products. The certification of origin logo unveiled on November 1 by Dairy Farmers of Canada indicates that all the milk ...
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Canadian dairy firm Agropur Cooperative is to cease fluid milk processing operations at its facility in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec. This forms a part of the company's strategy to review and optimize its processing activities, in a ...
Tags: milk processing, food manufacture, dairy products, animal husbandry, milk
A number of Québec's institutional investors and bankers have announced a $470m investment, in the form of preferred units, in Agropur Cooperative, Canada's largest dairy cooperative. The transaction supports the cooperative's ...
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Canadian food retailer Sobeys has agreed to sell its dairy processing operations to Agropur Cooperative, in a deal worth $356m. A strategic partnership agreement to this effect has been concluded by both the companies. Agropur CEO ...
Canada-based Agropur Cooperative has agreed to purchase Northumberland Dairy Cooperative's dairy and food distribution assets. The transaction, which is subject to certain regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, ...
Canada-based Agropur Cooperative has entered into an agreement with Northumberland Dairy Cooperative to acquire Northumberland's dairy and food distribution assets for undisclosed sum. Under the transaction, Agropur will acquire the ...
Agropur Cooperative today held its 75th Annual General Assembly with some 600 members, employees, business partners and guests from the Agri-Food industry in attendance, and reported solid financial health and a strong market position, ...
Agropur Cooperative is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached, as of November 21, 2013, to acquire the assets of Fromagerie Damafro - including those of Fromagerie Clément - located in St-Damase, Quebec. Damafro is a ...
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Agropur Cooperative announces the acquisition of M. Larivée International inc. (MLI), a trading house specializing in dairy products and food ingredients. "We are very pleased with this acquisition," said Serge Riendeau, Chairman ...
Canadian dairy cooperatives, Farmers Co-operative Dairy and Agropur Cooperative have finalized the steps leading to the merging of activities of the two organisations. Agropur produces Natrel, Quebon, Allegro, Olympic and Island Farms ...
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Canadian dairy co-op Agropur has booked what it claimed are "remarkable" annual financial results, with higher sales and core earnings. Agropur posted a 5.1% rise in sales to C$3.7bn for the year to 3 November. The co-op did not provide ...
Canadian dairy cooperatives Agropur and Farmers Co-operative Dairy plan to merge their operations. Announcing the move, the dairies said it would benefit their farmer-owners by providing national scale and accelerating a process of ...
Tags: dairy cooperatives, Agropur, Farmers