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Annual Mondelēz Canada Bike Build provides 100 children with new bicycles
“It was like Christmas morning” as 100 children, ages six to 12, scurried to recently unwrap the large boxes at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Eastview and East Scarborough in Toronto. Inside were the parts – wheels, handlebars, gears…
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Beretta Farms moves offices back to the original King City farm
Beretta Farms has announced that its head office is moving back to the farm. The company’s headquarters will now operate out of the rural property located just outside of King City, Ontario. The company said the move highlights the company’s constant innovation and…
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Get Agricultured at the 2018 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
The 2018 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair comes complete with a new campaign—“Get Agricultured”—as well as a wide list of features and activities that help bring the best of the country to the city. “Get Agricultured hits at the core of…
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First dietary fiber verified natural according to ISO
Major chicory root processor Sensus announced today that their full range of chicory inulin and oligofructose products qualifies as natural according to the new ISO 19657:2017 standard. About a year after ISO set a new standard for food ingredients to…
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Agropur launches first dairy accelerator in North America
Dairy cooperative Agropur has launched Inno Accel, North America’s first accelerator for dairy businesses. Inno Accel is an offshoot of the Inno Agropur program, the largest open innovation initiative in the North American dairy industry. It matches Agropur’s resources with…
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Danone accelerates the transition towards a circular economy of packaging
Danone announces a series of new commitments and actions to ensure its packaging will become 100 per cent circular, and to accelerate the global transition towards a circular economy of packaging. This includes: initiatives to improve product design and develop…
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Eagle Packaging Machinery is now EndFlex
Eagle Packaging Machinery LLC has announced that the company will operate under the new name EndFlex LLC, effective immediately. Company ownership and staff have not changed. EndFlex, is a Florida-based manufacturer of secondary and end-of-line automated packaging solutions including case…
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Tate & Lyle names Quadra as its Canadian distributor for food and beverage solutions
Tate & Lyle PLC (Tate & Lyle) has announced an expanded partnership with Quadra. Tate & Lyle has selected Quadra as its preferred national distributor in Canada for its Food & Beverage Solutions Divison. As a global leader in sugar…
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Government of Canada announces new working groups for dairy, poultry and egg sectors
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Lawrence MacAulay, announced October 29 that working groups have been established for the Canadian dairy, poultry and egg sectors to help them develop strategies to fully and fairly support farmers and processors to help them…
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CPTPP trade agreement receives Royal Assent
The last domestic legislative hurdle to enacting the CPTPP trade deal with Pacific rim countries has been cleared. The deal was approved by senate and received Royal Assent the afternoon of Oct. 25. The moves makes Canada one of the…
