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Parmalat’s play for Kraft cheeses clears regulators

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff May 31, 2019

Dairy giant Parmalat’s proposed $1.62 billion deal for Kraft Heinz’s “natural” cheese business in Canada has cleared federal antitrust regulators. The federal Competition Bureau on Thursday said it issued a “no action letter” to the two companies and would put up a position statement detailing its reasons in the “coming days.” The deal is expected

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Canadian dairies get significant control over imports under TPP

By GFM Network News November 27, 2018

Toronto | Reuters — Canada will give local dairy processors significant control over imports under a new trade deal with Pacific countries that opens the sheltered industry to further competition, according to a notice published by the federal government, which drew criticism from Canadian retailers. New quotas created by the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Parmalat to buy Kraft’s Ontario cheese plant, brands

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff November 16, 2018

U.S. food processing giant Kraft Heinz is taking one step back from the Canadian dairy processing business with a deal to sell its eastern Ontario cheese plant and the brands made there. The company announced Nov. 6 it has a deal in hand to sell its Canadian “natural cheese” business and its cheese plant at

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Agropur to shut Monteregie fine cheese plant

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff September 23, 2018

A Quebec cheese plant formerly known as a top maker of Camembert- and Brie-type cheeses is set to shut permanently in April after five years under Agropur’s ownership. Quebec-based Agropur, North America’s biggest dairy co-operative, announced Friday it will start winding down operations at its Saint-Damase cheese plant in January ahead of the April 2019

Parmesan wheels seasoning. (Claudio Ventrella/iStock/Getty Images)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

‘Buyer beware’ on Canada’s cheese concessions, EU exporters say

By Allison Martell, GFM Network News, Philip Blenkinsop September 13, 2018

Toronto/Brussels | Reuters — A trade deal meant to give European cheesemakers more access to the Canadian market is falling short of its promise in its first full year, government data show, frustrating the European industry, which blames a year-old Ottawa quota system. Under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union,

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Babybel cheesemakers to set up Quebec plant

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 12, 2018

The makers of those little individual cheese snacks in the red wax shells plan to start producing them at their own new Canadian plant starting in early 2020. France’s Bel Group, whose brands in Canada include The Laughing Cow, Boursin and the aforementioned Mini Babybel, announced Thursday it will put up $87 million to build

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Saputo urges end to contentious Class 7 system

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel June 18, 2018

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Saputo, one of Canada’s largest dairies, supports ending a domestic milk ingredient pricing system that has angered the United States, CEO Lino Saputo Jr. said on Monday, showing a rare crack in solidarity among processors and the country’s dairy farmers. The Class 7 pricing agreement, struck in 2016 between Canadian dairy

Livestock, Markets

Mexico hits back on U.S. steel, slaps tariffs on pork, bourbon

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 6, 2018

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico responded in kind to U.S. President Donald Trump’s metals tariffs by imposing its own duties on U.S. steel on Tuesday, while also targeting politically sensitive agricultural products from pork to bourbon. Mexico’s peso tumbled to its weakest level since February 2017, leading losses among major currencies due to the

Rachel Isaak and Dustin Peltier are taking over production of the traditional Trappist cheese made at the Holland monastery. The couple, who operates a catering company in Winnipeg, now possesses the last four wheels of cheese to be made there.

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Monastery passes on cheese-making method

A Winnipeg couple has been entrusted with a rare Trappist cheese recipe set for extinction

By Lorraine Stevenson January 15, 2018

Dustin Peltier and Rachel Isaak had no idea they’d one day carry on a centuries-old cheese-making method when they paid their first visit to the Trappist Monastery at Holland. That was two years ago, when the Winnipeg chefs and life partners went out to meet the monk there making a delicious cheese they’d served to

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy co-op Gay Lea buys Calgary cheesemaker

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 17, 2017

Ontario dairy farmer co-operative Gay Lea Foods’ plans for expansion into Western Canada now include Calgary cheesemaker Alberta Cheese Company. Gay Lea announced Monday it has bought the family-owned processor, effective Friday (Oct. 13), for an undisclosed sum. Set up in 1976 by cheesemaker Frank Talarico, Alberta Cheese makes “traditional” Italian cheeses for sale under

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Tag Archives Cheese

Parmalat’s play for Kraft cheeses clears regulators

Canadian dairies get significant control over imports under TPP

Parmalat to buy Kraft’s Ontario cheese plant, brands

Agropur to shut Monteregie fine cheese plant

‘Buyer beware’ on Canada’s cheese concessions, EU exporters say

Babybel cheesemakers to set up Quebec plant

Saputo urges end to contentious Class 7 system

Mexico hits back on U.S. steel, slaps tariffs on pork, bourbon

Monastery passes on cheese-making method

Dairy co-op Gay Lea buys Calgary cheesemaker

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