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Flatbread firm FGF buys Weston Foods bakery business

Weston selling to focus on retail, real estate

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The parent company for Canadian grocery and retail giant Loblaw is taking a major step out of the baked goods business. George Weston Ltd. announced Oct. 26 it would sell its Weston Foods fresh and frozen bakery businesses to an arm of Toronto-based bakery firm FGF Brands for $1.2 billion. The company expects to close
(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Hogs, Livestock

Ontario hog set-aside plan underway

AgriRecovery program taking applications through March

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Ontario hog farmers can now apply for AgriRecovery toward feed costs for hogs held back from sale when certain pork packers went into COVID-19-induced slowdowns. Agricorp, the province’s ag program delivery agency, on Nov. 25 announced the Canada-Ontario COVID-19 2020 Hog Maintenance Feed Initiative, which started effective Nov. 6 and will run through to March
Loblaw, Weston bake the numbers, burn consumers
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Loblaw, Weston bake the numbers, burn consumers

As shocking as it was, most of us will eventually forget Loblaw’s admission of price-fixing. Let’s hope the industry doesn’t


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Most Canadians were stunned and dismayed to learn that the country’s leading grocer was caught up in a price-fixing scheme with bread maker George Weston Ltd., which is owned by the same company. The scheme lasted from 2001 to 2015. As a result, Loblaw Companies fired several people and gave $25 gift certificates to millions
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Cereals, Crops

Major retailers say federal bread pricing probe underway

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Major Canadian grocery retailers Metro and Loblaw say a federal investigation is underway concerning the pricing of certain commercial bread products. Toronto-based Loblaw and its parent firm, George Weston Ltd., announced Tuesday they’re aware of an “industry-wide investigation” by the federal Competition Bureau concerning a “price-fixing scheme involving certain packaged bread products.” The two companies
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ALUS program boosted by new funding

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ALUS doesn’t live here anymore, but the Manitoba-born conservation program might again thanks to grants from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation. “We’re looking at delivering ALUS (Alternate Land Use Services) to eight new communities, four of which will be in Ontario and four in the West,” said Jim Fisher, Delta Waterfowl Foundation’s director of conservation
Beef cattle, News

Ontario Gets ALUS Funding, Manitoba Doesn’t

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Ontario is getting money for Alternative Land Use Services projects while Manitoba, where the idea for the program originated, is not. An ALUS project in Ontario’s Norfolk Country recently received $1.5 million to help farmers carry out environmentally sound practices on their land. Meanwhile in Manitoba, ALUS remains stalled after its lone pilot project ended
Crops

Processing Biggest Market For Potatoes

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“My role is to help ensure the best-quality potatoes as possible.” Another crop of process potatoes destined for McCain’s french fry plant east of Coaldale is in the ground. Typically, McCain contracts about 11,000 acres with 32 growers in the province. About 25 per cent of the growers is exclusive to McCain, while the rest
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Mexican baker buys Weston’s U. S. bread unit

Bimbo said Dec. 10 it will buy the U. S. bread-making unit of George Weston Ltd. for US$2.38 billion, one of the biggest acquisitions in the Mexican bread-maker’s history. Bimbo, one of the world’s top makers of bread, said it would finance the acquisition using a long-term credit of $1.7 billion, in two tranches, and

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