Dairy co-op Agropur plans to make inroads in the Centre-du-Quebec and organic milk markets by buying Laitierie Lamothe, a Drummondville, Que. dairy.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed in the company’s announcement Friday, other than that the Lamothe operations will join the Agropur division Natrel, billed as “a Canadian leader in fluid milk and value-added dairy products.”
“What’s special about Laiterie
Lamothe is that it caters to market segments in which we’re not active, like
organic milk,” Agropur CEO Pierre Claprood said in the company’s release. “This acquisition will allow us to expand our line of products
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Lamothe president Jean-Claude Lamothe said he hoped the brand’s customers would continue to buy Lamothe products by supporting Natrel. “I am happy that Agropur is continuing its plant operations and proud that the company has expansion projects for organic milk,” he said in Agropur’s release.
Laiterie Lamothe’s products include fluid milk, flavoured milk, omega-3
Agropur, which bills itself as Canada’s largest dairy co-op, also produces the Québon, Oka, Sealtest and Island Farms dairy product brands. The company has been in expansion mode in recent months, starting a joint venture with a South American agri-food company, to develop a dairy business on that continent, and venturing further into the U.S. market by buying Trega Foods, a Wisconsin cheese company.
