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A Heinz ketchup packing line. (Kraft Heinz video screengrab)
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Kraft Heinz backed for ketchup production in Montreal

Company to add ketchup line at Mont Royal site

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A $23.3 million expansion of Kraft Heinz’s food manufacturing complex in Montreal will see the company resume making Heinz ketchup for Canada, in Canada. The U.S.-based food processing giant and the Quebec government on Nov. 17 announced the expansion plan for the company’s Mont Royal plant, which today makes products such as KD Mac + […] Read more
Kraft Heinz Canada uses about 180 million pounds of Ontario tomatoes in its products every year, Highbury Canco said.
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Heinz renews agreement for Ontario tomatoes

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Highbury Canco has renewed its agreement with Kraft Heinz Canada to produce Kraft Heinz products at its Leamington, Ont., facility. The multi-year agreement is worth about $1 billion at retail value. Highbury Canco has a long-standing relationship with Kraft Heinz Canada, producing some of Canada’s most beloved brands, including Heinz beans, Heinz tomato juice and […] Read more
Processing tomato exports over the past 10 years. Note that Heinz’s Leamington plant shut down in the middle of this time period. (Tomato juice, past and procuts (incl. ketchup). Source: OMAFRA International Trade Database Adapted from Statistics Canada, Economic Anaylsis Unit)
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Processing tomato export numbers debated

Where are all the tomatoes going?

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The processing tomato market was upended in 2013 when Heinz, the province’s largest processor left. The health of the sector since is being hotly debated. Hardeman recently tweeted a graph that showed a large decline in processing tomato exports from Ontario. In 2008, Ontario exported $75 million worth of processed tomato products (juice, paste and […] Read more
(Hellmann’s Canada via YouTube)
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Kraft walks away from ‘friendly’ bid for Unilever

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New York | Reuters –– U.S. food company Kraft Heinz withdrew its proposal for a US$143 billion merger with larger rival Unilever, the companies said Sunday, raising questions about whether Kraft will turn its focus to another target. Kraft had made a surprise offer for Unilever to build a global consumer goods behemoth — an […] Read more
Kraft Heinz, whose salad dressing and sauce offerings include A1, plans to shut its dressing and sauces plant at St. Marys, Ont. and six other U.S. facilities. (Todd Rosenberg photo courtesy KraftFoodsGroup.com)
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Kraft Heinz to shut SW Ont. salad dressing plant

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Merged food and condiment giant Kraft Heinz will shut down its salad dressing and sauce factory in southwestern Ontario and six other U.S. plants in a bid to cut its “excess capacity.” The company announced Wednesday it will shut its Richardson Foods plant at St. Marys, Ont., which makes and sells salad dressings, sauces and […] Read more
(Todd Rosenberg photo via KraftFoodsGroup.com)
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Kraft Heinz to cut 2,500 jobs in Canada, U.S.

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Reuters — Kraft Heinz Co. said it will eliminate 2,500 jobs in the U.S. and Canada, including about 700 at its Chicago-area headquarters. Heinz, backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian private equity firm 3G Capital — known as an aggressive cost-cutter — combined with Kraft in March in a $46 billion deal that […] Read more
(Todd Rosenberg photo via KraftFoodsGroup.com)
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Canadian, U.S. regulators clear Heinz and Kraft merger

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Antitrust regulators in both Canada and the U.S. have fixed their seals of official inaction on ketchup giant H.J. Heinz’s play for control of Kraft Foods Group. Canada’s Competition Bureau has confirmed that it wrapped its review of the proposed deal and issued its “no action” letter to the companies on Wednesday. A “no action” […] Read more

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