Maple Leaf Foods

Maple Leaf Foods is a large, Canadian, internationally operating food company with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Headquartered in Toronto, the company has additional offices in Canada. In addition, the company is also active in the United States, the United Kingdom, Asia and Mexico.

History

After the founding of the company was mainly known as Canada Packers. The company was founded in 1927 by the merger of several food manufacturing companies. The main business area of the company was initially the meat processing. The company exported pork in the United Kingdom. Due to the expansion in the west of the country, the company has developed into Canada 's largest slaughter companies. The company began more market areas to be developed and produced, inter alia, Peanut butter cream and cheeses, baked goods. In 1975, the company was the 14th largest in Canada. During the eighties, the company ran into financial difficulties. It was purchased by the British British Hill Down Holdings, which has many abattoirs either sold or tactics involved. Furthermore, the company was with another company Maple Leaf Mills fused. From this merger, the company is still active today Maple Leaf Foods was established. By merging and leadership of David Newton as CEO and Lewis Rose as CFO, the company achieved profitability again. Some time later the company of Wallace McCain, the former Chief Operating Officer of McCain Foods was bought. Wallace McCain was forced out of the family McCain Foods of his brother and co-owner of Harrison McCain. In 2003 the company took over the competitors Schneider Foods. The company is one of the largest Canadian agricultural enterprises un has large poultry farms, pig farms and wheat fields that spread across the country.

Divisions

• Meat Processing
• Baked goods
• Pasta
• Agriculture