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Food Processing Industry Roundtable

The food processing industry is one of the largest manufacturing industries in Canada, providing employment for 290,000 Canadians and producing shipments worth $117.8 billion in 2019. It accounts for 17% of total manufacturing shipments and 2% of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The food processing industry is an integral part of the Canadian food supply chain as it purchases about 40% of the Canadian agricultural production and sells over 70% of its output to Canadian retailers and foodservice providers.

Key objectives:

understand the challenges and opportunities facing the industry as well as the state of the business environment in Canada
develop industry-government actions to improve the competitiveness, profitability and growth of the industry

Contact us

If you have any questions or would like more information, please email us at roundtable-tableronde@canada.ca.

Upcoming meeting

The next Roundtable meeting will take place in 2021.

Meeting summary

Executive Steering Committee Members

Co-chairs

Daniel Vielfaure – Bonduelle Americas
Annette Gibbons – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Industry

Sylvie Cloutier – Conseil de la transformation alimentaire du Québec
Irving Teper – Concord Premium Meats
Mark Pickard – InfraReady Products (1998) Limited
John Nishidate – Grand Hale Marine Products
Dominique Benoit – Agropur

Federal government

Marco Valicenti - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Sylvie Millette LeDuc – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Joann Perron – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Resource

The list of innovation organizations is a list of Canadian organizations that lists a wide variety of universities, research centres and institutes that specialize in food innovation.