Canadian Food Business
From farmers and grocers, to breweries, bakeries and meal prep companies, everyone is getting on the innovation bandwagon.
Read More »Three Pandemic Trends That Are Here to Stay
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Facing the Facts: Food Insecurity in the Spotlight
14.6 percent of Canadians live in a household where food insecurity has been a problem in the past 30 days, an increase from 10.5 percent two years ago.
Read More »COVID-19 hits the Canadian food industry
The larger question of just how much society will have changed from this global pandemic remains unanswerable.
Read More »All About Halal
Many mainstream products are passed over by Muslim consumers because they have no way of knowing if they are halal.
Read More »Blockchain offers critical links to food security
Blockchain is entering the mainstream among food suppliers looking to avert a contamination crisis.
Read More »The ‘secret sauce’ of edible cannabis in Canada
By Carol T Culhane, PHEc, MBA; President, International Food Focus Ltd. If all goes according to plan, by October 17, Canada will have federal regulations which enable the sale of edible cannabis products.The federal government’s steadfast adherence to its roll-out of legalized cannabis in many forms illustrates its commitment to the three-pronged aim of this new legislation, which are to: …
Read More »Female ‘foodpreneurs’ are making their mark
From the kitchen to the corner office, Canadian female “foodpreneurs” are commanding their share of the economic pie.
Read More »Two Canadian food icons rebrand to give consumers what they want, when they want it
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. and Schneiders have rebranded their products in answer to what consumers want and when they want it. “We’ve got a unique opportunity to drive category growth across our entire prepared meats portfolio,” says Adam Grogan, Senior Vice-president, Marketing and Innovation for both companies. The change follows extensive research on consumer behaviour and demand. It is …
Read More »To read or not to read
Evaluating the Importance of Food Labels By Kathy Perrotta With the Canadian government currently in the process of seeking feedback on new regulations for front-of-package nutrition symbols that would alert consumers to foods that are high in sodium, sugars or saturated fat, a review of current label evaluation behaviour reveals that there already is a whole lot of label reading going …
Read More »Setting the table for a homegrown value-added food sector
As foreign food processors pull out of Canada, taking jobs with them, it’s essential to the economy that we fill the gap By Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies The bloodbath in foreign-owned, large-scale food manufacturing in Canada continues. Canadian value-added food producers need to fill the gap. In the past few days, we’ve learned that two …
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