Food & Beverage
Ontario’s craft brewers pan Doug Ford’s buck a beer plan
Can’t afford to lower the price without sacrificing product quality.
Molson enters into joint venture to develop cannabis infused beverages
Venture with The Hydropothecary Corporation will be a standalone start-up with its own board and management team.
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Tim Hortons parent company poses rise in profits following franchisee strife
RBI experienced 87% rise in profits during its second quarter, ended June 30.
PEI potato shortage blamed as Cavendish Farms closes packaging plant
Shortfall of 68 million kilograms in 2017; bought from new sources on the island as well as from producers in other provinces.
Ammonia leak at Wisconsin food plant sends workers to hospitals
15 people taken to hospital.
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Global whisky industry leaders unite to denounce tariffs
Nine global distilled spirits organizations issue a resolution urging the “prompt removal” of recent tariffs.
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US announces billions to help farmers hurt by Trump tariffs
The program is expected to start taking effect around Labor Day.
Canada’s wholesale sales rise 1.2% in May: Statistics Canada
Construction materials show strength, automotive and supplies fall.
Saputo sells Australian dairy operations for $244M
Condition set by Australia’s regulators for Saputo’s $1.3 billion takeover of the Murray Goulburn Co-operative.
B.C. signs agreements with licensed producers to supply legal marijuana
Micro-cultivators say they were shut out of the bidding process in favour large producers.
McDonald’s Canada to start buying ‘sustainable’ beef
Under rules outlined by the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, animal welfare and grassland management need to be observed.
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Tim Hortons signs franchise agreement with Cartesian Capital to expand to China
Young people and white-collar workers in China increasingly drink coffee. Tims will open 1,500 stores in the country.
Quebec liquor store workers turn wine labels around as pressure tactic
Expressing frustration over protracted contract negotiations, workers at the Quebec Liquor Corp. are obscuring wine and liquor bottle labels and price stickers as a protest.
At least 60 per cent of NS blueberry crop wiped out by killer frost: producers
Government disaster relief cheques won’t be distributed until after provincial authorities have completed damage assessments, leaving growers in the lurch this year.
Starbucks, citing ocean threat, is ditching plastic straws from all locations
The coffee chain will make a strawless lid or straws made from alternative materials, like paper or compostable plastic, available at its more than 28,000 stores worldwide by 2020.
