food
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NB retiree’s border beer battle could change Confederation
Watch for a Supreme Court of Canada’s key ruling on buying booze and interprovincial trade.
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Nestlé aiming at 100% recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025
Will focus on eliminating non-recyclable plastics and use of plastics with better recycling rates.
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Why Canada’s craft beer explosion isn’t leading to big acquisitions
No longer any medium-sized breweries that produce between 50,000 and 75,000 hectolitres of beer.
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Stella Artois recalls some bottled beer sold in Canada, US as precaution
Flaw that may cause a small piece of glass to break off and possibly fall into the beer.
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Nothing sweet about sales of grey market candy in Mars Canada case
Appeal court upholds lower court’s hefty costs award against owner his Toronto companies for “brazenly” breaching earlier settlements.
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Court challenge coming from BC Wine Institute against Alberta wine ban
Alberta takes in 20% of all bottles produced in BC, making it the province’s biggest customer.
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Bonduelle Group acquiring Del Monte business in Canada from Conagra
Will complement Bonduelle’s canned and frozen vegetables largely sold under retailer’s store brands.
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Campbell Soup shuttering 87 year old Toronto facility, 380 jobs to be impacted
Not competitively viable thanks to excess North American capacity, size and age of the plant.
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Beer Canada calls on feds to axe rising beer tax as consumption trends down
Says future increases tied to inflation will only exacerbate the challenges the industry is facing.
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The most irrational, damaging or downright dumb beliefs of 2017
A look back at 2017 shows far too many instances in Canada where we got it all wrong.
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Loblaw parent company alerted competition watchdog to bread price fixing
Employees responsible for Weston Bakeries and Loblaw’s role are no longer employed by the companies.
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Canadians want to be freed from provincial alcohol monopolies: poll
89% of respondents say Canadians should be able to bring any legal product from one province to another.
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Saputo to close Wisconsin cheese plant next May, affecting 126 workers
Closure will improve operating efficiency; integrating production into a new blue cheese plant near Minneapolis.
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The puzzling probe into Canada’s alleged bread cartel
Competition Bureau investigation could potentially restore peace within the food industry family.
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Moosehead wages trademark battle with Vermont pub
Brewer says Hop’n Moose using its trademarks on canned beer, promotional materials and related consumer products.
