Insights and Stories on Retail

Canada’s growers look to reopening garden centres to salvage dire year

May. 8, 2020 at 2:21 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Hard-hit Canadian flower and nursery growers hope a surge in demand from budding gardeners in Ontario, the country’s biggest market, can help the industry avert disaster caused by the coronavirus with retailers reopening on Friday in the populous province. Most non-essential businesses in Canada were shut […]

U.S. grains: Wheat climbs on global demand for bread

Mar. 25, 2020 at 7:05 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Lots of flour to go around, millers’ association says

Mar. 25, 2020 at 2:53 pm CDT

By Alexis Kienlen

Beef sector mobilizes against supply disruptions

Mar. 20, 2020 at 7:53 pm CDT

By Alexis Kienlen

Canopy Growth to shut two B.C. greenhouses, cut 500 jobs

Mar. 4, 2020 at 7:49 pm CST

By Reuters

Atlantic Farm Services takes sister firm’s new name

Dec. 4, 2019 at 9:16 pm CST

Corrected, Dec. 6, 2019 — The former ag retail distribution and feed milling businesses of Co-op Atlantic are set to take the new name of their sister company. Sollio Agriculture, the agribusiness arm of Quebec-based La Coop federee, announced Monday its Atlantic Farm Services business is officially rebranding with the […]

By GFM Staff

Major veal processor launches new brand, non-GMO label

Sep. 30, 2019 at 1:56 pm CDT

Quebec veal, lamb and beef processor Delimax-Montpak is set to launch a new consumer brand across Canada featuring what it bills as the only GMO-free milk-fed veal on the market. The company said Tuesday it expected to have the new brand — Fontaine Family, named for the company’s founding family […]

By Dave Bedard

Ontario’s slow rollout of weed outlets could help black market

Jul. 9, 2019 at 2:04 am CDT

Toronto | Reuters — Ontario has blamed a shortage of legal cannabis from the federal government for its slow rollout of retail outlets, a claim dismissed by the federal government and regulatory bodies from other provinces, raising prospects the black market for weed may thrive longer in Canada’s most populous […]

By Moira Warburton

Alberta input retail chain expands westward reach

Mar. 10, 2019 at 12:27 am CST

A pair of independent crop input retail outlets in west-central Alberta will be networking with seven others by month-end. Crop Management Network (CMN), a joint venture between an employee-owned network of retail outlets and La Coop federee’s Agrico Canada arm, announced Wednesday it has reached a deal to buy Performance […]

By GFM Staff

Richardson buys Peace-region input retailer

Feb. 21, 2019 at 3:09 pm CST

Grain handler Richardson Pioneer has moved to shore up its presence in northern Alberta’s crop input market with a deal for a Peace-region dealership. Winnipeg-based Richardson announced Wednesday it has bought Agland Seed and Chemical at La Crete, Alta., about 320 km north of Peace River. The deal, which closed […]

By GFM Staff

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