Canadian Packaging Machinery Market Research Report - PMMI

E. D. SMITH & SONS
Industry: Food Products
Sub Industry: Sauces, jams, condiments
Location: Winona, Ontario
Size (sales): $C145 million (2001)
Purchasing Potential: Not provided
Specific Business
Opportunities:
1. Company Description:
Palletizer, sleever and
shrink tunnel.
E.D. Smith & Sons is a privately owned, Canadian company that has been in
business since 1882 and has been owned by Imperial Capital since January 2002.
All processing, packaging, sales, R&D, etc, is operated from its single, original
location in Winona, Ontario. The company employs 385 staff and has been selected
as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Private Companies. E.D. Smith produces a
variety of quality items including jams, jellies, syrups, pie fillings, toppings, ketchup,
pasta and barbecue sauces, salsas and a variety of foodservice products and private
label brands. Food in Canada magazine estimated E. D. Smith’s 2001 sales to be
$C145 million.
2. Main Products Produced and How They Are Packed:
Product Packaging
Jam, jelly, ketchup, pasta sauce,
pizza sauces
3. Installed Packaging Machinery:
Current Machinery Used
By Category
Vertical Form Fill and Seal
Machines
Ketchup in plastic and glass bottles. Jam, jellies,
spreads in glass jars with metal caps. Pasta sauces in
plastic and glass wit metal and plastic caps. Flexible
pouches for pizza sauce, pasta sauce, donut fillings,
and specialty sauces. 100oz cans for ketchup.
Brand No. of
Units
Cryovac 1
Country of Origin Average
Age
United States 10
Bag In Box Filler LiquiBox 1 United States 7
Plastic and Glass Bottle Fillers U.S. Bottlers
Pfaudler
Elmar
Labelers Krones
Jagenberg
Langguth
SMG/Columbia Consulting Group Page 55
2
1
2
2
2
3
United States
United States
United States
Germany
Germany
Germany
Packers Hartness 4 United States 6
Bottle Cleaners Bevco 4 Canada 4
Bottle Unscrambler Posimat 1 Spain 2
Palletizers Currie
Mathews
2
2
United States
Canada
5
13
11
6
12
12
12
12