Canadian Packaging Machinery Market Research Report - PMMI

HUMPTY DUMPTY SNACK FOODS INC.
Industry: Food products
Sub Industry: Snack Foods
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Size (sales): $C173 million (2002)
Purchasing Potential: Not provided
Specific Business
Opportunities:
1. Company Description:
Automation, automatic case
packing, bar coding and anything
that lightens work.
Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes potato
chips and other salty snacks under the Humpty Dumpty brand name in eastern
Canada and the northeastern United States. The company also supplies a full line of
private label snack food products to leading retail chains in Canada and the United
States.
Humpty Dumpty operates four modern manufacturing facilities in Ontario, Quebec,
New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Total manufacturing space exceeds
580,000 square feet. The company employs 1,000 people and attained sales of
$C173 million in 2002.
2. Main Products Produced and How They Are Packed:
Product Packaging
Potato Chips
Corn Chips
Tortilla Chips
Vertical form filled flexible packaging
Light Puffed Extruded Products
Light Bit and Hard Bit Extruded Products
Pretzels
3. Installed Packaging Machinery:
Current Machinery Used
Brand No. of Country of Origin
by Category
Units
Vertical form, fill and seal machines Hayssens 68
Scales Yumai Ishida
Robag T & N 1 Australia
4. Future Packaging Machinery Plans (next 3 years):
The company is looking for acquisitions but the plans are confidential.
SMG/Columbia Consulting Group Page 72