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Canadian Packaging Machinery Market Research Report - PMMI

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KRAFT CANADA INC.<br />

Industry: Food Products<br />

Sub Industry: Multiple categories<br />

Location: Don Mills, Ontario<br />

Size (sales): $C2.1 billion (2001)<br />

Purchasing Potential: Not provided<br />

Specific Business<br />

Opportunities:<br />

Constantly upgrading and<br />

adding to packaging machinery<br />

Note: <strong>Machinery</strong> information covers Kraft Mount Royal plant (largest Kraft plant in Canada<br />

with 1200 employees), while attitudinal/subjective responses cover all of Kraft Canada.<br />

1. Company Description:<br />

Kraft Canada is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kraft Foods Inc. The company<br />

operates in forty food categories with 45 major brand names. Some of the leading<br />

brands include Kraft cheese, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Miracle Whip salad<br />

dressing, Post cereals, Maxwell House coffee, Kool-Aid beverages, Jell-O desserts,<br />

Christie cookies, Nabisco cookies, Peak Frean cookies, Del Monte canned fruits and<br />

vegetables and Milk-Bone pet snacks.<br />

Kraft Canada operates twenty plants and bakeries in Canada and employs 7100.<br />

The Globe and Mail’s <strong>Report</strong> on Business magazine reported that Kraft Canada’s<br />

sales in Canada were $C2.1 billion in 2001.<br />

2. Main Products Produced and How They Are Packed:<br />

Product <strong>Packaging</strong><br />

Pasta/Kraft Dinner Cardboard carton<br />

Peanut Butter Plastic jar<br />

Liquid Salad Dressing Plastic bottle<br />

Viscous Salad Dressing (e.g. mayonnaise) Glass jar<br />

Processed Cheese Plastic film<br />

Cream Cheese Foil wrap with cardboard over carton and<br />

plastic tub<br />

Jams and Jellies Glass jar<br />

Note: most products also packed in bulk for food service<br />

3. Installed <strong>Packaging</strong> <strong>Machinery</strong>:<br />

Current <strong>Machinery</strong> Used<br />

by Category<br />

Brand Country of Origin<br />

Robotic Palletizers ABB Sweden<br />

Conventional Palletizers Priority One Canada<br />

Columbia<br />

USA<br />

Depalletizers Priority One Canada<br />

Case Packers Blue Print<br />

USA<br />

Brenton<br />

USA<br />

Douglas<br />

USA<br />

SMG/Columbia Consulting Group Page 81

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