Canadian Packaging Machinery Market Research Report - PMMI

MCCAIN FOODS LIMITED
1. Company Description:
Industry: Food Products
Sub Industry: Potato products, frozen
vegetables, ready-to-serve
meals, juices, desserts
Location: Florenceville, New Brunswick
Size (sales): $C5.3 billion (2001)
Purchasing Potential: $C4-5 million over 3 years
Specific Business
Opportunities:
Robotics (palletizers)
McCain Foods is a major international food producer that has more than 18,000
employees worldwide and about 55 production facilities on six continents. It is the
largest french fry maker in the world and claims to produce nearly one-third of the
world’s french fries.
In addition to french fries and other potato products, McCain Foods (Canada)
produces frozen vegetables, juice and juice concentrates, frozen pizza and pizza
snacks, oven-ready dinners and entrees, waffles, specialty meat products and
desserts. Canadian operations employ about 3,300 people, has eleven processing
facilities and accounts for a very large proportion of the total frozen food dollar in
Canada.
The National Post Business magazine reported that McCain Foods Ltd.’s total
revenue for 2001 was $C5.3 billion. Revenue was not reported separately for
Canadian operations.
2. Main Products Produced and How They Are Packed:
Product Packaging
French Fries Form fill and seal bag; Stand up pouches
Granulated potatoes Gas flush pouches
Juice Cans and Tetrapak (tetrapaks are put in trays and
then individual trays are overwrapped
Pizza Flow wrappers and cartoned; Modifies atmosphere
packaging
Desserts Cartons
Cakes Aluminum foil tins and plastic top crimped on with
label
Frozen juices Fiber cans, metal ends, mira-strap in wrapped trays
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