Small to medium-sized businesses are becoming the backbone of the Canadian grocery sector. For the 52-week period ending September 14th, 2019, sales growth for the Top 101 brands was 2.1% as compared to 1.3% for the Top 20. Over this same period, smaller manufacturers’ dollar market share of the grocery sector was 25.9%. [1] The […]
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Food Distribution Guy President, Richard Baker was recently interviewed on That Channel with Hugh Reilly and Ian Graham to Discuss Changing Consumer Shopping Behaviours During COVID-19.
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Welcome to our inaugural video podcast series. I am pleased to be joined by our latest client, Mr. VJ Bala, President, HeyJute to discuss the introduction of their line of plant-based, compostable tableware. HeyJute® is an Innovative Canadian brand that offers Environmentally Conscious, Packaging, Promotional Branding, and Geo-textile solutions in a market otherwise saturated by […]
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COVID-19 is a pandemic for the ages. It is one most of us have never experienced and every day I pray we will never experience again. Many have compared this pandemic to the Great Depression. For Quarter 1, 2020, Canada’s economy contracted at an annualized pace of 8.2%. [i] When the Canadian economy will rebound […]
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Small to medium-sized businesses are the backbone of the Canadian economy. They contribute approximately 38.4% of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP).[i] This is especially true in the Canadian grocery sector. For the 52-week period ending September 2019, the top 101+ brand’s growth contribution was 26.5% vs. 18.6% for the Top 20 brands. Overall, private label and […]
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