Who knew that Elbows Up meant shooting yourself in the foot?
While the pickles are assembled in Green Bay, Wis., Oakland said the company buys 11 million pounds of Ontario cucumbers every year and said all the lids on the jars come from an Ontario manufacturer.
Now, the company finds itself in an awkward situation or — some might even say — a pickle.
Sales are down about 25 per cent in the last three months, according to Oakland, who said, going forward, the company will buy fewer pickles and lids from its Canadian partners.
“…who said, going forward, the company will buy fewer pickles and lids from its Canadian partners.”…
In all likelihood they will buy fewer and fewer until the number reaches zero.
Pickles up! Time for the famous Canadian cucumber eating contest. Canada might just have to lead the world in the manufacturing of traditions. That’ll be a hoot!
Puhleese.
We need the farmland to build shitty houses on for the hundreds of thousands of diverse Canadian Canadian Canadians.
Growing and exporting food is silly.
And farmers, who have no choice but to live in the REAL world, tend to be on the conservative side … so your government and their supporters don’t care about farmers. They HATE farmers. Well they won’t care until they start starving.
On a separate note: Why do you think there hasn’t been a Canadian entrepreneur and venture capitalist effort to start up a moderately sized (to start) pickle manufacturer in Canada? Obviously, the raw materials are available domestically.
This seems to be the path Canada has taken in many industries. It didn’t used to be that way. And, more importantly, it doesn’t have to continue.
“On a separate note: Why do you think there hasn’t been a Canadian entrepreneur and venture capitalist effort to start up a moderately sized (to start) pickle manufacturer in Canada?”
Bick’s Pickles. Canadian, eh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bick%27s_Pickle
The money quote:
“For 50 years, the [Bick’s pickles] plant was a large commercial operation in the Scarborough City Centre area. However, the pickling and brining operations moved to Delhi, Ontario, in 1998 and remaining production to Dunnville, Ontario, in 2001.[citation needed]
In 2004, The J.M. Smucker Company acquired Bick’s after it merged with International Multifoods. In 2010, Smuckers announced the closure of both Ontario facilities and thus brought an end to Bick’s production in Canada.[5] Since 2011, Bick’s products are imported from the United States and marketed by the company’s Markham, Ontario, based head office.[6]
The former plant at 333 Progress Avenue is now used by paperboard and recycling firm Atlantic Packaging.[7] ”
Yes that’s right, venture capitalists bought the company, closed a state-of-the-art factory in Dunville Ontario and took the entire operation south to the USA… because it was CHEAPER.
And -nobody- is going to open a new pickle factory in Ontario now because it is utterly impossible to earn a profit here. Good luck, farmers.
Yes that’s right, venture capitalists bought the company, closed a state-of-the-art factory in Dunville Ontario and took the entire operation south to the USA… because it was CHEAPER.
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The only cheaper cost was distribution due to a larger US market. BUT, that doesn’t have to be the ONLY market. Canada already has a lower distribution cost on materials. What they need is MARKETS outside of the box. Your Federal government officials are sleeping on the job. They aren’t updating their trade agreements. Technically, they aren’t doing anything. A couple months ago we were hearing how Canada would be forming a much more comprehensive trade agreement with the EU. Other markets are opening up (Argentina, for example). Japan is starting to incorporate their own domestic industries with outside parties (and trust me, pickles would sell very well in Japan).
No, the parties that should be out there establishing 21st century trade agreements are not doing anything. You’d think a banker in the “big chair” would know that.
If Treehouse Foods does not want to process food in Canada why did it buy a Canadian brand? Just to eliminate the competition?
They should sell the brand back to a Canadian processor if they don’t want to operate here.
Carney’s plan to complete the destruction of the Canadian economy is working beautifully. Elbows up.