Premium Brands Holdings Corporation is a Canadian specialty food manufacturing and distribution company. It is a publicly traded corporation on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| TSX: PBH S&P/TSX Composite Component | |
| Industry | Food Manufacturing and Distribution,[1] Food service[1] |
| Founded | Richmond, British Columbia, Canada |
| Headquarters | Richmond, British Columbia, Canada |
Key people | George Paleologou, President and Chief Executive Officer Will Kalutycz, Chief Financial Officer |
| Products | Foods |
| Revenue |  $4.931 billion CAN (2021) |
Number of employees | c.15,000 |
| Website | www |
History
editPremium Brands was founded in 1917 as Fletcher Limited.[2] It was renamed Fletcher Fine Foods in 1984.[2] In 2000, the company re-branded to Premium Brands.[3] The company sold its Fletcher's business in 2004.[3] In 2005, it converted to an income trust, but it converted back to a normal corporation in 2009, through a complex deal with Thallion Pharmaceuticals.[4] In its time as an income trust, the company had doubled revenues to $450 million.[4] In 2010, Premium Brands acquired SK Food Group, a Seattle-based supplier of breakfast sandwiches and wraps to Starbucks, for $42.5 million.[5] Partly as a result of increased sales of these products, Premium Brands' overall sales more than doubled in the 5 years from 2010 to 2015, to $1.2 billion.[6] The company's sandwich sales increased from $156.8 million to $460 million in 2016.[7] In 2016, the company purchased meat company C&C Packing for up to $146 million.[8]
In April 2018, Premium Brands acquired Oberto Sausage Company.[9]
On November 9, 2020, Premium Brands acquired Clearwater Seafoods for $1 billion in partnership with a group of Miꞌkmaq First Nations. The purchase represented the "largest investment in the seafood industry by a Canadian Indigenous group".[10]
Profile
editPremium Brands owns a range of specialty food manufacturing and differentiated food distribution businesses with operations in Canada and the United States. As of 2017, approximately 60% of revenue was from food distribution, and 40% was from food manufacturing.[2] Significant products include sandwiches (25% of revenue), processed meats (20% of revenue), beef (14% of revenue), and seafood (10% of revenue).[2]
The company estimates it has about 50% of the packaged sandwich market in Canada, and 5-10% of the American market.[6] It has sandwich manufacturing facilities in Columbus, Ohio, and Reno, Nevada, as well as two plants in Canada.[6]
The Company's brands and businesses include Audrey's, B&C Foods, Belmont Meats, Bread Garden GO, Buddy's Kitchen, C&C Packing, Centennial Foodservice, Concord Premium Meats, Conte Foods, Country Prime Meats, Creekside Bakehouse, Diana's Seafood, Deli Chef, Duso's, Fletcher's US, Freybe, Frandon Seafood, Gloria’s Best of Fresh, Gourmet Chef, Expresco, Grimm’s, Harlan’s, Harvest, Ready Seafood, Hempler’s, Multi-Task Cold Storage Inc, Hub City Fisheries, Hygaard, Interprovincial Meat Sales, Isernio's, Island City Baking, Larosa Fine Foods, Leadbetters, McSweeney’s, Maximum Seafood, Oberto Brands, Ocean Miracle, OvenPride, Partners, Piller's, Premier Meat Packers, Quality Fast Foods, Raybern's, Shahir, Shaw Bakers, Skilcor Food Products, Stuyver's Bakestudio, SK Food Group, The Meat Factory, Westcadia and Yorkshire Valley Farms.[citation needed]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "About Us." Premium Brands (official website). Accessed August 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Premium Brands Holdings AIF 2007" (PDF).
- ^ a b Communications, Farm Business. "Fletcher's brand returns to Premium Brands - AGCanada". AGCanada. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
{{cite news}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ a b "Premium Brands giving up trust structure | The Star". The Toronto Star. 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Starbucks supplier SK Food Group acquired". Puget Sound Business Journal. 2010-10-19.
- ^ a b c "This Canadian food company is growing like crazy because of Starbucks grab-and-go breakfast sandwiches". Financial Post. 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "The Canadian secret behind the sandwiches at Starbucks". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Premium Brands buying Montreal meat firm C&C Packing for up to $146M". CTVNews. 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ Century-old Seattle-area snack maker Oberto sold to Canadian conglomerate Accessed April 13, 2018
- ^ Morin, Brandi (31 December 2020). "Twenty Indigenous stories that shaped 2020 — a year of racism and fear, of fighting and hope". The Star. Retrieved 31 December 2020.