Chapter 4: Processing and Further Processing

• 4.1 Processing
  
  • 4.1.1 Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors Council (CPEPC)
  • 4.1.2 Chicken processing companies
  • 4.1.3 Poultry co-operatives
    
• 4.2 Further Processing
  
  • 4.2.1 Further Poultry Processors Association of Canada (FPPAC)
  • 4.2.2 Further Processing Plants
    

4.1 Processing

4.1.1 Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors Council (CPEPC)

The CPEPC is the national association serving hatcheries, chicken and turkey processing plants, egg grading stations and processed egg plants in Canada. The Council’s mandate is to identify and represent the collective goals and interests of the processing industry, develop appropriate action plans, and conduct activities that will best achieve those goals.

The CPEPC has a further poultry processing subsector that represents chicken and turkey further processing plants across Canada. This group has reported over $300 million in plant and equipment investment, and employs more than 3,500 people. It is supplied by primary processors, and transforms raw chicken meat into a variety of innovative foods for the retail and food services markets.

4.1.2 Chicken processing companies

The five largest firms in the chicken sector are, in order: la Coopérative fédérée de Québec (three plants in Quebec), Lilydale Poultry Co-operative (one plant in British Columbia, three in Alberta and one in Saskatchewan), Maple Leaf Poultry (two plants in Ontario, one in Alberta and one in Nova Scotia), Exceldor (two plants in Quebec) and Maple Lodge Farms (one plant in Ontario). These five firms process 55% of the chickens slaughtered in Canada.

¹-Including Alberta's 68 Hutterite plants
²-One Ontario plant is both federally and provincially registered

Source: CFIA / Data compiled by the AAFC Poultry Section

4.1.3 Poultry co-operatives¹

According to the most recent data available from the Co-operatives Secretariat, there were five poultry co-operatives among Canada’s 50 largest non-financial co-operatives in 2003.²

• La Coopérative fédérée de Québec (Quebec) ranked second, with revenues of $2,753,753,000.
• Lilydale Co-operative Ltd (Alberta) ranked eighth, with revenues of $508,681,100.
• Exceldor coopérative avicole (Quebec) ranked 14^th, with revenues of $230,270,820.
• A.C.A. Co-operative Limited (Nova Scotia) ranked 27^th, with revenues of $98,028,000.
• Granny’s Poultry Co-operative (Manitoba) ranked 30^th, with revenues of $94,983,550.

4.2 Further Processing

4.2.1 Further Poultry Processors Association of Canada (FPPAC)

http://www3.sympatico.ca/fppac

The FPPAC is a trade association that provides manufacturers of value-added poultry products with an opportunity to share visions and concerns. The association was founded by three independent further processors in August 1985. The common cause that brought members together then was the concern about adequate supplies of raw material, and this today remains a key issue. Members are engaged in adding value to chicken, turkey, and fowl meat by way of sizing, marinating, breading, cooking, forming and adding other ingredients to make ready-to-eat or cooked products and meals.

Currently, the association is made up of 38 active further processors (and nine associate/supplier members), most of them based in Ontario, where over half of Canada's further processing capacity is located. FPPAC members account for sales of about $1 billion in both retail and food service products and employ over 3,100 full-time workers.³

4.2.2 Further Processing Plants

As of September 2003, there were 374 federally registered further processing plants for poultry meat in Canada. These plants are engaged in canning, boning and cutting, and similar operations. It should be noted that some further processing plants also engage in primary processing operations. As well, a large number engage in more than one type of further processing operation.

1. It should be noted that the sales figures given here do not correspond to the income the co-operatives derive from their poultry operations alone.
2. http://coop.gc.ca/index_e.php?s1=pub&page=intro
3. The information in this section was taken from the FPPAC website.

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