Friday, September 15, 2017

Conestoga Packers rakes in another subsidy

Conestoga Meat Packers is getting more money from the provincial government to purchase equipment it hopes will boost pork processing capacity by 86 per cent and add 170 employees.

The funding could go as high as $5.3 million and is only one of many loans and grants the business has garnered from federal and provincial governments over the last decade.


Conestoga Meat Packers is, after Quality Packer folded, now Ontario's second-largest pork processor and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Progressive Pork Producers Co-operative Inc. owned by 157 hog producers farming in Southwestern Ontario.