Maple Leaf Foods Executive Summary

Ottawa Valley Food Products (OVFP) is a company which manufactures and distributes low calorie and diet food items. The employees at OVFP consist of 100 production workers and 18 management and support staff. R J Jennings is amongst these individuals and has worked for OVFP for 31 years. Even though he is able to retire, Jennings does not wish to do so any time in the near future.

Prairie Foods’ “Complete Blueberry Pomegranate” cereal packaging violates California’s “false or misleading” advertising ban, so Prairie Foods’ motion to dismiss Sabach v. Prairie Foods, Inc. (S.D. Cal. 2016) should be denied.

While we anticipate Loblaw to continue to maintain its dominant position among Canadian national grocers, we cannot ignore the fact that other international food retailers are entering Canadian market. There have been talks of two major German discounters Aldi and Lidl entering Canadian market. They have completely disrupted the traditional grocery industry, leading to price deflation and struggles for retailers

In Aug 2012, a Toronto Maple Leaf Foods (“the Company”) plant was confirmed as being involved in the outbreak of the food-borne illness, caused by the bacterium Listeria. A day later, Maple Leaf upgraded a precautionary recall of 23 of its products in previous week to all 220 packaged meats from the plant at the Bartor’s Road, which has been shut down. The company has estimated the recall will directly cost it at least $20 million, with further costs expected due to lost sales and reputation damage. Since the outbreak of Listeria bacterium, 22 people died and there were 57 total confirmed cases of illness caused by Listeria 1. Although the Listeria outbreak was described by the Company’s CEO as “the

In the short story “Star Food” by Ethan Canin, a young adult named Dade disappoints both of his parents for the first time when he lets a woman steal from the family store. Dade’s parents have always been opposites, and they have always had conflicting plans for Dade. Dade has constantly had to choose between the two, usually pleasing one and disappointing the other in the process. Therefore, when the woman steals and Dade catches her, Dade has to once again choose between his parents expectations. Dade decides to let the woman go to symbolize him essentially choosing his mom in the end over his dad.

Loblaw Companies is one of the largest food retailers in Canada, owning well maintained brands such as NoFrills, Real Canadian Superstore, and Shoppers Drug Mart. With its focus of fresh produce, real Canadian pork, and low prices on other instore food products, Loblaw’s had created well-established branding for themselves in the local communities. However, in the past few years, Loblaw’s Companies have faced an ever-growing competitive market, with other retail competitors such as Walmart, Costco, and Drugstores expanding in the food retail industry. It is sourced

Maple Leaf Foods (MLF), a result of many mergers and amalgamations, has been in Canada for over 100 years. Its operations focus on three core areas: meat products, agribusiness and bakery products. The meat product group is the largest, with sales to about $2.5 billion in 2000. Each business is made up of independent operating companies (IOCs), with each IOC run by a president and encouraged to follow a common set of values. Efforts are underway to optimize vertical coordination of the IOCs. A major concern for the meat product division is the loss of market share in the hot dog industry where average price per kilo is increasing

which are presented in Cases 12I and 13I. In addition, the case focuses on quantifying the

Since the update of Canada’s Food Guide in 2007, many people, including experts such as doctors and dietitians, have criticized Health Canada and the government for the way they have presented Canadians with nutrition information and advice. Some have said that the portion sizes are incorrect, some say that the information on fats and oils can be misleading, scaring people into thinking that all fats are bad, some experts have even gone as far as to say that the information Health Canada has provided Canadians is not based on current scientific principles as the subject of food and nutrition is constantly evolving and changing every year. Though some criticisms and suggestions people are making with regards to Canada’s Food Guide sound a little

Environmental factors effecting Fraser Foods is their current carbon footprint. They are aware of their current carbon footprint and are trying to minimise this by using as little non-renewable packaging as possible and increasing the amount of recyclable packaging on their products.

In today’s society there is a variety of foods consumed. Some of which are vital to the human body and some are eaten for the taste. As a result, food guides are able to inform the public which foods to eat and how much of the food should be consumed. It also tells information based on health and how to prevent certain diseases. Different countries have altered food guides. This may be due to the foods available abundantly in a country that provide nutrients and other essential components needed. Moreover, some food guides have a lot of information and others are very simple and may use images to portray messages. Three food guides I chose to examine are the food guides of Greece, Australia and Japan. I will be highlighting the similarities/differences

Introduction: This case study investigates Maple Leaf Foods' (MLF), a highly successful diversified corporation, proactive approach to the implementation of the rigorous, culture penetrating and comprehensive measurement-based philosophy, Six Sigma. In fact, MLFs' change champions and "dynamic duo", Michael McCain, president and chief executive officer (CEO), and Bruce Miyashita, vice-president (VP) Six Sigma, unequivocal support, confidence, vision, and expertise in this process improvement and variation reduction strategy ignited the essential motivation and stakeholder loyalty that was paramount to the receptivity/achievement of their "well-thought out" conversion and

From time to time, corporate executives encounter ethical dilemmas that seem rather challenging. In this text, I concern myself with an ethical dilemma faced by the top leadership of Nutritional Foods Inc. In so doing, I will amongst other things explain (in detail) the actions I would take were I to find myself in a similar scenario. I will also explain not only the reasoning behind my actions, but also the results I would be expecting.

Gordon Food Services, known as GFS Canada distributes fresh foods, canned and dry foods, fresh and frozen meats, seafood and poultry, special orders, equipment supplies and cleaning chemicals across all provinces of Canada. GFS Canada is one of the largest foodservice distributors in Canada.

Prior to the arrival of David Homer, General Mills Canada had been a successful subsidiary of the General Mills brand. Although employees at General Mills Canada have generated positive sales growth every year before his tenure, Homer notices a lack of initiative, drive, and desire to embrace fundamental changes by his employees, a sign of progress hindered by risk aversion. He notices that data is pouring into the company and employees are using this data to analyze potential opportunities for growth, yet they are reluctant to take any actions. Thus, his ultimate challenge is to integrate innovative thinking into the General Mills Canada culture, and determine what “processes and tools” to use to achieve this goal, since employees are