Longueuil, September 21, 2018 - Agropur Cooperative today announced that it is shutting its plant in Saint-Damase, in Quebec’s Montérégie region. Major investments were needed at the plant. In view of the inability to reach a long-term agreement with the plant’s employees and the need to honour commitments to customers, Agropur had no…
Agropur is pleased that five of its cheeses were picked as the champions in their category at the World Championship Cheese Contest. In all, 3,400 cheeses from 26 countries were entered.
This project should, upon completion, increase the plant’s daily milk processing capacity from 3 million pounds to more than 9 million pounds.
For the fiscal year ended November 1, 2017, Agropur reported sales of $6.4 billion, a year-over-year increase of 7.7%. Earnings from operations rose 7.9% to $444.1 million.
Agropur Cooperative today kicked off the second edition of Inno Challenge, an international challenge to co-create innovative dairy products through crowdsourcing, in partnership with the Quartier de l’innovation and FoodBytes! by Rabobank.
