Highlights 2020

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Better Dairy. Better World.

With its business model rooted in resource-sharing, Agropur is helping to create better dairy for a better world. As a socially responsible business, the Cooperative is a driver of economic and social development in many communities in North America. It also takes animal welfare seriously, strives to reduce its environmental footprint, and makes products that are recognized for their high nutritional value and meet customers’ and consumers’ expectations.

Sales

Consolidated sales continued to grow in 2020, rising to $7.7 billion, a year-over-year increase of $458.0 million or 6.3%.

Message from the President

Agropur experienced a series of exceptional events in 2020. The Cooperative demonstrated a remarkable ability to adapt. In fact, earnings improved significantly over the previous year, and even while rising to the immediate challenges, Agropur continued positioning itself for the future.

- Roger Massicotte

Message from the CEO

When I took the helm at Agropur a little over a year ago, I was given a clear mandate: to bring the Cooperative’s profitability up to potential and strengthen its balance sheet. My priority has therefore been to implement a transformation plan to set Agropur on this path.

- Émile Cordeau

Socially Responsible

Agropur has been very active on the corporate social responsibility front since the release of its CSR report in 2018. Among other things, it has set priorities in the areas of product safety, animal welfare, packaging reduction, waste and water management, and environmental protection. Here are our experts.

Sustained commitment to animal welfare

We firmly believe that happy cows produce better milk. In 2015, we adopted an Animal Welfare Statement, in order to have clear guidelines. We support our members and are part of many councils and programs, in order to constantly improve animal welfare.

Offering ever healthier products

While dairy products, with protein and essential nutrients, are already beneficial for our health, our team at Agropur is constantly working to improve them. For example, in 2020, we developed Natrel Plus, our high protein milk!

Strong community presence

During this hard year, we are pleased to have supported our community by donating the equivalent of over one million litres of milk and other dairy products. We also supported many organizations such as the Fondation Olo and the Moisson food banks network.

New environmentally responsible packaging policy

The Cooperative has made considerable efforts to reduce its environmental footprint, and its new packaging policy has led to many improvements. Agropur has reduced the use of plastic, optimized the sizes of some of its containers and shifted towards post-consumer fibre.

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