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Cargill announces partnerships with Canadian food distributors
Extensive network will cover diverse and vast market
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA – Cargill has finalized agreements with three of Canada’s leading food distributors – L.V. Lomas Limited, Nealanders International Inc. and Univar Canada – to supply products manufactured by Cargill Texturizing Solutions and Cargill Sweetness Solutions.
“We believe that we can better serve Canada’s diverse and geographically vast food industry by partnering with strong, nationally-focused distributors,” said Mark Brewster, senior account manager for Cargill Limited in Canada. “These distributors have their own unique sets of food ingredient expertise and value-added services to provide customer solutions and innovations for all types and sizes of food manufacturing companies in Canada.”
L.V. Lomas has four locations in Canada and will be responsible for Cargill starches, specialty texturizing blends, maltodextrins, dextrins, glucose solids, polyols, trehalose, isomaltulose and sucromalt.
Headquartered in Toronto, with additional locations in Montreal and Vancouver, Nealanders International Inc. will distribute Cargill soy flour, textured soy, flavored textured soy, soy lecithin and sunflower lecithin.
Univar Canada, based in Vancouver, has 20 locations across Canada coast to coast. The company will distribute Cargill xanthan gum, pectin, carrageenan, alginates and specialty texturing blends.
For more information, Canadian food companies can visit the distributors’ Web sites: www.lvlomas.com, www.nealanders.com, and www.univarcanada.com, or contact Mark Brewster at 416-523-6939 or mark_brewster@cargill.com.
Headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Cargill Limited employs over 10,000 people across the country and has business interests in meat, egg and oilseed processing, animal feed, salt, chocolate, natural gas, crop inputs, as well as grain handling and merchandising.
Cargill is an international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. With 149,000 employees in 63 countries, the company is committed to using its knowledge and experience to collaborate with customers to help them succeed. For more information visit www.cargilltexturizing.com.