La Coop fédérée, a Montreal-based agri-food co-operative with operations across Canada, and W-S Feed & Supplies Ltd., announced today that La Coop fédérée will purchase a 50% stake in the animal nutrition company based in Tavistock, Ont.
W-S Feeds operates two feed mills in Ontario, in Tavistock and Mount Forest. The new partnership will continue to manufacture a wide variety of feeds for dairy production, including organic, beef, swine and poultry production.
“This investment represents a strategic entry into the Ontario market, in the animal nutrition industry this time” says Ghislain Gervais, president of La Coop fédérée. “This partnership develops our portfolio of operations in the province and shows how important it is for us to provide farmers across the country with quality products and solutions for their animal feed,” he adds.
After recently gaining a foothold in the Prairie provinces for its animal feed activities with the acquisition of Standard Nutrition Canada, La Coop fédérée’s Agri-business Division keeps extending this line of business which is already well established in Quebec and the Maritimes. Earlier this year, the Agri-business Division also announced the acquisition of Cargill’s crop input and grain assets in Ontario, a transaction pending the approval of Canada’s Competition Bureau.
