5. INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION
• Sector –consumer
goods
• Classification : Food
Products Industries,
Meat products, Bread
and other Bakery
Products, Feed
Industry.
6. Continuation…..
• Canada's largest beef
slaughterer.
• Producing well known
brands such as Squirrel
peanut butter and Black
Diamond cheese.
• Its main business was
pork.other products are
8. MAPLE LEAF MEAT PLANT
• Primarily markets in Canada.
• Product lines are fresh pork,
to serve meals, ready to
cook meal, packaged meat.
• Sales $ 792.3 billion.
• Operating earnings $15
million.
9. MAPLE LEAF AGRIBUSINESS
• Agribusiness operations
include hog production,
rendering and biodiesel.
• They are producing
biodiesel for domestic
and international uses.
• Vertical integration
strategy of poultry and
pork
• In Agri business their
income is $4 million.
10. MAPLE LEAF BAKERY PRODUCTS
• Maple leaf foods
international opened
company’s first bakery in
united kingdom in1998.
• The bakery products group
now has annualized sales
of over $ 1 million and
manufacturing facilities in
Canada , united states and
the united kingdom.
• Future bakery plants are in
Roanoke and Virginia.
12. PRODUCTION PROCESS
MEAT
• Primal Cut : The first stage of
processing a pork carcass
resulting in six primal, or
commodity cuts.
• Primary Processing :
Processing that includes kill,
cut and value-added fresh
meat operations.
BAKERY ITEMS (BREAD)
• Primary Processing :
Processing that includes kill,
cut and value-added fresh
meat operations
13. PACKING OF PRODUCTS
• Modified Atmosphere
Packaging : A technique used
to prolong the shelf-life period
of fresh or minimally
processed foods, whereby the
air surrounding the food in the
package is converted to
another composition so that
the natural deterioration of
perishable products like meat,
fish, fruits and vegetables is
slowed.
14. Continuation ….
• Par-Bake : Frozen bakery
products that are
manufactured and baked
to within ~90%
completion and shipped
to customers who
complete the baking
process on-site to deliver
fresh, customized hot
baked products to
consumers.
15. FOOD SAFETY PROGRAMME
• 40 Steps to Food Safety : Maple
Leaf’s proprietary 40 Steps to
Food Safety program is employed
across the Company’s meat
processing operations to attain
the highest operational standards
for food safety excellence. It
encompasses all areas that touch
on food safety, from the purchase
of raw materials to processing,
packaging and distribution. The
program is audited annually by an
independent third party, to
monitor and ensure continuous
improvement.
16. Practice of six sigma
@
“ Maple Leaf Foods’ vehicle for
bringing its Leadership Edge
Values to life, including rigor,
customer focus, fact-based
decision making, and openness to
continuous improvement. It
encompasses all aspects and
functions of the business through
a common philosophy,
methodologies, and broad set of
tools that include change
management, creative problem
solving and project management”
