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HOME OF MANITOBA’S AGRI-FOOD SECTOR

ood manufacturing is a leading employer in
FPortage la Prairie. Recent investment indicates
that this number is growing. Among the food
production staged locally includes:

Can-Oat Milling (Richardson-Pioneer) Simplot

Portage la Prairie is home to one of three Located just west of the City on the Trans-Canada
strategically placed Richardson Milling sites in Highway, Simplot’s Portage la Prairie facility
western Canada and boasts the most extensive ships more than 300 Million pounds of frozen
oat supply in North America. Their production french fries and specialty potato products each
includes granola clusters, toasted coated grains, year to vendors across the continent. Simplot
oat bran, whole oat flour, and more. has made its home here since 2003 and serves
the restaurant industry across Canada and many
McCain regions of the United States. Locally, Simplot
With an international presence, employing more employs 260.
than 20,000 globally and generating in excess
of $9 Million annually in sales, McCain has been Roquette
a fixture of Portage la Prairie since 1980. The local Announced in January 2017, construction has
plant produces french fries – a staple of McCain’s begun on the $400 Million Phase One of a five
product line. In fact, the company produces so phase pea protein processing facility – slated
many fries per year that it is estimated than one to be the largest of its kind in the world. The plant
in three fries in the world are produced under the will create 150 ongoing positions upon the start
McCain brand. The local plant employs 350. of production in the Spring of 2019 when it will
PORTAGE L A PR AIRIE, MANITOBA , CANADA Nutri-Pea has been promoting the benefits of Other Food Production Locally:
begin processing 125 thousand tonnes of
Nutri-Pea Limited
yellow peas per year.

yellow peas as an ingredient in a wide variety
of health food products since it opened in Portage
• Best Cooking Pulses
la Prairie in 1997. Their products are exported not
• Better Hemp Company
only to the United States but also to Brazil and
• Canadian Prairie Garden Purees
Mexico. Operating with a local team of 30, the
• Prairie Quinoa
reach of their business spans internationally.

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