No matter how hard we Canadians strive for balance in our lives, many of us are still tired.

In my previous articles you’ve heard one person’s view of what it would take for the Canadian food industry to be globally competitive and financially viable in the long term. We talked about the need to listen to the markets and respond to what they need, and about the need to improve our capabilities in the areas of innovation, productivity and sustainability.

Are your DC costs on par with those of your peers? MM&D’s DC cost benchmarking study offers a look at what Canadian companies spend and how.

At one time, ensuring children ate healthily simply meant serving them a balanced diet of home-cooked meals from the four food groups – not too difficult when one parent was at home to do the grocery shopping and cook nutritious meals daily, but often impossible considering the busy schedules of most families today. Instead, parents are now looking to food manufacturers to provide them with meal options that are nutritious, tasty and convenient – and often portable – and that offer good value for the money and in many cases, something the whole family can enjoy. Luckily, producers are answering the call with an increasing number of different options, including products fortified with natural ingredients, specialty products such as gluten-free foods, as well as healthier versions of traditional kid-friendly favourites.

If sometimes it seems the world is turning upside down—it is, as the Auckland, New Zealand-based Reynolds Group Holdings Limited makes another massive business purchase. Graham Packaging Company Inc

Razor-thin profit margins are nothing new in the notoriously competitive label industry, but some companies manage to deal with them better than others by consistently offering excellent pricing, high-quality labels and the latest, cutting-edge printing technologies. Specifically, companies like Ste-Julie, Que.-based Imprimerie Saint-Julie Inc. —a successful, family-operated label supplier employing 85 people at two label converting facilities specializing in flexographic and digital printing processes.

Boston, Mass. – Food prices are affecting how and what people eat, says Oxfam International

When Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems Canada first began as a subsidiary of the highly successful German Busch Vacuum Technics , it was a very small operation housed in a basement of the founder and current president and chief executive officer Paul Wieser in Sherbrooke, Que. Now celebrating 25 years as part of the global enterprise The Busch Group , Busch Canada employs over 50 people, including 17 professional engineers in a modern, 30,000-square-foot facility located in Boisbriand, Que. that houses a distribution center, service, design and does assembly performance.

Ottawa, Ont. – According to a new report from the Conference Board of Canada (CBC), the Canadian food industry generates more than nine per cent of the country’s GDP. The study, Valuing Food: The Economic Contribution of Canada’s Food Sector , is the first of 20 reports by the Centre for Food in Canada, a three-year CBC program designed to facilitate research towards a Canadian Food Strategy

MONTREAL: The United Steelworkers (USW) says it has reached a tentative agreement with Intertape Polymer to pay severance to some 80 employees in Brantford, Ont. who were on strike for nearly three years.