Affiliate Members
FCPC's affiliates are companies that provide support services, such as management consulting, technology, logistics, ingredients and packaging to the food and consumer products industry.
Affiliates are valued association partners who contribute information and resources to industry discussions, help members gain new insights and provide solutions to industry-wide challenges.
FCPC appreciates the ongoing support and commitment of affiliate members.
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- The Advantage Group International, Inc. [ External Site ]
- Advantage Sales and Marketing
- Aeroplan Limited Partnership
- Agriculture Adaptation Council
- ACCE [ External Site ]
- All Stick Label Ltd. [ External Site ]
- A.T. Kearney Ltd.
- Brenntag Canada Inc.
- Canadian Linen and Uniform Service Co. [ External Site ]
- Canampac ULC
- Casco Inc.
- Central Graphics & Container Group Ltd.
- CHD-Expert Canada Inc.
- CHEP Canada Inc.
- CIBC Commercial Banking
- Claims Recovery Group Inc. [ External Site ]
- Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Dial One Wolfedale Electric [ External Site ]
- Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc.
- Elopak Canada Inc.
- Faye Clack Communications Inc. [ External Site ]
- FKILogistex Canada [ External Site ]
- GCI Group [ External Site ]
- Griffith Laboratories, Ltd. [ External Site ]
- Heenan Blaikie
- HORN
- HR Connects
- IBM Business Consulting Services
- Kerry Canada Inc.
- Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions [ External Site ]
- KPMG LLP
- Mandrake
- The Marketplace Capabilities Group
- Monsanto Canada Inc.
- Mosaic Sales Solutions
- Nealanders [ External Site ]
- News Canada, Inc.
- The Nielsen Company
- The NPD Group Canada Corp.
- Orkin Canada
- Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
- Palette PR
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Ray & Berndtson
- Rogers Business Solutions, Corporate Market Sales
- Silliker Canada Co. [ External Site ]
- Tata Consultancy Services [ External Site ]
- Teradata Canada
- Tetra Pak Canada Inc. [ External Site ]
- Total Recall Services [ External Site ]
- Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Aeroplan Limited Partnership
Aeroplan is Canada's premier loyalty marketing company, dedicated to developing and executing programs designed to engage the loyalty of its prestigious membership.
Aeroplan's millions of members earn Aeroplan Miles with its network of more than 60 world-class partners, representing more than 100 brands in the financial, retail and travel sectors. Miles earned may be redeemed for Aeroplan's industry-leading ClassicFlight Rewards, innovative ClassicPlus Flight Rewards and global Star Alliance Flight Rewards, offering travel to more than 850 destinations worldwide. In 2006 alone, more than 1.4 million round-trip flight rewards were issued. Aeroplan's roster of non-flight rewards includes more than 400 exciting specialty, merchandise and experiential rewards, as well as hotel and car rental rewards.
For more information about Aeroplan, please visit www.aeroplan.com
| Contact: | Ben Lirangi, Senior Manager, New Products & Channels |
| Tel: | (416) 352-3801 |
| Email: | ben.lirangi@aeroplan.com |
| Web site: | www.aeroplan.com |
Agricultural Adaptation Council
The Agricultural Adaptation Council is a non-profit coalition of over 50 Ontario agricultural, agri-food and rural organizations. It was established in 1995 to administer Ontario's share of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Canadian Adaptation and Rural Development (CARD) fund.
The AAC's mission is to be a catalyst for adaptation and innovation. The Council delivers funding that assists Ontario's agri-food sector and rural communities remain competitive, grow and maintain their economic strength. The priority areas for projects and programs are: food safety confidence and quality; environmental sustainability; marketing and competitiveness; human resources; and rural development, innovation and adaptation.
Agricultural Adaptation Council
192 Nicklin Road, Guelph, ON
N1H 7L5
| Contact: | Angela Stiles |
| Tel: | (519) 822-7554 |
| Email: | canadapt@adaptcouncil.org |
| Web site: | www.adaptcouncil.org |
A.T. Kearney Ltd.
A.T. Kearney is the world's fastest-growing management consulting firm. No one surpasses our firm when it comes to mobilizing knowledge and resources to make major improvements in a company's products and services, relationships or economics. We call it Powerful Contributions to competitive advantage. For more than 70 years, we've built a distinguished history of helping business leaders fulfill their missions. From formulating strategic plans to operations and information technology capabilities, people who know us appreciate our ability to focus on the big picture and the smallest detail.
A.T. Kearney consultants, a diverse and talented group, enjoy the multifaceted nature of our business. Our people work together in a team-based, collegial atmosphere that creates a sense of camaraderie. Our people collaborate and share information, knowledge and insights to broaden the range of skills and expertise in our firm. And they share an entrepreneurial spirit carrying this self-motivation and drive with them throughout every assignment.
| Contact: | Paul Inglis |
| Tel: | (416) 596-3618 |
| Web site: | www.atkearney.com |
Casco
Casco Inc., founded in 1858, is Canada's principal producer of starches, sweeteners, oil and animal feed derived from corn. We also provide specialty ingredients such as polyols and prebiotic fibre. These products supply a customer base including food and beverage producers, paper manufacturers and animal nutrition suppliers. Casco has three refining facilities in Ontario: Cardinal, London and Port Colborne, is headquartered in Etobicoke, Ontario and has a sales office in Pointe Claire, Quebec. For more information visit www.casco.ca.
| Contact: | Rob Kee Managing Director |
| Tel: | 416-620-3581 |
CIBC Commercial Banking
CIBC Commercial Banking provides a full range of innovative financial solutions for medium-sized Canadian businesses. We are committed to Partnering with Canada's Best® organizations, with a focus on companies with annual sales of between $5 million and $500 million. For more than 100 years, CIBC Commercial Banking clients have built, fueled, wired and fed this country. Our client base includes a diverse group of leading food companies representing all segments of the overall food and packaged goods industry. CIBC Commercial Banking has created a specialized team with a dedicated focus on the Canadian food industry, consisting of relationship managers and product specialists covering all the geographic markets in Canada. We are uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive set of financing, advisory, treasury and capital markets solutions targeted at the food sector. Our food industry specialists understand the unique challenges and opportunities that face the industry. We are committed to leveraging our knowledge and expertise to proactively provide ideas and solutions to help our clients create, protect and realize value in their businesses at every stage of their development.
Conway Management Canada
Since 1983 Conway Management Company has been a global leader in helping organizations make substantial improvements in profitability. We focus on four key elements to drive these improvements: human relations (personal and organizational), measurement, supply chain relationships, and the improvement of work & work processes. Our methods lead to broad process improvement and a real culture change. Our most successful clients, with our help, made improvements that were far in excess of their belief of what could be accomplished.
The Right Way To Manage©, which is our system of improvement, is a simple and practical team-based way to drive bottom-line results.
We have extensive experience with such major food processing and consumer product companies as Weston Foods, Coca-Cola, Parmalat, Nestlé and Fresh Express, plus numerous regional food processors.
We also work with many leading U.S. regional grocery retailers such as Wegman's, H.E. Butt, and Schnuck Markets, helping them improve their competitive position in an increasingly difficult and competitive marketplace.
Examples of projects include new product launch, growth in a flat market, manufacturing performance, order fill, supply chain and lean manufacturing.
| Contact: | John Petrie, Director of Canadian Operations |
| Tel: | (416) 620-6798 |
| Web site: | www.conwaymgmt.com |
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Deloitte in Canada
Deloitte, one of Canada's leading professional services firms, provides audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services to a wide range of Canadian and international clients. Deloitte is the Canadian member firm of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein, which is an association of firms operating in almost 150 countries. Together, DTT member firms have almost 120,000 employees around the world. In Quebec, Deloitte operates as Samson Bélair/Deloitte & Touche.
Canadian Client Services
At Deloitte, it's our business to know what drives your business. We combine industry insight with a deep understanding of today's local and global business challenges to give our clients the intelligent, practical and principled solutions they need to resolve today's challenges and anticipate tomorrow's.
Our professional services are diverse - from forensic accounting, control assurance, security services, risk management, strategy consulting and enterprise applications to indirect tax, accounting, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and personal tax and financial planning, and much, much more. But they all have one thing in common: helping our clients excel.
Elopak Canada Inc.
At the centre of Elopak's well established range of packaging solutions is the Pure-Pak carton, the world's first paperboard carton.
Based in Norway, and wholly owned by the Ferd Group (one of Norway's largest privately owned industrial groups) Elopak is continually modifying its packaging expertise to match changing world demands for packaged food. Elopak's business is to break new ground at every level of packaging; processing standards, food science, logistics analysis, packaging concepts, all alongside a total systems approach which uniquely characterizes Elopak's contribution to the world of packaging.
Half a century of continuous development sees a truly global corporation operating on every continent. With in depth penetration through a network of market units and associates in more than 40 countries and customers in over 100, the Elopak Group seeks to bring its international expertise and product technology to new markets.
| Contact: | Jason Giuliani, Senior Commercial Manager |
| Tel: | (514) 326-0350 |
| E-mail: | jason.giuliani@elopak.com |
| Web site: | www.elopak.com |
Heenan Blaikie
Heenan Blaikie is one of Canada's largest law firms, with over 400 lawyers in nine cities. We offer highly focused expertise in marketing and advertising law, with 20 years of experience in the area. Through a national team, based primarily in Ontario and Quebec, we bring together an invaluable combination of talent and experience in marketing and advertising law, intellectual property and information technology, privacy law, communication and broadcasting law, entertainment and sports law, tax law, regulatory law and litigation. Our breadth of experience covers food and beverage products, natural health products, textiles, broadcasting and a diverse range of other consumer products and services. We assist major marketers and agencies on the full range of promotional programs including contests, games and sweepstakes (online and offline), premium offers, rebate and coupon offers, joint promotions and charitable tie-ins. We review the packaging and labeling of a wide range of products and assist clients with challenges brought by competitors, consumers and regulators, before the courts, the Competition Tribunal and self-regulatory bodies. With our in-depth and multi-disciplinary expertise, our team provides comprehensive advice to clients wishing to market products and services in Canada, whether they are based here or abroad.
| Contact: | Samera Marei, Toronto Marketing Manager |
| Tel: | 416 643 6863 |
HORN
Since HORN's inception as a sales training company in 1984, many of the world’s most successful businesses have benefited from our sales force development, coaching, consulting, and blended delivery services. Focusing on sales force development and leadership, our reach includes Canada, the U.S., the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Results are what matter, and we deliver them consistently.
Taking a performance-consulting approach, we work with leaders to identify the challenges facing their organizations. This leads to the design, development, and delivery of programs that meet the precisely defined needs of their organizations. We offer a broad range of delivery methods, including facilitation, e-Learning, train-the-trainer, and one-on-one coaching.
A combination of characteristics makes us unique, including: experience in the psychology of selling; specialization in sales forces; customization of training; executive coaching; ongoing research into our high-integrity method of impacting others; and our focus on measuring the ROI of our solutions, through the HORN Centre for Measurement.
| Contact: | Barbara Gaiptman, Senior Vice President, Client Relations |
| Tel: | 905-761-8000 x223 |
| E-mail: | bgaiptman@horn.com |
| Web site: | www.horn.com |
IBM Business Consulting Services
IBM Canada provides leading information technology solutions and consulting to assist retail wholesale and consumer packaged goods companies achieve an efficient consumer-driven supply chain. IBM’s business applications span the spectrum from logistics to marketing and sales to store operations. In addition, IBM offers a full array of hardware, software and services to build a solid IT infrastructure. Whether you are developing the plan, looking to implement a supply chain solution, or need the infrastructure to bring it together, IBM and IBM Business Partners have practical, proven solutions.
| Contact: | Susan Wilkinson |
| Tel: | 416 478 8213 |
| Web site: | www.can.ibm.com |
KPMG LLP
KPMG LLP is the Canadian member firm of KPMG, a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. We operate in 144 countries and have more than 104,000 professionals working in member firms around the world.
| Contact: | Willy Kruh |
| Tel: | (416) 777-8710 |
| Web site: | www.kpmg.ca |
News Canada, Inc.
For over 25 years, News Canada, Inc. has been providing a strategic and unique public relations service by delivering its clients' embedded messages to millions of consumers via the media. With the information obtained from annual media surveys, not only do we keep on top of the needs of the media but are also able to provide our clients with a cost-effective means of achieving positive coverage for their products and services. Through our Print, Web, Broadcast and Online Video services, we offer 100% guaranteed pick-up of your media-requested, newsworthy content and standardized reporting of proof of performance and success.
To take advantage of our partnership with FCPC, contact us today for a demonstration on how you can reach, educate and impact millions of consumers by calling 1-888-855-NEWS or emailing ncinfo@newscanada.com.
| Contact: | Charlene Nadalin |
| Tel: | (416) 599-9900 x203 |
| Email: | cnadalin@newscanada.com |
The Nielsen Company
About The Nielsen Company
The Nielsen Company is a global information and media company with leading market positions and recognized brands in marketing information (ACNielsen), media information (Nielsen Media Research), business publications (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek), trade shows and the newspaper sector (Scarborough Research). The privately held company has more than 42,000 employees and is active in more than 100 countries, with headquarters in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and New York, USA.
| Contact: | Dave Mann |
| Tel: | (905) 943-8514 |
| Web site: | www.acnielsen.ca |
The NPD Group, Inc.
Since 1953, The NPD Group, Inc. has been helping companies develop more effective marketing strategies by providing a foundation of knowledge on consumer purchasing and behaviour.
The NPD Group, Inc. offers businesses a full spectrum of marketing information options - from industry tracking to custom solutions, on the Internet and around the world. With more than 700 major corporations looking to us for the knowledge they need to make better business decisions, we know that we must remain focused in our search for smarter solutions. After all, our goal isn't just keeping pace with our clients, but playing an integral part in their success.
| Contact: | Jane Graham, General Manager, Foodservice |
| Tel: | 647-723-7776 |
| E-mail: | jane_graham@npd.com |
| Web site: | www.npd.com |
Orkin Canada
The largest pest management provider in Canada, Orkin Canada offers essential pest control services for homeowners and commercial businesses. The company serves more than 50,000 customers in numerous industries including food and beverage processing, retail, warehousing, and manufacturing. Orkin Canada offers its Gold Medal Protection program, a comprehensive Integrated Pest Management system specifically designed for these highly regulated industries. Headquartered in Toronto, Orkin Canada employs more than 600 employees in 30 offices, serving the country's 4,600 miles and five time zones. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rollins, Inc. and a division of Atlanta, Ga.-based Orkin, Inc. For more information, call 1-800-800-ORKIN or visit www.orkincanada.ca.
| Contact: | Guy LeBlanc, Business Development Manager |
| Tel: | 905-502-9700 |
| E-mail: | gleblanc@pcocanada.com |
Ray & Berndtson
Ray & Berndtson Canada is Canada's largest national executive search firm. With six offices nationally, including over 40 Partners, each with extensive experience in conducting senior level search assignments in the broadest range of industry and functional areas, the firm provides services to a wide range of industries including retail, consumer products, financial services, information systems and technology, transportation, professional services, public sector, healthcare, automotive/manufacturing and energy/utilities as well as a wide range of private sector companies. Globally, Ray & Berndtson is the sixth largest search firm in the world.
| Contact: | Andrew Norrie, Principal |
| Tel: | 416-366-1990 x345 |
| E-mail: | Andrew.norrie@rayberndtson.ca |
| Web site: | www.rayberndtson.ca |
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Watson Wyatt is a global consulting firm focused on human capital and financial management. We specialize in four areas: employee benefits, human capital strategies, technology solutions, and insurance and financial services.
We combine human capital and financial expertise to deliver business solutions that drive shareholder value. Our consulting is grounded in the most extensive research in the business. This translates into unique perspectives and forward-thinking solutions.
Watson Wyatt has approximately 6,000 associates in 30 countries.
| Toll free: | 866/206-5723 |
| E-mail: | infocanada@watsonwyatt.com |
| Web site: | www.watsonwyatt.com/canada-english/splash/ |