Reading Time: 3 minutes A storied Canadian producer of bread and bakery products has a month to pay a $50 million fine for price-fixing in an ongoing federal probe which still has eyes on several major retailers. Ontario’s Superior Court on Wednesday sentenced Toronto-based Canada Bread Co. after the company pled guilty to four counts of fixing bread prices […] Read more
Canada Bread fined $50 million over price-fixing
'Leniency' settlement follows breadmaker's guilty plea
Loblaw parent Weston sells cookie and cone business
'Ambient' bakery plants include Kitchener site
Reading Time: 2 minutes The parent company for Canadian grocery and retail giant Loblaw is stepping the rest of the way out of the baked goods business. George Weston Ltd. said Monday it has signed a deal to sell its Weston Foods “ambient” bakery business — which produces cookies and crackers, along with cones and wafers for ice cream […] Read more
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