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Site chosen for Canada's largest bakery plant

18-Feb-2010

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Maple Leaf Foods' Canada Bread has reached a deal in principle to site a planned $100m bakery facility, the largest of its kind in Canada, on the south side of Hamilton in southwestern Ontario.

The company said expects to start construction by June this year, and to commission the plant's first production lines about 12 months later.

Canada Bread announced last month that by 2013 it will shut three Toronto-area bakeries "constrained by urban development" by 2013 and move their production to its new facility.

The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario has now pledged a $2m repayable contribution for "pre-engineering and design activities" leading up to the new bakery's construction, Canada Bread said.