Maple Leaf Foods Inc. operates three core businesses:

Our Meat Products Group comprises two leading Canadian brands in fresh and prepared meats, Maple Leaf and Schneiders, as well as Maple Leaf Prime Naturally and a variety of household brands. Product lines include packaged meats, ready-to-cook and ready-to-serve meal products and value-added fresh pork, poultry and turkey. We market these products primarily in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Japan.

The North American and U.K. operations of Maple Leaf’s Bakery Products Group also have leading brands and market shares. The fresh bakery business owns Dempster’s, the No. 1 national brand of fresh bread, and produces nutritious fresh bakery products such as whole wheat, organic and multi-grain breads, rolls and artisan breads. We also own Olivieri Foods, which is Canada’s largest maker – and leading brand – of fresh pasta and sauce products. The frozen bakery business is a major North American producer and distributor of frozen unbaked, par-baked and fully baked bread products for retail and foodservice customers. Our U.K. operations is one of Britain’s leading specialty bakeries, producing bagels, croissants, in-store bakery products and artisan breads.

Our Agribusiness Group provides raw material and essential services to Maple Leaf’s fresh and prepared meats facilities. This includes raising hogs to support approximately 20% of our fresh pork processing requirements. Maple Leaf is also one of Canada’s largest recyclers of animal by-products into value-added products such as animal feeds and amino-acid supplements, and is a significant producer of clean-burning commercial biofuels.

Maple Leaf Foods has 23,500 employees worldwide and operates approximately 90 facilities in North America and the United Kingdom.