Food, beverage and tobacco

Description: Tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, manufactured tobacco, fine cut, manufactured tobacco, pipe tobacco), monthly production, sales (total, domestic, to ships, air stores and foreign embassies in Canada) and inventories for Canada.

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Stocks of specified dairy products, Canada and provinces (in tonnes). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Production of selected butter products, Canada and provinces (in tonnes). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Production of selected products, by dairy manufacturers, Canada and provinces (tonnes unless otherwise noted). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Milk production and utilization, Canada and provinces (in kilolitres). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Commercial sales of milk and cream, Canada and provinces (in kilolitres). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Production of butterfat (kilograms x 1,000), Canada and provinces. Data are available on a monthly basis.

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This table contains 217 series, with data for years 1956 - 2010 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-09-29. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Commodities (217 items: Meat; fish and dairy products; Meat products; Primary meat products; Beef and veal; fresh or frozen ...).

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This table contains 211 series, with data for years 1956 - 2013 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2014-01-06. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Commodities (211 items: Meat; fish and dairy products; Primary meat products; Beef and veal; fresh or frozen; Meat products ...).

Description: This table contains 2 series, with data for years 1990 - 1994 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada); Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) (2 items: Biscuits, soda; Biscuits, plain and fancy).

Description: Tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, manufactured tobacco, fine cut, manufactured tobacco, pipe tobacco), monthly production, sales (total, domestic, to ships, air stores and foreign embassies in Canada) and inventories for Canada.

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Stocks of specified dairy products, Canada and provinces (in tonnes). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Production of selected butter products, Canada and provinces (in tonnes). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Production of selected products, by dairy manufacturers, Canada and provinces (tonnes unless otherwise noted). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Milk production and utilization, Canada and provinces (in kilolitres). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Commercial sales of milk and cream, Canada and provinces (in kilolitres). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Production of butterfat (kilograms x 1,000), Canada and provinces. Data are available on a monthly basis.

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This table contains 217 series, with data for years 1956 - 2010 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-09-29. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Commodities (217 items: Meat; fish and dairy products; Meat products; Primary meat products; Beef and veal; fresh or frozen ...).

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This table contains 211 series, with data for years 1956 - 2013 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2014-01-06. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Commodities (211 items: Meat; fish and dairy products; Primary meat products; Beef and veal; fresh or frozen; Meat products ...).

Description: This table contains 2 series, with data for years 1990 - 1994 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada); Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) (2 items: Biscuits, soda; Biscuits, plain and fancy).

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The objective of this study is to provide up-to-date measures of the concentration of the manufacturing industries in the Canadian food-processing sector.

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Food processing is one of Canada's largest manufacturing industries, consisting of more than 3,000 establishments. Employing close to 230,000 people in 1998, it boasted a gross domestic product of $15 billion that same year. The relationship between the use of advanced manufacturing technology and firm performance during the 1990s, as measured by growth in labour productivity and growth in market share, is the subject of a recently released Statistics Canada study, which finds that a high-technology orientation is closely associated with success.

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This paper investigates the evolution of industrial structure in the Canadian food processing sector and its relationship to technological change. It uses 1998 special survey data on advanced technology use, plant characteristics and plant performance.

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The purpose of this paper is to examine profitability trends in the Canadian food processing industry, comparing it with other manufacturing industries during the period of 1990 to 1998.

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This study provides a financial profile of Canadian food industry corporations that were acquired during the period 1996 to 1998.

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This paper examines the factors contributing to the adoption of advanced technologies in the Canadian food-processing sector. The numbers of technologies used by a plant is found to be highly correlated with expected gains in firm performance. The benefits of enhanced food safety and quality, as well as productivity improvements, are closely associated with technology use. Impediments that negatively affect technology use include software costs, problems with external financing, lack of cash flow for financing, and internal management problems. Even after accounting for the different benefits and costs associated with technology adoption, the numbers of advanced technologies that are adopted are found to be greater in larger plants, in foreign-controlled plants, in plants that engage in both primary and secondary processing, and in the dairy, fruit and vegetable and "other" food product industries.

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Food manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers have managed to sustain reasonable returns during the 1990s despite the challenges posed by the advent of free trade agreements and the changing eating habits of the population. This article looks at the returns on investment for businesses operating in the domestic food sector during the 1990s.

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The most recent issue contains the article "The beverage industries: two markets" by Peter Zylstra.This paper presents recent developments in the Beverage Industries. Following a brief introduction, the industry is analysed in terms of the four component sub-industries, which fall into two groups: soft drinks and alcoholic beverages. The two groups constitute different overall markets. The summary of recent developments is based on results of the 1997 Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM). Other sources are used to provide industry environment and economic backgroun.

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The food-processing industry benefits from a wide a range of new advanced technologies. Technological advances include computer-based information and control systems, as well as sophisticated processing and packaging methods that enhance product quality, improve food safety and reduce costs. Continuous quality improvement and benchmarking are examples of related business practices.

This study examines the use of advanced technologies in the food-processing industry. It focuses not just on the incidence and intensity of use of these new technologies but also on the way technology relates to overall firm strategy. It also examines how technology use is affected by selected industry structural characteristics and how the adoption of technologies affects the performance of firms. It considers as well how the environment influences technological change. The nature and structure of the industry are shown to condition the competitive environment, the business strategies that are pursued, product characteristics and the role of technology.

Firms make strategic choices in light of technological opportunities and the risks and opportunities provided by their competitive environments. They implement strategies through appropriate business practices and activities, including the development of core competencies in the areas of marketing, production and human resources, as well as technology. Firms that differ in size and nationality choose to pursue different technological strategies. This study focuses on how these differences are reflected in the different use of technology for large and small establishments, for foreign and domestic plants and for plants in different industries.

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This paper examines the factors contributing to innovative activity in the Canadian food processing sector. The study first focuses on the importance of research and development activity and advanced business practices used by production and engineering departments. Second, it examines the extent to which larger firm size and less competition serve to stimulate competition-the so-called Schumpeterian hypothesis. Third, the effect of the nationality of a firm on innovation is investigated. Finally, industry effects are examined.

The paper finds that business practices are significantly related to the probability that a firm is innovative. This is also the case for R&D. Size effects are significant, particularly for process innovations. Elsewhere, their effect is greatly diminished once business practices are included. Foreign ownership is significant only for process innovations and not for product innovations. Competition matters, more so for product than for process innovations. Establishments in the 'other' food products industry tend to lead when it comes to innovation, whereas fish product plants tend to lag.

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This activity considers some of the new produce we are seeing in Canadian grocery stores. It looks at the origins of these vegetables, and how they made it to the produce aisle.

Description: The objective of this survey is to provide statistics on the technological capabilities of establishments in the food processing industry.

Description: This survey is designed to collect information on current levels of operation. The results, which provide an early indication of trends in the Canadian economy, are used extensively by the Canadian Soft Drink Association, food and beverage manufacturers, aluminium manufacturers, and investment houses.

Description: This survey was a cost-recoverable survey funded by the Canadian Oil Seed Processors Association designed to collect information on current levels of operation. The results, which provide an early indication of trends in the Canadian economy, were used extensively by the association, as well as by food companies and the Canadian Wheat Board.

Description: The survey collected data on monthly and cumulative production and inventory of packaged instant skim milk powder and process cheese with previous year's comparative data.

Description: The monthly survey, Production and Disposition of Tobacco products, measures quantities of tobacco products that are produced and sold by Canadian manufacturers.

Description: This survey measured the production of raw and refined sugar in Canada.

Description: This survey was designed to collect information on current levels of operation of the biscuits industry.

Description: The survey collected data on the production and stocks of tea and coffee and stocks and grindings of cocoa beans.

Description: The main use of this survey was to provide information to other government bodies, interested associations and members of the industry. A secondary use was to enhance the quality of information collected by the Annual Survey of Manufactures.