Food & Beverage Cluster

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Food & Beverage Clusters

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Food & Beverage Clusters

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What’s a cluster?

Concentration of interconnected businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions

Increases the productivity, drives innovation, stimulates new businesses

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Food & Beverage

Food processing, warehousing and distribution, retailing and food services

Generates growth in related industries that service the cluster, including packaging, design, production of food industry equipment, biotechnology & specialized storage and transportation

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Toronto’s Clusters

Aerospace Biomedical &

Biotechnology Business Services Design Fashion Apparel

Film & TelevisionFinancial ServicesFood & BeverageInformation and Communication Technology (ICT)Tourism

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Diversity is KEY

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Toronto’s Food Incubator

Toronto Food Business Incubator (TFBI) provides information and programs to help those who want to start a food business

Applicants must develop and present a business plan, must show entrepreneurship, tenacity and the aptitude for developing organization, communication and people skills

Facility is fully licensed industrial kitchen Available to small food

processing businesses

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Guelph – Food Central

GFTC FARE OAC AFMNet

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GFTC

Guelph Food Technology Centre Canada’s only not-for-profit, non-subsidized food

technology centre Provides creative, confidential technical

solutions, training, consulting & auditing to the Canadian agri-food industry in R&D, product development, packaging, shelf-life, food safety, quality & productivity improvement

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FARE

Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics

Department at U of Guelph Poultry building, a dairy building, a

nutrition building

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OAC

Ontario Agricultural College Global leader in innovative life sciences

education & research for environment, agriculture, food, & rural communities

Research programs focus on food quality & safety, development of value-added products & innovative technologies for manufacture

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AFMNet

The Advanced Food & Materials Network Canada’s front line of research &

development in the area of advanced foods & bio-materials

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The Food Bowl

Manukau, Auckland, NZ Employs over 5,460 in southern sector of

Auckland, over 73,500 in New Zealand, growth rate of over 5% per year

More than half of export earnings for New Zealand generated from food & beverage sector

Largest manufacturing sector by total output

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Particular focus on production, packaging and distribution for local and export markets

Leadership in design of manufacture, processing and packaging systems

R & D is central to Auckland's offer with advances in food production and new product development

Offers specialized college

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Last words…

Let’s go eat!