Presentation to Food and Beverage Atlantic November 22, 2018 IMP - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Presentation to Food and Beverage Atlantic November 22, 2018

• Atlantic Canadian Food Industry has changed structurally over past decade
• Food Industry contributes significantly to the Atlantic Canadian economy

IMP MPOR ORTANCE ANCE of

• f FOO

OOD D SECT ECTOR OR in in ATL TLANTIC ANTIC CANAD ADA

• 892

892 processors with 37,591 employees (2012)

• $6.6 B

B (2012) annual gross revenue

• Exports (2016) - $904M

M Food & Beverage manufacturing; $392 92M M in aquaculture; $3.2B .2B seafood

• Food is the top manufactured product in Atlantic Canada, 25%

5% of GDP

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• ACOA support has spanned many of the food industry

sub-sectors from potato production to aquaculture to food and beverage processing

• Over the last ten years, ACOA contributed $25

254M 4M to food projects worth in excess of $900M 900M

• Support has been wide-ranging and project-specific.
• There has been limited Agency-wide coordination on

Food.

ACOA’s role in FOOD SECTOR in ATLANTIC CANADA

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ACOA COA ACT CTIONS IONS to da date te

• Consultations with Food Sector Companies
• Interviews with 70 food sector companies

in the Region, ranging from large multi- nationals to SMEs

• Creation of Federal-Provincial Food Sector Working Group
• Provincial reps, AFFC, DFO, ISED, ESDC, CFIA
• Coordinates planning to develop joint projects in the regional food

sector

• Provides briefings to AGS Leaders
• ACOA and Nova Scotia co-chair

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ALI LIGNME GNMENT NT

Advisory Council on Economic Growth Agri-food Economic Strategy Table RDA 2.0 Atlantic Growth Advisory Group Budget 2018 ACOA Champion File Linkages Provincial Priorities

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ATLA LANTIC NTIC GRO ROWTH TH STRA TRATEG TEGY Y

• Federal/provincial economic development initiative

announced by ISED Minister, Atlantic regional ministers, and four Atlantic premiers in July 2016

• Atlantic Trade and Investment Growth Strategy
• A collaborative, multi-year international business

development strategy

• $20 M Atlantic Trade & Investment Growth Agreement
• Mandate - Expand business activities between Atlantic

Canada and international markets, and strategically market the region as a whole by displaying the best Atlantic Canada has to offer the world.

• 10 key sector priorities (Value-added Food and Beverage

sector, Seafood sector)

Value-added Food & Beverage Seafood

KEY ACTIVITIES

1. Building Export Capacity through BDP:

• Export Readiness Activities
• Trade Missions
• 2. Federal-Provincial Investment ($20M) in

ATIGA:

ATLANTIC LANTIC TRA RADE DE an and INV NVES ESTMENT TMENT GRO ROWTH TH STRA TRATEG TEGY Y

• SIAL Canada 2018
• SIAL Paris 2018
• Incoming buyers mission

2018

• Seafood Expo Asia 2017
• Seafood Expo Global

2017/18

• China Fisheries & Seafood

Expo 2018

• Food Hotel China 2018
• Export Cafés

• AAFC presented the concept for the Atlantic Food

Hub Initiative at the Leadership committee in July.

• One Stop Shop Concept/ Outreach/ Collaboration
• AAFC is the lead on the file and ACOA is assisting

with the development of the project.

• Next step: ACOA will undertake a gap analysis of

existing resources to identify where there are gaps in the skills, knowledge, and networks needed to accelerate growth in the food industry.

ATLA LANTIC NTIC CANAD ADA FOO OOD D HUB B INI NITIA TIATIVE TIVE

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RE RESEAR EARCH CH CL CLUS USTER TER

The ACFWG working with Springboard Atlantic is assessing regional research assets related to Lobster including:

• Assessing university research activity;
• Identifying research activity being led by Provinces and DFO;
• Conducting a targeted survey with industry on specific research

needs related to lobster;

• Host provincial engagement events between the lobster industry

stakeholders, Springboard and their and ACOA late in 2018.

• Host a Pan-Atlantic event the end of Jan 2019 to establish

priorities.

Model could be used for research related to any food sector industry.

Industry identified a lack of commercially-applicable research in the food sector

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