date:Mar 07, 2014
A group of Ontario investors announced last week they plan to run the century-old plant and take over producing and distributing tomato juice for Heinz in the Canadian market. The move spared 250 of the 740 workers slated to lose their jobs in Leamington, Ontario, widely known as the tomato capital of Canada.
Under the Canadian Agricultural Products Act, tomato juice must be made from whole tomatoes and not from concentrated paste as it is at Heinz plants in the U.S.
The tomatoes are going to