Business View Magazine | July 2019

296 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 The Food Development Centre can help your business take new food products to market. The Food Development Centre (FDC) is an internationally recognized leader in the development and commercialization of food products for domestic and international markets. In our 40-year history, our food scientists, engineers and technologists have helped companies of all sizes to successfully create and commercialize new products. The Food Development Centre’s expertise includes formulating and testing new products, developing new processes, creating new protein ingredients, improving and expanding existing product lines, finding new uses for products and by- products, nutritional labelling, regulatory assistance, food safety training, and technology transfer. The Food Development Centre has expertise in protein products. We can help extract protein from various commodities, create innovative product applications for customers, turn co-products into high value foods. The Food Development Centre has incubator space available on a daily or long-term basis to meet your company’s needs. If you have a product idea, please contact us. The initial consultation with our team is free. ...... For more information, please visit our website www.manitoba.ca/fdc development take place. They’ll be reaching out to their network of international business contacts to consider expansion of their operations and portfolio into Canada, and Portage la Prairie. So, it’s a very exciting relationship.” BVM: Is the population increasing along with the business growth? May: “We expect by the time we get to the next census, a year from now, that we will see a major jump. We’re seeing a lot of inbound international immigration through the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), which is recruiting skilled labor and professional trades from overseas to immigrate to Canada. A lot of those people are coming to Portage la Prairie on the Economic Stream Visa, which means within 18 months of arrival they are required to open a business that creates work and, especially, jobs for themselves. “It’s not passive investment, like buying an apartment building and managing it from elsewhere in the world, they’re buying corner grocery stores and gas stations and becoming active in the community. With all the industry and subsequent new businesses, we’re now at 500 new jobs created. In the next 10 years, this relationship with Carpere looks to create another 500. And those are very preliminary numbers. We’re heavily immersed in strategic planning, right now. By the time all those jobs come online, the homes will be here, as well.” We Can Help... 204 239 3150 www.manitoba.ca/fdc SELL MORE PRODUCT! lips Street, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada R1N 4A4 • Extract protein from various commodities • Create innovative product applications for customers • Bl d product ingredients to make a health claim • Use natural ingredients for higher consumer acceptance • Turn low value co-products into high value foods