US meat processor Tyson Foods and Canada’s Export Packers Co have announced a joint venture to produce fully-cooked chicken products for sale in the Canadian market. 

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The venture’s production facility, where more than 30 employees will initially work, will be in Paris, Ontario. Start-up is planned for spring 2004. The name of the new company will be Export Packers Foods Ltd. 


The venture will produce Tyson brand products, as well as products sold under Export Packers’ brands for both foodservice and consumer markets.


Brampton, Ontario-based Export Packers is one of Canada’s largest privately owned food companies, and an importer of poultry products into Canada.

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