Parrish & Heimbecker
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Agriculture |
| Founded | 1909 |
| Founder | W.L. Parrish Norman Heimbecker |
| Headquarters | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Area served | Worldwide |
Number of employees | 1,500 (June 2010) |
| Website | parrishandheimbecker.com |
Parrish & Heimbecker Limited is a Canadian grain company with about 1,500 employees across Canada and the northern United States. The company has several divisions including flour milling, feed milling, grain marketing, transportation and logistics.
It is a private, family-owned business founded in 1909. This Canadian-owned, vertically integrated business is one of the largest full-service grain-handling and crop-input supply companies in Canada. It is the largest Canadian-owned milling company in Canada, with animal nutrition, poultry farming and food-processing divisions in Western and Eastern Canada.
In 2002, the company acquired a grain elevator at from Agricore United. The elevator is located between Gilbert Plains and Grandview.[1]
History[]
Parrish and Heimbecker was begun in 1909 by William Parrish and . Until 1918, the firm bought and sold grain on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, but did not operate grain elevators.
In 1918, P&H bought ten elevators from Louis Strong and Frederick Dowler, who were Calgary grain brokers. After buying more elevators, by 1920, P&H had 20 elevators.
Network of Canadian grain elevators and terminals[]
In 2011, P&H had approximately 32 grain elevators in Canada including twelve grain elevators in Ontario that handle a variety of Canadian agricultural products such as wheat, corn, barley, soybeans, oats, distillers grains, IP soybeans and navy beans.
In 2019, P&H purchased 10 grain elevators from Louis Dreyfus Company Canada ULC
Divisions[]
Other divisions of Parrish and Heimbecker include:
- The P&H Milling Group focused on Flour Milling and Pea Proteins
- New Life Mills specializing in Animal Nutrition
References[]
- ^ "Agricore United Sells Elevator To Parrish & Heimbecker". Resource News International. February 26, 2002. Retrieved November 25, 2008.[dead link]
- "Parrish and Heimbecker Grain Company". The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Retrieved November 25, 2008.
- "P&H Expands Saskatchewan Presence". realagriculture.com. April 16, 2013.
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