Maple Leaf Foods buys Ontario poultry plant
Canada's Maple Leaf Foods has completed its purchase of the Cericola Farms poultry plant near Schomberg, Ontario, expanding the company's protein portfolio.![](https://cdn.globalagmedia.com/poultry/articles/post-production-and-products/poultry-processing-14.jpeg)
The company's purchase, which includes the plant's associated poultry supply, was completed in accordance with the exercise of a put option by the vendors, Certm Inc. and certain related companies. The put option was part of a 2018 purchase and sale agreement where Maple Leaf Foods acquired two other poultry plants and associated poultry supply in Ontario.