Above Food Corp. Completes Acquisition of Grain & Protein Ingredient Terminal in Kindersley, Saskatchewan - "Open For Business"

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Regina, Saskatchewan – TheNewswire - February 23, 2021 – Purely Canada FoodsTM (“Purely Canada”) a wholly owned subsidiary of Above Food Corp., has completed the acquisition of a high capacity, value-added Grain & Protein Ingredient Processing Terminal located in Kindersley, Saskatchewan.  Effective February 22, 2021, the Kindersley Ingredient Unit was Open for Business, and on opening day were acquiring and processing the highest quality of chickpeas, lentils, peas, and durum for the Above protein ingredient B2B business.

The Kindersley Ingredient Processing Terminal located in Western Saskatchewan, is capable of processing and shipping up to 100,000 metric tonnes of value-added grains and protein ingredients.

Purely Canada is a vertically integrated company supplying whole foods and ingredients, from the vast and pristine lands of Western Canada to the tables of the world. Purely Canada is a recognized wholesale plant-based protein ingredient provider in Canada, with a vertically integrated agri-foods business, including Canada’s largest certified organic facility and Canada’s fifth largest inland grain terminal located southeast of Regina, Saskatchewan, railway infrastructure, private railcar fleet, and strategic farm acres, ensuring a best-in-class plant protein supply chain.

Purely Canada purchases, processes, transports, and merchandizes Identity Preserved Ingredients from their sales office locations in Regina and Saskatoon, Southern Alberta, and Southern Ontario to global customers in North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.

About Above Food and its wholly owned subsidiaries.

Above Food’s wholly owned subsidiaries, Above Food Brands Inc., and Purely Canada Foods Corp., are vertically integrated, high growth, seed-to-fork plant-based platforms that have well-established financial profiles stemming primarily from its business to-business (B2B) relationships, selling to over 300 customers across 35 countries.

On October 8, 2020, Purely Canada announced its merger with Above Food Brands Inc. (“Above Food”). Above Food is a plant protein food business that develops and distributes delicious, and densely nutritious plant-based alternatives to meat (Above Meat) and dairy (Above Dairy) through their proprietary Whole-Plant Protein Formulations. The first brand for this combined entity is a range of meat substitutes, Above Meat which will be quickly followed by Above Dairy, a product range that promises to redefine what good tastes like, in the alternative dairy space.

“What we’ve built is truly disruptive. The ability to have custody of these new proteins, including lentils, chickpeas, fava, peas and oats, from seed all the way through to the end consumers dinner plate, allows us to create nutrient density and superior functional performance across our business-to-business, Advanced Ingredient, and business-to-consumer lines of our business,” explains Lionel Kambeitz, Executive Chairman of Regina-based Above Food Corp.

Purely Canada and Above Food commits that its products will tell the whole story, from field to plate, ensuring that customers can trust that every bite is natural, good-for-them, and sustainably produced.

For additional company information, please visit the following sites:
https://purelycanada.ca/
https://abovefood.ca/

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Tyler West
Chief Executive Officer
Purely Canada Foods Corp.
[email protected]

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