Achieving Export Market Readiness with AgriAssurance
If your company signed a big contract next week, could you scale up to meet the new demand? What about if your new customer is in another country? Export market readiness is becoming more and more important for food and beverage manufacturers, especially if you want to take advantage of the government grant programs like […]
New Food Industry Grants Boost BC Businesses
In the coming weeks, food and beverage processors in British Columbia face a unique opportunity to quickly take advantage of new food industry grants from the provincial government. The BC Food Processing Growth Fund and the BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund together offer up to $380 million for cost-sharing initiatives aimed at enhancing the growth of […]
Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership Delivers New Funding for Food Manufacturers to Grow
New funding programs from the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) recently expanded the range of financial support available for food and beverage manufacturers. But with more programs, it also becomes a bit harder to know what’s out there for you. Funding also usually runs out well before the application window closes, adding time pressure […]
Access Funding to Nurture New Talent for Tech Adoption & Succession Planning
Canada’s food and beverage manufacturers are modernizing – whether those innovations are motivated by vision or heightening regulatory compliance that emphasizes modern technologies – and that process involves the pains of transition. We’ve profiled some of the national and provincial funding programs to ease adoption of new and improved systems before on this blog, but […]
BC Food Companies Can Leverage Traceability Funding to Adopt New Technology
BC just opened a new funding program for food businesses to improve traceability! Icicle is a pre-approved software vendor and our team can help you prepare and submit your application.