La Coop fédérée, an agri-food cooperative with operations across Canada, has announced that it has purchased Standard Nutrition Canada (SNC), a Winnipeg-based company offering animal nutrition products and services, to integrate their activities into Western provinces.

Through this deal, La Coop fédérée's agri-business division will extend its animal nutrition activities that are already well established in Québec and the Maritimes. The division is also already present in Western Canada, in the crop production sector through its network of Agrico retailers.

"Standard Nutrition's top-of-the-line products and service are at par with our high standards in terms of quality and customer relationship," said Sébastien Léveillé, executive agri-business vice-president of La Coop fédérée. "We also share the same values when it comes to responsibility and solidarity toward the producers that we serve, in order to tailor our service to their needs. Furthermore, their strong presence in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba makes them a partner of choice to pursue our growth plan in Canada. We believe that by combining the findings from our world-class research program to Standard Nutrition's personalized approach and highest level of expertise, we will deliver even more value and innovation to our customers."

Standard Nutrition Canada's key management and sales teams will remain in position.

"For the past decade, working under the Standard Nutrition USA umbrella has allowed our company to become an integral part of the Western Canadian protein supply chain, recognized for its extremely high-touch, consultative sales approach that leverages the technical and operational expertise of our best-in-class team of nutrition consultants" said Jason McNaughton, president and general manager of Standard Nutrition Canada. "Partnering with La Coop fédérée, a true Canadian Ag Industry powerhouse, is now the occasion to kick-start our growth plan for the decade to come, with the mutual goal of supporting Canadian agricultural producers."

Establishments included in the sale are:

Feed processing and grain-handling facilities and retail store in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Retail store and warehouse in Brandon, Manitoba
Premix facility, warehouse and retail store in Lethbridge, Alberta
Retail stores, offices and warehouses in Red Deer, AB, and Swiftcurrent, SK.

U.S.-based Standard Nutrition assets and activities are excluded from the transaction.

Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.