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Agropur Cooperative is a Canadian company headquartered in Granby, Quebec, Canada. A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) is an association of persons who join together to carry on an economic activity of mutual benefit, in an egalitarian fashion. ... A company in the broadest sense is an aggregation of people who stay together for a common purpose. ... Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are concentrated. ... For the canton see Granby, Quebec (canton) Granby is a Ville (city) in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal on Lac Boivin. ...


Agropur sells dairy products under its own Natrel division, an industrial division, fine cheese division and with Ultima Foods Inc. Dairy products are generally defined as foodstuffs produced from milk. ...


Agropur and Natrel came into the national spotlight in January 2005 after a group of Torontonians became ill after drinking contaminated chocolate milk. These people filed a class action lawsuit against the companies. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in January • 29 Ephraim Kishon • 25 Philip Johnson • 23 Johnny Carson • 22 Parveen Babi • 20 Jan Nowak-Jeziorański • 17 Virginia Mayo • 17 Zhao Ziyang • 15 Ruth Warrick • 14 Rudolph Moshammer Recent deaths Ongoing events • Tsunami relief... }|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Official Flag]]|Coat Image=[[Image:{{{Coat Image}}}|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Coat of Arms]]}} {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Diversity Our Strength {{Canadian City/Location Image is:{{{Location Image Type}}}|[[Image:{{{Location Image}}}|thumbnail|250px|City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Location. ... The Lachine Canal, in Montreal, is badly polluted Pollution is the release of harmful environmental contaminants, or the substances so released. ... Chocolate milk is a drink concocted from milk, cocoa (often processed with alkali), sweeteners (usually sugar, dextrose, or high fructose corn syrup), and sometimes other ingredients including starch, salt, carrageenan, and artificial flavoring. ... In law, a class action is an equitable procedural device used in litigation for determining the rights of and remedies, if any, for large numbers of people whose cases involve common questions of law and fact. ...



External link:

  • Agropur Cooperative official website (http://www.natrel.ca/english/agropur/splash.html)

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Agropur Co-operative is Canada’s largest dairy co-operative and has a membership of over 4,300 dairy farmers, and it has 3,000 employees.
Agropur has purchased Island Farms in order to expand into the West and have indicated that Island Farms will remain operating as usual.
Agropur will provide Island Farms with the opportunity to be more competitive in the marketplace and sustainable in the long run.
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