Fight Against the Spread of COVID-19: Temporary Closure of the Olymel Pork Processing Plant in Yamachiche

March 30, 2020 Olymel

In collaboration with the Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec Integrated University Health and Social Services Centre (CIUSSS MCQ) public health department, Olymel management is announcing the temporary closure of the hog slaughter and cutting plant in Yamachiche for a period of 14 days.

COVID-19: Olymel Announces Measures to Support its Processing Plant Workers and Feed the Country

March 25, 2020 Olymel

Due to the gravity of the situation and the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis, Olymel is announcing support measures that will apply to its facilities in Quebec and the rest of Canada in order to support the efforts of its employees and continue to supply food to the citizens affected by the current health crisis.

La Coop fédérée and its Olymel and Sollio Agriculture Divisions Will be Able to Proceed With the Acquisition of All Assets of F. Ménard

November 29, 2019 Olymel l.p.

Management of La Coop fédérée, its Olymel and Sollio Agriculture divisions and F. Ménard had jointly announced on July 9, 2019, an agreement to acquire all the assets of family company F. Ménard in the pork and milling sector. This transaction, whose amount will not be disclosed, is expected to close on January 6, 2020, once all the provisions of the agreement between the parties have been fulfilled.

La Coop fédérée and its Olymel and Sollio Agriculture Divisions Reached an Agreement with F. Ménard

July 10, 2019 La Coop fédérée

Management of La Coop fédérée, its Olymel and Sollio Agriculture divisions and F. Ménard announced today an agreement to acquire all the assets of Ange-Gardien company F. Ménard, in Montérégie, Quebec.

Olymel’s new plant in Yamachiche: Lucyporc’s Employees Join Olymel’s

April 23, 2019 Olymel

After an investment of over $120 million and two years of intensive work that modernized, completely renovated and doubled the area of the pork processing plant of ATRAHAN, an Olymel division in Yamachiche, 351 Lucyporc employees joined the 556 Olymel employees today. In other words, it is D-Day for Olymel’s new pork slaughterhouse and cutting plant, which will employ a total of more than 1 000 people and is the culmination of the project announced in August 2016 as part of the business partnership between Olymel and Groupe Robitaille.