An Economic and Statistical Profile of Atlantic Canada's Food Manufacturing Industry /

March 2015 Atlantic Provinces Economic Council 4.  An Economic and Statistical Profile of Atlantic Canada’s Food Manufacturing Industry Section 1 - Introduction The purpose of this report is to provide the Atlantic regional office of Industry Canada with an economic and statistical profile of the Atlantic region’s food manufacturing industry, focusing on key performance metrics (e.g., GDP, exports [...] March 2015 Atlantic Provinces Economic Council 5.  An Economic and Statistical Profile of Atlantic Canada’s Food Manufacturing Industry Section 2 – Economic and Statistical Profile Overview of Food Manufacturing Economic Performance The economic indicators analyzed in this section include manufacturing shipments, GDP, employment, average weekly wages, number of business locations, and internationa [...] March 2015 Atlantic Provinces Economic Council 7.  An Economic and Statistical Profile of Atlantic Canada’s Food Manufacturing Industry Newfoundland and Labrador had the largest drop in food manufacturing employment (- 5,400 jobs) over the period 1999 to 2014 accounting for 41% of the 13,200 Atlantic region food manufacturing jobs lost over this period. [...] Seafood Product Manufacturing Seafood product manufacturing dominates food manufacturing in the Atlantic region, accounting for 41% of the region’s food manufacturing real GDP in 2013 and 78% of the region’s food manufacturing international exports in 2014. [...] An Economic and Statistical Profile of Atlantic Canada’s Food Manufacturing Industry This reliance on seafood product manufacturing may explain why Atlantic Canada’s food manufacturing sector did not fare as well as Canada’s food manufacturing sector over the last decade.