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Who is Louis Dreyfus Canada?
Louis Dreyfus has a 60-year presence in Canada as a major exporter of Canadian
grains and oilseeds, with an extensive base of domestic and overseas customers. Louis
Dreyfus' network of new high-throughput terminals across Western Canada
offers direct value-added service to western Canadian producers. In May 2000,
Louis Dreyfus Canada launched www.louisdreyfus.ca, the first Western Canadian
website to provide online contracting for grain using real-time grain market
feeds, allowing prairie producers to contract their grain with any of eleven Louis
Dreyfus grain terminals.
What is different about the new terminals Louis Dreyfus is constructing?
All new Louis Dreyfus terminals and grain storage facilities are steel bin construction,
rather than traditional concrete construction. When required, steel bin
elevators can cut the time of new construction in half, with a terminal
being ready for business within five to six months, rather than the one
year or more it usually takes to build concrete elevators.
Why is Louis Dreyfus offering condo storage?
Condo storage is a cost-effective way for producers to haul direct from field to
market. It's a great way to manage risk and take advantage of market opportunities - when there's
a demand for grain, it's already on the rail line. Louis Dreyfus terminals have the
ability to expand total capacity up to 60,000 metric tonnes, with condo storage included
at time of construction or effortlessly added later. The need for condo storage at each
terminal location is based on local producer demand.
Who is the parent company of Louis Dreyfus Canada?
Louis Dreyfus Canada Ltd. is part of the Louis Dreyfus Group, which has its headquarters
in Paris, France, plus 75 offices in 35 countries around the world. Besides
an investment in the grain business in Western Canada and the United States,
the Group also manages worldwide trading and merchandising of various agricultural
and oilseed commodities, oilseed crushing and refining, citrus processing
and petroleum refining and marketing. The Group has been in business since
1851, and has been active in the Canadian grain marketing business since
1941.
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