• Cost competitiveness, in areas
•  such as worker pay and benefit costs, overall operating costs, start-up capital costs, taxes—and generous R&D tax credits, making Ontario East one of the lowest cost food processing jurisdictions in the G7
• Workforce, with its high skills and productivity, its high loyalty and low turnover, and the training some members receive at the outstanding customizable food processing program offered by our local Loyalist College
• Location, with overnight delivery to 62% of Canadians and huge U.S. markets, well developed rail and road networks, and three efficient border crossings
• Support services, such as temperature controlled trucking and co-location of manufacturing and warehousing/distribution services, and strong economic partnerships between food manufacturers, post-secondary schools and local economic development offices
• Cost advantages:
  • World sugar prices and no sugar tariffs on finished products exported to the U.S.
  • Significant savings on imports of supply-managed food ingredients (dairy, poultry, eggs) used to prepare food products that are exported

Listen to this radio interview.  http://www.youtube.com/user/CountyofPrinceEdward#p/u/6/02tCS3a2g7U

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