A corporate search indicates that P+H Inc. may have taken a
financial interest in Gray Ridge Eggs Inc.
Alan Heimbecker and William S. Parrish, two of the
principals of P+H, have been directors of Gray Ridge Eggs Inc. since Nov. 27,
2010.
Heimbecker, who lives in Hanover where he runs New Life
Mills, did not respond to repeated telephone calls to explain what, if any,
financial interest P+H has in Gray Ridge.
P+H stands for Parrish and Heimbecker which has a huge
corporate presence in Ontario and on the Prairies.
Gray Ridge was spun out of L.H. Gray and Son Ltd. and is
Canada’s second-largest egg-grading business and one of the largest egg-farming
businesses in Ontario.
It is also a partner in the dominant egg-grading business in
British Columbia.
In addition to New Life Mills, which is involved in both
flour and feed milling, P+H owns the Butterball turkey processing business,
Cook’s Elevators, bought Hayhoe in 2007, recently built a grain elevator at
Shantz Station, between Kitchener and Guelph, owns elevators at Wyoming,
Cambridge (Dover Mills), Glencoe, Dutton, Centralia, Winchester, Hensall,
Trenton, Kerwood and Denfield, owns half of Golden Valley Farms of Arthur, a
further-processing plant mainly for turkey, Riverdale Transport of Elmira, a
grain terminal at Owen Sound, trading offices in Toronto, Winnipeg and
Vancouver, Crawford Turkey, Webb Broiler Chicken Farm, Fisher Poultry,
Milverton Egg Farm and Newridge Eggs.
They bought elevators at Goderich and Port Colbourne last year.
They bought elevators at Goderich and Port Colbourne last year.
It has elevators and mills across the Prairies.
In addition to Heimbecker and Parrish, the directors of Gray
Ridge Eggs Inc. are president and secretary William Gray, vice-president Scott
Brookshaw and Michael Walsh.
John Leitch is the chief financial officer.
