Maple Leaf Foods reported a profit of $53.5-million in its fourth quarter compared with a loss of $9.3-million a year earlier.
Sales for the quarter totalled $1.24-billion, up from $1.19-billion in the last three months of 2023.
The company said prepared foods sales were up by 4.6 per cent, prepared meats up by 6.5 per cent, pork up by 3.5 per cent and poultry up by 1.8 per cent. Plant protein sales were down by 10.3 per cent.