Media Advisory: GTA Food and Beverage Cluster Launch

TORONTO, April 23, 2015 /CNW/ - In a coordinated effort to sustain and grow the sector, Food & Consumer Products of Canada (FCPC), with the support of our partners, is launching the GTA Food and Beverage Cluster.

The food and beverage manufacturing sector employs over 60,000 people right here in the GTA. There are more people working in the sector in the GTA, than in any other region in North America, outside Los Angeles.

Through strategic partnerships and a focus on innovation and skills development, together we can make the GTA a world leader in food and beverage manufacturing

DATE:	Monday, April 27, 2015
TIME:	10:00 - 11:30 am
LOCATION:	George Brown College Centre for Hospitality & Culinary Arts 300 Adelaide St. E (between Jarvis and Sherbourne) Toronto, Ontario

WHO:

• George Brown College President Anne Sado
• FCPC, President & CEO Nancy Croitoru
• Toronto Region Board of Trade, President & CEO, Janet De Silva
• Mondelez Canada International President, Dan Magliocco
• Upper Crust, President, Carmela Serebryany-Harris
• Norm Beal, Executive Director, Food & Beverage Ontario

SOURCE Food and Consumer Products of Canada

Image with caption: "GTA Food and Beverage Cluster Logo (CNW Group/Food and Consumer Products of Canada)". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20150423_C8832_PHOTO_EN_14653.jpg

Image with caption: "GTA Food and Beverage Cluster Steering Committee (CNW Group/Food and Consumer Products of Canada)". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20150423_C8832_PHOTO_EN_14654.jpg

Adam Grachnik, Senior Director, Communications, [phone], [email protected]