As a member of the Canadian food industry and Manitoba's largest poultry producer, Granny’s is leading the charge towards fresher, locally-produced and more nutritionally-balanced food choices for you and your family.
Granny's Story - Yesterday
Granny’s was started more than 50 years ago by a small group of rural Manitoba farmers who wanted to ensure consistent high quality and fair pricing for the poultry they raised. By forming a cooperative together, these farmers were able to pool their resources, support their businesses and more effectively market their locally-raised chickens and turkeys. In the fifties, for many Manitoba farmers, cash was in short supply and raising turkeys was an effective way of meeting the needs of a growing family. These early farmers had the vision of developing a market for New York dressed turkey into the fast expanding post-war Winnipeg marketplace. They proceeded to establish the Blumenort Turkey Cooperative. While this venture only lasted a decade or so, it was their vision that laid the foundation for the way we do business today. In fact, Granny’s main production facility remains in the community today.
In the mid sixties Manitoba Dairy and Poultry Cooperative purchased the turkey facility from the Blumenort turkey producers. The facility underwent a large renovation, incorporating its own production, including chicken, into the plant. This larger co-operative brought with it commercial egg grading and hatching capability.
This arrangement lasted until 1979 when a mutual agreement between delegates was reached to separate along dairy and poultry lines. “Granny’s” was the corporate name chosen to represent this new co-operative; one of the logos that “Manco” had established for their poultry line of products.
More than 30 years later, Granny’s has grown from its humble beginnings of 17 million in sales to become known across Canada as a very reputable, competitive supplier of poultry products with sales reaching over 130 million. The company’s head office and state of the art hatchery are located in Winnipeg, Manitoba and its modern and large processing facility still stands in the village of Blumenort, not far from the site of the original turkey plant. We are grateful for those who came before us, those who faced the hardships of early farming and had the will, and the vision to work cooperatively.
