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F2 EDMONTON JOURNALB U S I N E S STUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2005
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A G R I B U S I N E S S
Centre Ice
Joanne IrelandIn Journal Sports
World champ of the lentils
The town of Davidson, Sask., (popu-lation: 1,117) has earned a place on theCanadian map for several reasons.
It’s themidway point betweenRegina,Saskatoon and Moose Jaw.
It’s the siteof the world’s largest coffeepot.
Davidsonis also thehometownofMu-radAl-Katib, theman whohas put Cana-da — and its lentils — on the interna-tional map.
As president andCEOofSaskcanPulseTrading of Regina, which was namedSaskatchewan business of the year in2004 by the Saskatchewan ChamberofCommerce,Al-Katibhas overseen thiscountry’s development into the world’slargest processor andexporter oflentils.
That represents more than 900,000tonnes annually, of which 98 per centis produced in Saskatchewan.
Furthermore, he has done this in justthree years by forging a public and pri-vate partnership, which includes thefederal and provincial governments aswellas theTurkishfirm,ArbelPulseandGrainCompany,BASFCanada,and thefarmers themselves. And in the mostCanadianof ways,hehas helped tobuildregionalagribusiness diversity throughhis own diverse, multicultural roots.
“Growing up in Davidson, I playedhockey and curled and played baseballlikeeveryoneelsein town,” says Al-Kat-ib, whose father, a doctor, emigrated tothe community from Turkey in 1965.“Because I was born here, I could neverreally understand why my mother in-sisted that all of us also learn to speakTurkish.”
Thanks to his mother’s languagelessons — rather thanhis on-iceprowess— Al-Katib was ready when Arbel, al-ready the largest customer for Canadi-an lentils, decided to make a direct andlocal investment inprocessing thempri-or to export.
“I had the right experience to get in-volved,but Ialso spoke thelanguageandunderstood the culture,” he explains.“That gave them theextraconfidence togoahead, tofeel they communicateeas-ily with a local who also knew wherethey were coming from.”
The boom in lentil crops over the pastseveral years is a function of severalthings: international demand, a desireto produce a commodity that is lessvolatile inprice than wheat, thedrive toavoid a price-fixing, central marketingagency such as the SaskatchewanWheat Board,and theneed to rotate tra-ditional crops with ones that restore ni-trogen levels to the soil, which lentilplants do.
Although poor growing conditionsaffected the quality of last year’s lentilcropand the strongCanadiandollar hasnibbledaway at profit margins recently,Al-Katib remains bullish on the outlookfor Saskatchewanproducers, whohavenow devoted more than two millionacres of land to lentil production.
Al-Katib’s optimism is based on thecontinuing shift fromgreen to redlentils,crops whichcommandapremiumpriceon international markets, and ongoinginvestment in the development of newseeds and refined varieties.
The farmers themselves are fundingpart of this process by paying one percent of their gross revenues in a “checkoff” that goes directly to researchandde-velopment through the SaskatchewanPulse Growers in Saskatoon.
“Everyone always challenges the roleof government in these initiatives,” Al-Katibconcedes.“But this is amodel thatshows exactly why this sort of partner-shipcan work.We’veactually managedto commercialize public policy.”
Henotes theprocessingfacility built inRegina two years ago to peel, split andpolish local lentils, has added about 40per cent to themarket valueof thecrops.For Saskcan’s business model to con-tinue working, however, the venturemust constantly race to remain theworld’s lowest cost producer of lentils,principally because almost all othergrowers aregeographically closer to themajor markets in the Middle East, In-dia and Europe.
Soaring fuel costs have been a recenthurdlefor Saskcanbecauseall thelentilsmust be containerized and shipped byrail from a landlocked region to inter-national ports.
The transportation costs alone com-prise about 20 per cent of the marketcost of Canadian lentils.
That compares withabout a sevenpercent transportation cost component inthe price of rival Turkish lentils. Anoth-er challengeis todeal withcustomers ofdistinct cultures andlanguages in 33 dif-ferent countries.
“In theMiddleEast, understanding the
culturalelement is essential.There,busi-ness is built on patience and relation-ships,” says Al-Katib. “It’s equally im-portant to be sensitive to local pace andpreferences.”
For example, in the Middle East,bright, shiny red lentils are consideredthe most valuable, while in Europe, adull finish is more popular. That meanssomeofSaskcan’s product is highly pol-ished with oil, while other batches areuntouched.
Al-Katib also emphasizes one power-ful advantage his company has is itsCanadian identity.
“Canadians are often oblivious to thefact how powerful this country’s repu-tationis ininternationalmarkets.We’reseen as fair and reliable and honest,”he says. “They just love Canadians outthere.”
And they probably don’t even knowabout the coffee pot in Davidson.
D e i r d r e M c M u r d y i s c o - h o s t o f G l o b a lT V ’s MoneyWise p r o g ra m
C a n We s t N e w s S e r v i c e
Saskcan Pulse Trading commands 98 per cent of Canada’s exports
REGINA LEADER-POST, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE
Murad Al-Katib, president of SaskcanPulse Trading Inc.
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Sideways nudge sendspinot noir sales soaring
Th e A s s o c i a t e d P re s sa n d Th e C a n a d i a n P re s s
BERKELEY
Sideways,themovieabouttwo guys, a road trip and awhole lot of wine, may besending pinot noir sales up-ward.
Pinot noir, the relativelyobscure red winebelovedbythe movie’s snobbish butsweet character Miles, hasbeen experiencing a gentleupswing in popularity forsome years. But the num-bers jumped sharply afterSidewaysopenedlast fall,ac-cording to supermarket,drug and liquor store salesdata from ACNielsen.
Pinot noir sales reached370,000 cases for the 12weeks ending Jan. 15, upnearly 16 per cent from the
same period a year ago, ac-cording to an ACNielsenanalysis tobe releasedMon-day.
Danny Brager, vice-presi-dent of ACNielsen BeverageAlcoholTeam, saidinanewsrelease that it’s difficult toquantify the movie’s exactimpact but “it looks likemore than a coincidencethat this varietal’s sales havebeen stronger than eversince the movie’s release.”
Vintners and wine storeowners say they’ve definite-ly noticed the Sideways ef-fect.
In themovie,Miles,playedby Paul Giamatti, rhap-sodizes about pinot noir, achallenging grape to workwith. In Canada, it’s grownin theOkanaganareaofB.C.and in southern Ontario.
Planet Organic drawsNewfound Health into orbit
EDMONTON / Health-food store ownerPlanet Organic Corp. has signed a dealto buy the 17-store Newfound Healthchain in Alberta for an undisclosedamount, the company said Monday.
TheNewfoundchainwilloperateun-der Planet Organic’s Sangster division.NewfoundHealth’spresidentAzimVeljiwill remain to provide consulting andmanagement assistance to Planet Or-ganic (TSXV:POH) during the transi-tion, the company said in a release.
Terms of the agreement will be dis-closed upon closing the acquisition,which was subject to regulatory ap-proval, Planet Organic said.
Planet Organic recently acquiredSangster’s Health Centres, a 35-storechain with franchised and corporateoutlets across Canada.
PlanetOrganicoperates largenaturalfood supermarkets in Edmonton, Vic-toriaandCalgary,PortCoquitlam,B.C.,andHalifax,andachainofsupplementand market stores across Canada.
Itssharesclosedat$1.06,up11cents,on the TSX Venture Exchange
Cogeco taps Telus,Cisco for phone lines
MONTREAL / Cogeco Cable Inc. hasstruckdealswithTelusCorp.andCiscoSystems to provide services and tech-nology so the cable TV operator canlaunchresidentialdigitalphoneservicelater this year.
The cable TV company said Mondaythat its residential voice service will bebasedonnetwork technologyprovidedby Cisco Systems and will connect toother phone and long distance net-works through Telus.
Cogeco expects to have its serviceavailable by this summer. Other cableTV operators, including Shaw, Rogersand Videotron, have also launched orplan tolaunchdigitalphoneserviceviacable TV wires.
“With this announcement, we aredemonstrating that Cogeco Cable is atthe forefront of communications inno-vations to serve our customers withcost-effective and dynamic services,”saidLouisAudet,presidentandCEOofMontreal-based Cogeco Cable.
The Montreal company is Canada’sfourth-biggest cable TV operator, afterRogersCable,ShawandVideotron,butis the second-largest cable operator inbothOntarioandQuebecandhasmorethan 880,000 customers.
Cogeco Cable, with more than 1,200employees, is a subsidiary of CogecoInc. (TSX:CGO.SV), which holds 39.3per cent of its stock.
Cogeco Inc. also owns radio and TVstations in Quebec.
In Monday trading on the TorontoStock Exchange, Cogeco Cable shares(TSX:CCA.SV) were unchanged at$25.60.
Shell plans to trimWaterton plants, jobs
LETHBRIDGE / Shell has announced itplanstodownsizeitsWatertoncomplexin southern Alberta as part of a projectto increase efficiency.
Thecompanysaysthedownsizingwillbe part of an overall program where itwill close two sulphur recovery plants,replace a tail-gas cleanup unit, and in-stall a smaller incinerator at a total costof $70 million.
The move will mean job losses for atleastsomeof theplant’s140employeesand40contractworkers,butplantman-agement can’t say how many will beaffected.
KevinMay,Shell’smanagerof theWa-terton region, said the news isn’t a sur-prise.
Hesaid thecompanyhasbeen talkingabout scaling back the facility sincethe late 1980s.
Shellsaid thedecisionwill increasein-dustry competitiveness, reduce green-house-gas emissions and ensure long-term economic viability.
Acetex reports loss as itawaits takeover OK
VANCOUVER / Acetex Corp. has report-ed a loss of $8.4 million US on sales of$135.7 million in the fourth quarter,ahead of a $600-million takeover byCelanese Corp.
Acetex, which reports in U.S. dollars,said Monday that full-year sales of itsacetyls products and specialty polymersand films came to $530.7 million, witha net loss of $7.1 million.
The results included $4 million infourth-quarter non-operatingcosts aris-ing from the transaction with Celaneseannounced in October.
The company’s security holders ap-proved the Celanese takeover lastmonth,but the transaction remains sub-ject to regulatory approvals.
Acetex, with its head office in Van-couver andplants inEdmonton,Franceand Spain, said its fourth-quarter salesof $135.7 million were up from $114.4million a year earlier. The $8.4-millionloss compares with a year-ago loss of$7.9million.Assets stoodat $495.8mil-lion, against liabilities of $423 million.