Ontario food processors: access SODP before Dec 22, 2009

Strong Ontario food and beverage processors – particularly those located in communities that have been hardhit by the recent economic downturn – are encouraged to apply to the Southern Ontario Development Program (SODP). SODP’s food and beverage initiative includes a $20 million fund of federal interest-free loans for upgrades, expansions, or modernization of commercial food and beverage production facilities, or fund a strategy to access new markets.

Ontario Food and Beverage Processors have until Dec 22, 2009 to apply for part of the Federal Government’s $20 million Southern Ontario Development Program fund. http://southernontario.gc.ca/eic/site/723.nsf/eng/00160.html