C&C Packing

C&C operated as a fresh and frozen meat supplier — beef, pork, poultry, veal — with its in-house processing arm Premier Meat Packers handling further-processed product (portion control, ground programs, private-label SKUs). Customers were retail grocery chains, foodservice distributors, hotel and restaurant operators, and further-processors across Quebec, Ontario, and the Maritimes.^[2][3]

Public filings at the time of acquisition described C&C as headquartered in Saint-Léonard, Québec, with the combined operation generating roughly $200M of annual revenue prior to the transaction.^[4]

Premium Brands disclosed the deal as a cash-and-stock acquisition with a contingent component tied to post-closing performance — a structure consistent with PBH's broader acquisition pattern over 2014–2018, when it consolidated regional specialty food platforms across Canada and the United States.^[1][3]

The Cons family did not stay on as long-term operators of the asset under PBH ownership, but transition was conducted in continuity: existing supply relationships, employees, and the St-Léonard footprint were preserved into the successor organization.

Proceeds from the 2016 transaction were reinvested into two distinct platforms: the continued build-out of JOIA, the family's multi-family residential portfolio (begun in 2011), and the long-dated holdings that would later become Cons Properties. Neither platform was financed externally to scale.

The 2023 federal incorporation of Consco Foods Inc. later returned the family to the food sector — explicitly as a successor platform to the operating discipline first proven inside C&C.

C&C was held for 42 years and sold to a public strategic buyer with the capacity to scale it further. The lesson the family carried forward — patience compounds; the asset the market eventually wants is the one the patient operator has already built — became the explicit thesis for every subsequent platform.