Parrish & Heimbecker

Parrish and Heimbecker, Limited
Private
Industry Agriculture
Founded 1909
Founder W.L. Parrish
Norman Heimbecker
Headquarters Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Area served
 Worldwide
Number of employees
 1,500 (June 2010)
Website parrishandheimbecker.com
Original P&H signage, Coaldale, Alberta

Parrish & Heimbecker Limited is a Canadian grain company with about 1,500 employees across Canada and the northern United States. The company has several divisions including flour milling, feed milling, grain marketing, transportation and logistics.

It is a private, family-owned business founded in 1909. This Canadian-owned, vertically integrated business is one of the largest full-service grain-handling and crop-input supply companies in Canada. It is the largest Canadian-owned milling company in Canada, with animal nutrition, poultry farming and food-processing divisions in Western and Eastern Canada.

The company is an agent and accredited exporter for the Canadian Wheat Board.

In 2002, the company acquired a grain elevator at Dutton Siding, Manitoba from Agricore United. The elevator is located between Gilbert Plains and Grandview.[1]

History

Parrish and Heimbecker was begun in 1909 by William Parrish and Norman G. Heimbecker. Until 1918, the firm bought and sold grain on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, but did not operate grain elevators.

In 1918, P&H bought ten elevators from Louis Strong and Frederick Dowler, who were Calgary grain brokers. After buying more elevators, by 1920, P&H had 20 elevators.

Network of Canadian grain elevators and terminals

In 2011, P&H had approximately 32 grain elevators in Canada including twelve grain elevators in Ontario that handle a variety of Canadian agricultural products such as wheat, corn, barley, soybeans, oats, distillers grain', IP soybeans and navy beans.

References

  1. ↑ "Agricore United Sells Elevator To Parrish & Heimbecker". Resource News International. February 26, 2002. Retrieved November 25, 2008.
  • "Parrish and Heimbecker Grain Company". The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Retrieved November 25, 2008.
  • "P&H Expands Saskatchewan Presence". realagriculture.com. April 16, 2013.


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