{"id":19766,"date":"2020-10-05T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-part-of-group-investing-150m-in-sollio-cooperative-150689"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:15:35","slug":"caisse-part-of-group-investing-150m-in-quebec-based-agri-food-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/10\/05\/caisse-part-of-group-investing-150m-in-quebec-based-agri-food-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Caisse part of group investing $150M in Quebec-based agri-food company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/104150345_l-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"123rf_oticki\" title=\"Caisse part of group investing $150M in Quebec-based agri-food company\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 5, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Caisse&nbsp;de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec is part of a group investing $150 million in Quebec-based agri-food company Sollio Cooperative Group.<\/p>\n<p>The other investors include Rabobank Capital, a co-operative bank in the Netherlands, as well as two Quebec-based investment funds, the Fonds de solidarit\u00e9 FTQ and&nbsp;Fondaction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-in-co-investment-partnership-for-ventures-in-sustainable-agriculture-150168\">Caisse invests in sustainability, OMERS and Ontario Teachers\u2019 sell stake in utility<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSollio Cooperative Group plays a leading role in our agri-food sector,\u201d said Marc Cormier, executive vice-president and head of fixed income at the Caisse, in a press release. \u201cIts business model is built around companies that meet essential needs and have a clear economic impact on the whole of Quebec.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investment will go toward improving and modernizing production and product offerings, according to the release. \u201cWe\u2019re at the tail end of a period of major growth and this investment will help accelerate our optimization process by facilitating digitization and innovation,\u201d&nbsp;said Ga\u00e9tan Desroches,&nbsp;chief executive officer of Sollio. \u201c[It will also] maintain our leadership in agri-food and retail in Quebec and Canada and mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on our growth plans,\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-investing-in-european-nursing-home-company-150281\">Caisse investing in European nursing home company<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-part-of-group-investing-150m-in-sollio-cooperative-150689\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 5, 2020 The&nbsp;Caisse&nbsp;de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec is part of a group investing $150 million in Quebec-based agri-food company Sollio Cooperative Group. The other investors include Rabobank Capital, a co-operative bank in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}