OTTAWA — A Canadian Islamic financial institution is launching Canada’s first “halal-approved” credit card this month and will also offer it to US Muslims by year end, its president told AFP on Tuesday.
Over 30 speakers shared their insights into one of the world’s fastest growing financial industries as experts from Malaysia, Singapore, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, UK and Italy all spoke on the huge potential of Islamic finance globally and in Canada. Senior representatives from four of the five big Canadian banks attended the conference, as did representatives from the Ontario Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry of Finance.
The Usury-Free Association of North America (UFANA) introduces a definitive strategic event for the industry where ideas, intelligence and relationships really make a difference.UFANA Conference 2010: The Growth and Potential of Islamic Finance (UFANA 2010) focuses on the key business drivers of the Islamic finance industry. In scope, coverage and experience it is the only event of its kind in North America.
David Craig got no hits, so he quit his catering career, started a new business, and now he’s served Sundance and the Super Bowl. “We have mobile kitchens that can prepare kosher or halal food, or other diets. It’s more than just cooking. Food is cultural and you have to adapt.”
VANCOUVER, B.C. — Premium Brands Holdings Corp. (TSX:PBH) says it has
acquired Vancouver-based South Seas Meats Ltd., a distributor of Halal
specialty meats that will help expand Premium’s portfolio of ethnic
foods. Premium Brands, which has about 25,000 customers in Western
Canada and Washington State, paid about $2.1 million for South Sea
Meats, which had annual sales of about $10 million. Ahsan
Razak, the founder and operator of South Sea Meats, will join the
management team of Premium Brands.
A CANADA-based pharmaceutical company is keen to build a Brunei
facility that will make halal pharmaceutical products for the Muslim
world, the High Commissioner of Canada yesterday said during a new year celebration held at the commissioner’s residence
yesterday, Wendell Sanford said the project could cost US$12 million,
but added the figure is still not confirmed.
Campbells Canada launches a selection of Halal-certified products.
Jasmine Mediterranean Foods’ warehouse in East Vancouver is piled
high with boxes of delicious foods from the Mediterranean: dates,
olives, olive oil, couscous, tahini and more. It’s the culmination of
around 15 years of hard work by Moussa Mohaidly, a Lebanese immigrant
who built this importing and wholesaling business up from scratch.
Salam,
who moved to Canada from the Palestinian Territories five years ago,
says he sank $14,000 into menus and signs for his restaurant called ‘McFalafel’, which
serves halal shawarma, shisk taouk and, of course, falafel, and
registered with the city. He didn’t know there was a problem until two
months ago, when McDonald’s lawyers sent him a letter asking him to
change his restaurant name.
Given Brunei’s leadership in the establishment of Halal food and
pharmaceutical standards, Mr Wendell Sanford, High Commissioner of Canada to Brunei
Darussalam, said, Canadian firms are looking
closely at Brunei as a logical location to both market and manufacture
Halal food and medicinal-products.
Are you ready to give up electrical stunning? You could have no
choice. Yvonne Vizzier Thaxton from www.meatingplace.com attended the Annual meeting of the European Branch
of World Poultry Science’s Poultry Welfare Conference, and this is what she heard when she was there, and her view on it.
Sodexo Canada provides dining services globally in college, corporate,
government and healthcare facility cafeterias, as well as sports
arenas, retirement community dining rooms and a number of other venues.
As the executive chef at Sodexo Canada, Suman Roy has a front-row seat
to North American consumer preferences when it comes to protein
choices. Meatingplace asked him to share his insights.
