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404 400 2016 population: 97,496 CANADA • LAKE HURON 10 year growth rate: 12.8% ONTARIO • 6 Kitchener- Toronto Waterloo 401 LAKE ONTARIO QEW 2 Hamilton • Industrial leases $4-$8 / net ft MICHIGAN BRANTFORD 403 Niagara Falls • Office leases $11-$18 / net ft2 Sarnia 24 Fort Erie 402 Bu alo 69 London 90 75 94 • Located on Highway 403 94 401 NEW YORK • 1 hour to Toronto Detroit LAKE ERIE Erie (100 km / 60 mi) Windsor 79 275 PENNSYLVANIA • 1.5 hours to Buffalo (140 km / 85 mi) 90 Toledo U.S.A. • 2.5 hours to Detroit Pittsburgh (275 km / 170 mi) 69 Cleveland OHIO • Local workforce of over 83,000 • Nearly 1.1 million in 50 km / 30 mi 1 day trucking 100 km / 60 Serviced by • Nearly 6.0 million in 125 km / 80 mi to 160 million mi to Toronto major CN customers Int’l Airport freight lines, and 60% of all and 35 km as well as VIA • 4 local post-secondary schools manufacturers / 20 mi to passenger • Over 4,000 local students in the USA and Hamilton Int’l rail and GO 17 universities in 125 km / 80 mi Canada Airport Transit buses • • 9 colleges in 125 km / 80 mi Mitsui High-tec (Canada) Inc.

We received Largest Industrial Employers considerable support from Brantford, who helped us select Company Staff Sector the site, provided us with a temporary office, Ferrero Canada Ltd./Ltée 900 Food Manufacturing and assisted us with the hiring process to staff our P&G / DHL 410 Warehouse Distribution operations here. We explored several areas in TreeHouse Private Brands 404 Food Manufacturing North America. Ultimately, we selected Brantford as Aspire Bakeries 385 Food Manufacturing a location for a number of reasons including the Apotex Pharmachem Inc. 320 Pharmaceutical fact that it is economically competitive and its location Mott Manufacturing Ltd. 320 Manufacturing is ideal which is crucial for our operation to grow. S. C. Johnson and Son, Ltd. 300 Consumer Products We are very appreciative Tigercat Industries Inc. 289 Manufacturing of the strong support we have received from our The Marco Corporation 267 Warehouse Distribution government partners including the Brantford Brant InStore 225 Manufacturing Economic Development and Tourism Department.

Yasunari Mitsui, President & Representative Director, Mitsui High-tec, Inc. Growth Sectors

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Recent Major Investments

Company Size Jobs Investment

Ferrero Canada Ltd./Ltée 48,500 sq. ft. 40 $70M Carnegie Building Holiday Inn Express & Wilfrid Laurier University 134,000 sq. ft. 50 $23.4M Suites; Home2 Suites Academic Conklin Place 34,700 sq. ft. 100 $5.5M Institutions Playacor Shops on Henry 25,600 sq. ft. 50 $3.2M

Mitsui High-tec 18 ac. $2.2M (Canada), Inc.

GIZEH Packaging N.A. Inc. 53,400 sq. ft. 10 $2.1M

Eastgate Business Park Vicano Developments Limited Brantford has been a win-win for us. Brantford just represented too many opportunities. The location is ideal. This is home for us. Brantford is now key to us. Harmony Square Downtown Brantford John Pavanel, President, Hematite Manufacturing Projected Employment Projected Population

80 180 Values in 000’s Values in 000’s $68,756 76 160 Average Household Income Brantford CMA (2016) 72 140 Source: Statistics Canada

68 120 4.3% Unemployment 64 100 Rate (Annual: 2019) Source: Statistics Canada 67.0 72.0 79.0 97.5 139.0 152.0 163.0 60 80 2031 2036 2041 2016 2031 2036 2041 $2.17/m2 Source: Province of Ontario, Places to Grow (2017) Water Rate (2020) $1.99/m2 Comparative Average House Prices Wastewater (2020) Source: City of Brantford Brantford $506,290

Cambridge $549,290 70 km / 44 mi Length of City Recreational Trails Kitchener Waterloo $580,000 Source: City of Brantford

Guelph $588,300

Hamilton-Burlington $656,400

Greater Toronto Area $865,200

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Source: Canadian Real Estate Association (March 2020) West Brant Neighbourhood

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