YOUR SUCCESS IS ROOTED IN OUR SOIL. INVESTMENT PROFILE INVESTMENT PROFILE OUR VALUE TABLE OF PROPOSITION CONTENTS Home to a growing cluster of agri-food manufacturing operations 4 STRATEGIC LOCATION KEY COMMUNITY CONTACTS ranging from 30 to 350 employees, Portage la Prairie is immersed 6 LABOUR DEMOGRAPHICS EVE O LEA RY in agricultural production with optimal access to both resources, as 7 Workforce Development Exec ut ive Director well as major transportation routes to get your product to market. Porta g e Regional Economic Development This, combined with Manitoba’s competitive hydro electric utility 8 THRIVING AG SECTOR E -mail: e [email protected] rates and abundant capacity of water for the food manufacturing Oce: 204-856-5000 10 VALUE-ADDED PROCESSING M obile: 2 0 4 -870-9050 sector, create an ideal location for your next development. 11 RECENT INVESTMENT NET TIE NEU DORF Chief Ad ministrative Ocer 12 MANITOBA ADVANTAGE Rural Municipality of Portag e la Prairie 14 Construction Costs / Tax Rates E-mail: n neudorf@rmofpo rtage.ca Phone: 204-857-3821 16 WE’RE READY FOR YOU 16 Inventory of Available Land/Buildings NATHA N PETO City M a nager 18 SOUTHPORT AEROSPACE City o f P ortage l a P rairie CENTRE INC. E-mail: n [email protected] Phone: 2 04-239-8336 KINELM BROOKES General Manager Portage La Prairie Planning District E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 204-239-8345 YOUR SUCCESS IS ROOTED IN OUR SOIL 3 INVESTMENT PROFILE STRATEGIC LOCATION Trans-Canada Highway PROXIMITY TO WINNIPEG CN Railway WE ARE THE GEOGRAPHIC Manitoba’s capital city, with a population of more than 709,000, sits within the radius of CENTRE OF NORTH AMERICA CP Railway Portage la Prairie’s trade area. Situated just ituated at the geographic center 85 kilometres away, Winnipeg is close enough Sof Canada (Latitude: 49.972321, for a cross-pollination of commuters who live Longitude: -98.290325). in one city and work in the other. Our placement with Trans-Canada Highway Winnipeg is home to North America’s largest access, close proximity to Winnipeg, and our tri-modal port, and goods can reach anywhere immersion in the agricultural hotbed of the region in the world within 48 hours. provides multiple advantages for investors. Rail Access: PROXIMITY TO THE UNITED STATES Portage la Prairie holds the distinction as the Located just north of the American border YOUR SUCCESS IS ROOTED IN OUR SOIL only site in Canada where the Canadian National at North Dakota, Portage la Prairie is situated and Canadian Pacific railways converge. 187 kilometres (116 miles) from Pembina, North Dakota – the nearest full service border crossing. Proximity by Air: Fibre optic routes situate us as the most We are within one hour of Richardson International direct Canadian link servicing the U.S. midwest, airport (Winnipeg) and home to a private airstrip including major markets such as Chicago (Southport) that can accommodate local and Minneapolis. commercial air traffic. PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MANITOBA, CANADA MANITOBA, LA PRAIRIE, PORTAGE 4 5 INVESTMENT PROFILE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT evelopment of a skilled workforce is another area where Portage la Prairie demonstrates LABOUR Dits strength. Both through an enhanced focus on trades development in secondary school as well as a slate of post-secondary programs offered locally, the needs of industry both today DEMOGRAPHICS and into the future are being considered. Red River College Portage Learning & Literacy Centre s one of the primary urban POPULATION Headquartered in Winnipeg, Red River College has Addressing the education needs of both newcomers a campus in the City of Portage la Prairie. Under the to Canada as well as to those adults in the community hubs along the east-west Source: Statscan Census A direction of Regional Campus Manager, Guy Moffat, looking to upgrade their skills in order to secure Last Updated: February 2017 corridor of the Trans-Canada the school strives to be responsive to the needs of meaningful employment, the Portage Learning & 21,667 2016 local industry. An example of this is the upcoming Literacy Centre is working with a focus to ensure Highway in Manitoba, Portage la 20,763 2011 introduction of a Certificate in Value-Added Food that everyone that completes their program will find Prairie’s trade area is a wide one. 20,429 2006 Manufacturing program slated for introduction in the gainful employment. Their offerings include English This is reflective of the labour 20 21 22 as a Second Language training, high school diploma (Thousands of people) near future. Additionally, the College offers a platform pool as well which sees only for standard and customized corporate to address completion as well as workplace soft skills development to prepare their students for a 4.7% unemployment rate on the training needs of local business and industry. LABOUR FORCE BY INDUSTRY any workplace environment. a job pool of 11,255 jobs. A recent Source: Statistics Canada Assiniboine Community College survey identified that while Last Updated: November 2017 Portage Collegiate Institute Health Care Brandon’s Assiniboine Community College has 87% of workers reside in the City 19.3% Career Development Program: Beginning in Grade 11.5% Retail teaching space in Portage la Prairie, housed in the or municipality of Portage, 13% nine, the high school education promotes a greater 9.2% Public Administration Southport airport and commercial properties just understanding of student skills and interests to allow are commuting here from nine 8.7% Manufacturing three kilometres South of the City. Currently focused 8.5% Education for a customized education in their final three years on nurse education, ACC has a particular agriculture other jurisdictions daily within 8.3% Accommodation that directs a student down their desired career path. a one hour radius. 7.3% Construction focus in its offerings on their main Campus in Brandon This includes an extensive slate of skilled trades 4.5% Other which could be explored for workforce needs. programs to ensure a strong resource of these skills 4.0% Finance in the future. Through the curriculum, the school has 3.9% Transportation partnered with local industry to provide on-the-job 3.3% Agriculture 2.7% Administration apprenticeship opportunities with local employers POPULATION DISTRIBUTION BY AGE 2.7% Wholesale to ensure that incoming workers to the labour pool Source: Statistics Canada 2.2% Professional Services are fully aware of the opportunities to ply their Last Updated: May 2017 1.3% Information trade in this market. 930 Ages 0-4 1.0% Arts & Entertainment 0.9% Utilities 860 Ages 5-9 NEW INITIATIVE: Edge Factor 810 Ages 10-14 0.8% Real Estate 830 Ages 15-19 Beginning in 2018, Portage Regional Economic 805 Ages 20-24 LABOUR FORCE BY OCCUPATION Development is partnering with area high schools 885 Ages 25-29 and the Portage Learning & Literacy Centre to sponsor Source: Statistics Canada YOUR SUCCESS IS ROOTED IN OUR SOIL 765 Ages 30-34 Last Updated: November 2017 EdgeFactor – a video platform that helps to illustrate 705 Ages 35-39 the career possibilities for students of all interests – 715 Ages 40-44 23.1% Sales & Services with a specific emphasis on the present and future 760 Ages 45-49 16.3% Trades & Transport 920 Ages 50-54 15.4% Education, Law & Government needs in manufacturing and the importance of STEM 980 Ages 55-59 12.7% Business & Finance (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) 835 Ages 60-64 10.6% Health courses in school. This three year investment in a pilot 700 Ages 65-69 9.8% Management program is intended to ensure a better prepared entry 585 Ages 70-74 5.2% Manufacturing level workforce for industry. 430 Ages 75-79 3.7% Sciences 330 Ages 80-84 1.9% Natural Resources A secondary component of this platform allows 445 Ages 85+ 1.4% Art & Sports businesses to plug in to promote the slate of careers available and pro-actively identify the qualifications PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MANITOBA, CANADA MANITOBA, LA PRAIRIE, PORTAGE required for future hires. 6 7 INVESTMENT PROFILE THRIVING MANITOBA MANITOBA’S PRODUCTION STATISTICS Agricultural food and manufacturing are Manitoba produces a diversity of commodities AG SECTOR key to Manitoba’s economy that are key to further processing: • We produce $4.5 billion in processed foods • about 6% of Canada’s barley and about annually – about 24% of our total manufacturing 15% of Canada’s wheat output. We export $2.7 billion annually. • about 15% of Canada’s canola and anitoba is a hub of agricultural production, • We continue to lead Canada in agricultural 7% of Canada’s flax seed which makes us ideally suited for food manufacturing and grain handling & storage M • about 22% of Canada’s oats production ventures that place the manufacturing exports – exporting to over 50 countries. • virtually 100% of Canada’s sunflower seeds close to the resources required. • We have a vibrant food processing sector with over 470 provincially-inspected facilities and • about 29% of Canada’s soybeans over 130 federally-inspected facilities. • about 12% of Canada’s beef cows Latest data for the Province identifies Latest data for the Province identifies our • over 28% of Canada’s sows our 2017 crop production as follows: 2017 annual livestock slaughter as follows: Source: Statistics Canada 2017, CANSIM 001-0017 Source: AAFC Foresight and Analysis 2018 • over 120 variety of vegetables +100% 5.0 +1000% 40 Manitoba also supports: 4.368 +750% +644% 35 +631% major crops of corn, mustard seed, hemp, +80% 4.5 33,819,750 • +63% buckwheat, canary seed and pulses