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1955: Loney's founded by Yves Hudon.
1961: Yves Hudon buys Grissol and folds Loney's into Grissol Foods Limited.
1972: Grissol, including Loney's, was purchased by Imasco Foods Limited, the food arm of the Imperial Tobacco company.
1983: Imasco Foods, including Grissol, purchased by Culinar, Inc., of Montreal, Quebec.
1999: Montreal cheese company Saputo Inc. buys Culinar, made up of the Vachon snack cakes businesses and the CFS (Cookies, Fine Breads and Soups) Division.
2001: Dare Foods Limited buys Culinar CFS (Cookies, Fine Breads and Soups) from Saputo Inc. Culinar is dissolved. Loney's soups continue to be made in the Grissol fine breads (Melba toast) plant in Ste-Martine, 30 km south of Montreal, Quebec.
2004: Dare Foods Limited sells the Loney's soups business (with related manufacturing equipment) to Produits Alimentaires Berthelet of Montreal, Quebec. Production of Loney's soups moves from the Grissol Ste-Martine plant to Berthelet's facilities in Montreal.
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Soup manufacturer.
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Created by NM in March 2019.
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The history of Loney's and its relationship to Dare Foods Limited was ascertained from a memorandum written by Bryan Dare to the University of Waterloo. Special Collections & Archives, the majority of which has been copied into the history note of this authority record. A physical copy of the memorandum can be found in SCA188-GA420-2-22 and SCA188-GA420-3-64.