OCO’s Trade Symposium at Guelph Organic Conference

Organic Council of Ontario Trade Symposium – (Seminar B)

Issues:
1) Aqua-culture standard led by Ted Zettel for input to proposed standard
2) ‘State of the industry’ update with Theresa Schumilas on current OCO research: production, sales outlets, processing sector challenges
3) Understanding growth on the organic value chain including current branding strategy update by J.P. Lacroix. Guests will be engaged in sector planning.
4) GMO policies concerning organics with input to go to form policy positions OCO leads multi-stakeholder effort with OFC help (OFC: Organic Federation of Canada).

 

Who should attend? ***organic traders, distributors and brokers; ***retailers wanting to understand current organic marketing issues so they can transmit these to consumers; ***motivated consumers – the beauty of a seminar like this is that you can learn first-hand about the burning issues of the current organic business in Canada; ***government and academics: this sector is moving, is animated, has passion, is building cash-flow – and you have to incorporate it into your department; ***anyone who wants to get involved in the organic marketing business. Why not? It’s time.

Register at http://www.guelphorganicconf.ca/register/

 

Note: Organic Council of Ontario is one of 16 Official Sponsor of the Guelph Conference. As such, they operate in the public sector and draw together multiple speakers and issues under one master symposium, such as this one. Don’t forget to register for OCO’s Organic Awards, downtown Guelph, Saturday evening, 7.00 pm

 

For the complete details please visit the Guelph Organic Conference website: http://www.guelphorganicconf.ca/workshops/friday/

 

 

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