Global Food and Ingredients Ltd. announced the successful commissioning of its retail packaging line at its North Carolina-based US distribution center. The retail packaging facility has three production lines capable of packaging products in pouches, pillow bags and boxes to support GFI's expansion into foodservice and retail channels. The facility has been built within GFI's distribution centre, providing a highly efficient operation with retail packaging and order fulfilment in the same location.

The Company has successfully completed its initial production and delivery of its North Lily branded bagged product. The retail packaging capabilities are a critical further step forward in the Company's integrated farm-to-fork strategy. GFI sources products from over 500+ farmers in Western Canada, processes them at one of its three human grade facilities and ships the product to its US distribution centre for packaging and distribution to foodservice and retail channels.

In addition to whole plant-based ingredients, the Company, through its state-of-the-art pea splitting facility, also packages split yellow and green peas for distribution.