Hydraglass They also have to compete in the same market for purchase of their incoming supplies - farms may be more likely to sign lower price more favorable contracts with bigger names that have higher less elastic demand.
To an extent, maybe, but their ingredient lists were somewhat different. Their products tended to use maple syrup or organic cane sugar, rather than some variant of regular sugar or corn syrup. They had a deal with a Quebec-based farm for tomatoes, and had invested in increasing local production for their ketchup, so they also weren’t competing for Leamington tomatoes. Given the vast difference in scales of the operations, I don’t doubt that Kraft-Heinz are able to extract a more favourable deal, however, and also afford to buy most of the shelf space in-store.
The second article also details a sizeable investment from the Quebec government, in Kraft-Heinz, allegedly to keep production in Quebec. Meanwhile, a company whose entire operation was in Quebec, including sourcing the tomatoes, was not offered any additional assistance to keep it afloat, beyond the initial relative pittance that they had received. To continue that train of thought would lean too far into politics, so I will leave it there.