ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS – PROCESSOR PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAM (PPP)

To be considered eligible for both Phases of the Program, applicants must:  

 

• Be a growth-oriented food, beverage, or seafood * processor in B.C. seeking long term improvements to expand sales, production and marketing reach. Growth-oriented processors must demonstrate production capacity and scalability, financial capacity and management capacity to take on new orders or enter into new domestic or international market channels.  

• Seafood processors will be eligible for funding under Intake 1 of this Program only.  

• Have business gross revenue of a minimum of $500,000 and a maximum of $6,000,000 for the past two (2) years.  

• Have four (4) or more employees.  

• Have at least 50% of direct production costs occur in B.C.  

• Be a processor that produces a final product that undergoes one of the following activities performed in a commercial food and/or beverage manufacturing facility located in BC, for the purpose of sales and distribution: General physical alterations: grinding beef, milling wheat, crushing tomatoes, shredding cheese, chopping cucumbers, etc. and/or 
• Extending shelf life: freezing, canning, drying, pickling, smoking, fermenting, etc. and/or  combining ingredients to make a new product: Baking muffins, making pizza, blending juice, mixing salad greens, etc. 

• The following are not considered processing (with the exception of any of these being combined with one of the activities above):
  • Cleaning  
  • Washing  
  • Bagging  
  • Packaging and/or wrapping