JD Irving

JD Irving Ltd.
legal form	Private
founding	1882
Seat	Saint John , New Brunswick Canada;
Number of employees	15,000
Branch	Food processing, retail, transportation, shipbuilding, media, raw materials
Website	JD Irving Group

The JD Irving Group is a large Canadian family-run conglomerate headquartered in Saint John , New Brunswick , Canada. The company operates manufacturing facilities in all eastern Canadian provinces and the United States, and employs approximately 15,000 people in retail, forestry, paper products, prefabricated houses, agro-food production, people and goods transportation, shipbuilding, restaurant chains, print media, and raw material extraction and processing . The group has a dominant position in New Brunswick and significant political influence in the region.

history

JD Irving Ltd. was founded in the small town of Bouctouche , New Brunswick in 1882 by the strictly Protestant industrialist James Dargavel Irving. He had several children, one of whom was Kenneth Colin Irving , who helped his father in the company as a child. After receiving the majority of his father's company, he took advantage of this and carried out several expansions between 1920 and 1940, primarily in the areas of raw material extraction and processing.

In the post-war years, the company took over the Pulp Mills in Saint John and New York and other factories in New Brunswick. In the 1950s, the company took over the Saint John shipyard, took up transport and logistics operations at the same time and opened up heavy industry (Irving Equipment) in order to strengthen the company in the market. Further takeovers followed between 1960 and 2000, both in Canada and in the neighboring United States, especially in the US state of Maine . JD Irving has been involved in offshore trading since the 1960s , e.g. B. in Bermuda . The group benefits from numerous tax exemptions and government subsidies , particularly in the energy sector.

Business areas

Irving Forest Products & Services
- Irving Pulp & Paper Ltd.
- Irving Paper Ltd.
- Irving Tissue Co. Ltd.
- Lake Utopia Paper
- Irving Sawmill Division
- Irving Woodlands Division

Irving Transportation Services
- New Brunswick Railway Co. Ltd.
- Eastern Maine Railway Co. Ltd.
- Maine Northern Railway Co. Ltd.
- Midland Transport
- Midland Courier
- RST Industries
- Sunbury Transport
- Atlantic Towing
- Kent Line
- JDI Logistics
- Harbor Development

Irving Shipbuilding & Fabrication Services
- Halifax Shipyard
- East Isle Shipyard
- Shelburne Ship Repair
- Woodside Industries
- Fleetway Services

Irving Retail & Distribution Services
- Chandler
- Source Atlantic
- Kent Building Supplies
- Kent Homes
- Universal Truck & Trailer
- Shamrock truss
- Cavendish Agri Services

Irving Consumer Products
- Irving Tissue (paper processing)
- Irving Personal Care (diapers, training pants)
- Cavendish Produce (Food)
- Cavendish Farms (food)
- Indian River Farms (food)
- Riverdale Foods (Food)
- Master Packaging

Industrial Equipment & Construction
- Atlantic wallboard
- Irving wallboard
- Gulf Operators
- Irving Equipment (construction machinery)

media
- Brunswick News Telegraph-Journal (Saint John NB)
- Times & Transcript (Moncton NB)
- The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton NB)
- The Tribune (Campbellton NB)
- La Voix du Restigouche (Campbellton NB)
- The Bugle Observer (Woodstock NB)
- Le Journal Madawaska (Edmundston NB)
- L'Étoile (various editions) Édition provinciale
- Édition La Cataracte (Grand Falls NB)
- Édition Chaleur (Bathurst NB)
- Edition Dieppe (Dieppe NB)
- Édition Kent (Bouctouche NB)
- Édition Péninsule (Shippagan NB)
- Édition République (Edmundston NB)
- Edition Restigouche (Campbellton NB)
- Edition Shédiac (Shediac NB)
- Kings County Record (Sussex NB)
- Miramichi Leader (Miramichi NB)
- The Northern Light (Bathurst NB)
- Here (Saint John NB, Moncton NB, Fredericton NB)
Oil exploration, production and sales
- Irving Oil
Personnel Services
- Protrans Personnel Services Inc.
Security services
- Security Services Industrial Security Inc.
Professional Sports Moncton Wildcats

Web links

Individual evidence

^ JD Irving Ltd. - About us. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 18, 2011 ; accessed on October 28, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b ^c Alain Deneault, translation: Uta Rüenauver: The Lords of New Brunswick - For decades the family concern Irving has controlled the economic and political life in the Canadian maritime province . In: Barbara Bauer, Anna Lerch (Ed.): Le Monde diplomatique . No. 4/25 . TAZ / WOZ , April 2019, ISSN 1434-2561 , p. 17 .

[1] JD Irving Ltd. - About us. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 18, 2011 ; accessed on October 28, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[:0-2] Alain Deneault, translation: Uta Rüenauver: The Lords of New Brunswick - For decades the family concern Irving has controlled the economic and political life in the Canadian maritime province . In: Barbara Bauer, Anna Lerch (Ed.): Le Monde diplomatique . No. 4/25 . TAZ / WOZ , April 2019, ISSN 1434-2561 , p. 17 .