CALEB NICKERSON
PONTIAC June 17, 2020
The Abattoir les Viandes Pontiac has been listed for sale on Royal Lepage’s website for several weeks at . . .
$4 million, which includes “the company with the goodwill, equipment and land.”
Owner Alain Lauzon said that listing the facility and its equipment for sale was meant to attract some new partners and investment in the business. He declined to go into further detail on the record but said that he was still “125 per cent” committed to the business.
The idea of a slaughterhouse in the area has been batted around for many years, but this project was announced in early 2018, and construction began later that year. At the time, the facility was pegged at $3.5 million, and was built with the help of loans from the provincial government, the Business Development Bank of Canada, the local SADC and MRC Pontiac, as well as the Caisse Populaire.
An additional grant of $200,000 from the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was announced by local MNA André Fortin in August 2018, apparently to ease some of the business’ debt commitments.
