type private industry agriculture founded 1909 founder w.l. parrish norman heimbecker headquarters winnipeg manitoba canada area served worldwide number of employees 1 500 june 2010 website parrishandheimbecker.com original p & h signage coaldale alberta parrish & heimbecker limited is a canadian grain company with about 1500 employees across canada and the northern united states . the company has several divisions including flour milling feed milling grain marketing transportation and logistics . parrish & heimbecker limited is a private family owned business founded in 1909 . this canadian owned vertically integrated business is one of the largest full service grain handling and crop input supply companies in canada . it is also the largest canadian owned milling company in canada with animal nutrition poultry farming and food processing divisions in western and eastern canada . the company is an agent and accredited exporter for the canadian wheat board . in 2002 the company acquired a grain elevator at dutton siding manitoba from agricore united . the elevator is located between gilbert plains and grandview in manitoba . 1 contents 1 history 2 network of canadian grain elevators and terminals 3 references 4 external links history edit parrish and heimbecker began in 1909 by william parrish and norman g. heimbecker . until 1918 the firm bought and sold grain on the winnipeg grain exchange but was not operating grain elevators . in 1918 p & h bought 10 elevators from louis strong and frederick dowler who were calgary grain brokers . after buying more elevators by 1920 p & h had 20 elevators . network of canadian grain elevators and terminals edit in 2011 p & h have approximately 32 grain elevators in canada including 12 grain elevators in ontario that handle a variety of canadian agricultural products such as wheat corn barley soybeans oats distillers grain ip soybeans navy beans etc. references edit agricore united sells elevator to parrish & heimbecker . . resource news international . february 26 2002 . retrieved 2008 11 25 . parrish and heimbecker grain company . the encyclopedia of saskatchewan . retrieved 2008 11 25 . http www.realagriculture.com 2013 04 ph expands saskatchewan presence . missing or empty title help external links edit parrish & heimbecker limited this article about a canadian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title parrish % 26 heimbecker & oldid 711746644 categories grain elevators in canadacompanies based in winnipegcompanies established in 1909grain companiescanadian company stubshidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 24 march 2016 at 16 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view