Jiffy International AS today announces the formation of a new holding company, Jiffy Canada Inc., which has completed the acquisition of A. E. McKenzie Co., Inc., purchasing 100% of their stock. McKenzie is located in Brandon, Manitoba and is the leading Canadian company producing packaged flower and vegetable seeds for Canadian home gardeners.

“We are very happy to be expanding our presence in the North American home garden market and we look forward to continuing the development of A. E. McKenzie Company’s highly successful business,” says Årstein Knutson, President of Jiffy International AS.

A. E. McKenzie Co., Inc. is the oldest active seed company in Canada, and the company caters directly to the consumer market through retailers by selling seed and seed-related products such as seed starter products, grass seed and a variety of gardening aids to be used for planting seed.

“By acquiring A. E. McKenzie Co, Jiffy will now be able to focus even more toward the garden hobbyist,” says Daniel Schrodt, President of Jiffy Canada Inc. “Although the professional grower industry is the backbone of Jiffy’s operation, this acquisition has created a clear synergy between the companies, allowing us both to complement each others’ lines nicely.”

Both companies see future market potential areas where they each already have a brand name base and also a future for new products that will rollout very soon. In addition to newly-owned McKenzie Seed Company, the Jiffy organization also owns Ferry-Morse Seed Company in the U.S., that country’s leading producer of seed packets for the home gardener.