Related party transactions

12 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2018

21. Related Party Transactions

The following table summarizes transactions between the Company and related parties:

		December 29, 2018	December 30, 2017	December 31, 2016
		$	$	$
Purchases and sales:
	Purchases of fruits, grains and seeds⁽¹⁾	19,975	18,487	14,867
	Sales of agronomy products⁽²⁾	1,136	1,141	488
	Sales of coffee beans⁽³⁾	1,626	1,954	1,896
	Rent and other	59	220	976

Grower loans⁽⁴⁾		1,500	-	-

(1) Represents purchases of raw fruit, and fruit processing and freight services from companies related to the Managing Director of the Company’s Mexican operations, as well as purchases of grains and seeds from employees of the Company, which are included in cost of goods sold on the consolidated statements of operations.

(2) Represents sales of agronomy products to employees of the Company, which are included in revenues on the consolidated statements of operations.

(3) Represents the sale of coffee beans from TOC to a company that is owned by the non-controlling shareholder of Trabocca B.V., a less-than-wholly-owned subsidiary of TOC. These sales are included in revenues on the consolidated statement of operations.

(4) Represents loans made to the Managing Director of the Company’s Mexican operations, to provide operating funds for farms owned by the director. These loans are secured by the crops grown on the farms. As at December 29, 2018, $1.5 million of these loans were outstanding, which are repayable in full on June 30, 2019.