Revenue

3 Months Ended

Mar. 30, 2019

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2.  Revenue

The Company sources, processes and packages organic and natural food products, including specialty and organic raw commodities and value-added ingredients, and consumer-ready beverage, frozen fruit and fruit snack products.  The Company's customers include retailers, foodservice operators, branded food companies and food manufacturers. 

The following table presents a disaggregation of the Company's revenues based on categories used by the Company to evaluate sales performance: 

	Quarter ended
	March 30, 2019	March 31, 2018
	$	$
Global Ingredients
Internationally-sourced organic ingredients	105,884	102,267
North American-sourced seeds and grains(1)	22,159	34,064
Total Global Ingredients	128,043	136,331
Consumer Products
Beverage products(2)	88,069	85,250
Frozen fruit products(3)	76,677	77,471
Snack products(4)	12,486	13,600
Total Consumer Products	177,232	176,321
Total revenues	305,275	312,652

(1)Includes revenues from the specialty and organic soy and corn business prior to the sale of this business in the first quarter of 2019 (see note 3).

(2)Includes aseptically-packaged products including non-dairy plant-based beverages, broths and teas; refrigerated premium juices; and shelf-stable juices and functional waters.

(3)Includes individually quick frozen ("IQF") fruit for retail; IQF and bulk frozen fruit for foodservice; and custom fruit preparations for industrial use. 

(4)Comprises fruit snack offerings, as well as the sale of $2.6 million of flexible resealable pouch and nutrition bar products in the first quarter of 2018. The Company exited the flexible resealable pouch and nutrition bar product lines and operations in the fourth quarter of 2017 but continued to deliver remaining inventories to customers during the first quarter of 2018.