CANOPY GROWTH CORPORATION
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“THE RECREATIONAL MARKET IS WHERE THE MAJOR PART OF OUR BUSINESS NOW COMES FROM ”
— Matthew Sly , Logistics Director , Canopy Growth by enforcement agencies because it decoupled pot from the illegal drug trade controlled by criminals . Cannabis for recreational use was legalised by the Canadian government in October 2018 , opening a completely new market opportunity to the already well-established industry leader Canopy Growth and its subsidiaries , Tweed Inc ( which grows the plants ) and Spectrum Therapeutics ( which supplies medical formulations ).
Today , Canopy is the world ’ s biggest producer and distributor of cannabis and employs some 3,500 people . From growing sites all around Canada , some under glass producing up to five harvests a year , some in open fields yielding a single harvest , the bulk product is brought in armoured trailers to the processing and packing plant at Smiths Falls .
It was in the run-up to legalisation that Matthew Sly was appointed Logistics Director of the company . At that point the company employed just 150 people , he recalls , and had no formal logistics department . Until then it had been comparatively simple as all operations were out of a single site at
JUNE 2020