Nils-Gerrit Wunsch
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The average retail price of bread in Canada was three Canadian dollars per 675 grams in October 2024. In October 2024, the price of bread was at 3.45 dollars for 675 grams.
The Canadian bread market
Retail sales of bread in Canada reached around 3.53 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, this figure was forecast to increase to around 4.24 billion U.S. dollars by 2022. Sales of packaged or industrial bread clearly outperform those of unpackaged or artisanal bread - in 2017, total sales of unpackaged bread amounted to around 964 million U.S. dollars, whilst sales of packaged bread totaled approximately 2.57 billion U.S. dollars.
International trade
In 2019, the value of bread exported from Canada was almost double that of the amount which they imported. Exports reached around 4.1 billion Canadian dollars, whilst imports were valued at about 2.2 billion Canadian dollars.
