Broadgrain Commodities Inc.

BroadGrain was founded in 2003 by Ghazi Qadoumi and Zaid Qadoumi. The Qadoumi family has been in the grain and food business for three generations in the Middle East, with the other family interests having a major market share in the agricultural industry in Jordan and other Middle eastern markets. BroadGrain began operations with the acquisition of a grain elevator asset in Seaforth, Ontario, which was started up through capital investments and initiating new sales relationships. Regular capital investments were made to increase capacity and add new services to expand the operations. As the Seaforth operations began to grow significantly, BroadGrain also began penetrating the international grain trading business through the establishment of the Global Trading Unit, initially focused in Middle Eastern markets and later into North Africa, along with some smaller transactions in Asia and Europe. With the expansion of the Company, came the decision to move the head office and Global Trading Unit to Toronto, Canada to gain access to a larger pool of talent to fuel continued growth as well as to gain better access to international customers. Today, BroadGrain has over $400 million of revenue and handles over 1.2 million tonnes of grain per year in both its international and Canadian domestic businesses and is poised for future strong growth in both business segments.