December 16, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Urban Barns Foods Inc. (OTCBB: URBF) said it has reached agreements in principal regarding outsourcing of certain logistics services to Bevo Agro and Robyn’s Transportation and Distribution Services Ltd.

Urban Barns’ president and CEO, Jack Benne is currently also the CEO of Bevo Agro and Urban Barns’ director, Robyn Jackson is also the president of Robyn’s Transportation and Distribution Services Ltd.

company chairman Dan Meikleham said, “By outsourcing the propagation and shipping functions, Urban Barns Foods has created a new three-way strategic relationship, which includes Bevo Agro and Robyn’s.”

Meikleham added, “The concept is to vertically integrate and leverage two well established, successful operations in the food sector in Western Canada. With Jack and Robyn on our board of directors, we expect to scale Urban Barns Foods throughout our target market area very rapidly.”

Canada-based Urban Barns Foods produces fruits and vegetables in a controlled indoor environment.

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