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Directory of the food industry and of beverage companies.



Food companies of Canada :



 
  • Atlantic Superstore

    Atlantic Superstore is a Canadian supermarket chain of 51 stores in the Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. It is owned by George Weston Limited through Loblaw Companies Limited, and operates under the Atlantic Wholesalers division of Loblaws.

  • Baton Rouge (restaurant)

    Bâton Rouge is a Canadian restaurant chain, famous for their baby back ribs, steaks, and grilled catch of the day. It was founded in Laval, QC. There are 25 Bâton Rouge's in Canada as of 2008 mainly in Quebec and Ontario with sites ranging from 7000 to 9,000 square feet (840 m2). The first restaurant is located at the Carrefour Laval. The restaurant chain is now owned by the Pizza Delight Corporation, based in Moncton, which also owns Mikes Restaurants.

  • Black Diamond Cheese

    Black Diamond Cheese Limited is a Canadian cheese manufacturing company, established in 1933, by Robert F. Hart. Founded under the name "Belleville Cheddar Cheese Limited", its original purpose was to export aged Canadian cheddar to the British market.

    It is owned by Parmalat of Canada, since 1998. The subsidiary employs approximately 470 people at its factory in Belleville, Ontario.

  • Cara Operations

    Cara Operations Limited is a Canadian company that provides catering services to airlines and operates several restaurant and coffee shop chains including: Harvey's, Swiss Chalet, Kelsey's, Milestone's and Montana's. The company is based across from Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.

  • Chapman's

    Chapman's is the largest independent ice cream and ice water products manufacturer in Canada. In 1973, David and Penny Chapman purchased the Creamery in Markdale Ontario, a village just south of Georgian Bay.Their dream was an ice cream manufacturing plant that would provide a quality product at an affordable price, adding the personal touch that only a small company could provide. The company started out as a small creamery with four employees and two trucks and has grown into a multi million dollar business since then. It is currently located in Markdale, Ontario. They are mainly known based on their range of ice creams for people with special dietary needs. They produce products under their own brand name, and also produce store brand products. They now distribute their products across Canada. The company has a plant and an 140 000 sq. ft. distibution centre in Markdale, Ontario, and another distibution centre in New Brunswick to serve the Atlantic provinces.

  • CoolBrands

    CoolBrands International Inc. (TSX: COB) is a company based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that makes frozen desserts, sold under a variety of brands. It was known for its Eskimo Pie and Chipwich brands, recently sold to the Dreyer's division of Nestlé. It also markets frozen novelties licensed under brand names including Godiva, Tropicana, Yoplait and Snapple. In addition, it has acquired the Breyers yogurt brand from Kraft Foods.

  • Cott

    Cott Corporation (TSX: BCB NYSE: COT) is a leading supplier of private label carbonated soft drinks distributing to Canada, the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Europe. In addition to producing many private-label beverages for retailers, Cott also has a large and growing portfolio of its own brands. These brands include Cott, RC (excluding North America), Ben Shaws, Stars & Stripes, Vintage and Vess soft drinks. Recently, Cott has been expanding its product line into ready-to-drink teas, sparkling and flavoured waters, sports and energy drinks, juice drinks and smoothies. These newer Cott brands include Orient Emporium, GL-7, Red Rain Energy and After Shock Energy.

  • Dagwoods

    Dagwoods is a fast food restaurant chain in the Greater Montreal Area, in Quebec, Canada. It was founded by Spiro Krallis in 1989, and by 2004, he owned and operated thirteen Dagwoods locations in the city. Krallis expects to franchise future locations.

  • Dairyland

    Dairyland is a company is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its products are sold across Canada.

    Dairyworld Foods, a US based dairy company, was purchased by Saputo Incorporated in 2001. Dairyworld Foods, also known as Agrifoods International Cooperative Limited, produced milk to be sold in Canada at large retailers as Dairyland. Dairyworld was created in 1992 from various mergers.

  • Extreme Pita

    Extreme Pita is a Canada-based fast-food chain co-founded by brothers Alex Rechichi and Mark Rechichi in 1997. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the company has more than 150 units throughout Canada and the United States.

    Extreme Pita serves pita sandwiches, salads, and pizza-style "flat-baked" pitas. The chain considers these types of products to be relatively healthy compared to traditional fast-food fare. Available ingredients include fresh vegetables, cheeses, meats and vegetarian options such as falafel and hummus.

  • Ganong Bros.

    Ganong Bros., Limited is Canada's oldest candy company; it was founded by James and Gilbert Ganong in 1873 in St. Stephen, New Brunswick where it is based to this day. The primary product is boxed chocolates. It now provides many chocolates for Laura Secord stores.

  • Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods

    Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods is a Canadian food company that packages potato chips, and other salty snacks.

    Humpty Dumpty sells a variety of potato chips. Available flavours include, but are not limited to: Regular, BBQ, Ketchup, Dill Pickle, Salt and Vinegar, Roast Chicken, Sour Cream and Onion, Smokin' Bacon and a St-Hubert rotisserie flavoured chicken flavour.

  • J.D. Irving

    J.D. Irving Limited is a privately owned conglomerate company headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Its activities include many industries: forestry, paper products, agriculture, food processing, transportation, shipbuilding. The company forms, with Irving Oil, the bulk of the Irving Group of companies, which regroups the interests of the Irving family.

  • Jack Astor's Bar & Grill

    Jack Astor's Bar and Grill is a chain of 24 restaurants located in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Nova Scotia, all in Canada, and New York and North Carolina in the United States. All locations include a restaurant and bar area. It is owned by SIR Corp.

  • Just Us!

    Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op is a Canadian importer of fair trade coffee, tea, sugar, and chocolate. Based in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Just Us! products are sold throughout Canada, typically in shops specializing in fair trade goods such as Ten Thousand Villages. As well, Just Us! operates a network of cafés in Nova Scotia with locations in Grand Pré, Wolfville, and Halifax.

  • The Keg

    The Keg is a chain of steakhouses and bars in Canada and the United States. It was founded in 1971 in North Vancouver, British Columbia by George Tidball and today operates in all provinces (excluding P.E.I.) and five American states. Originally known as The Keg and Cleaver, the word "cleaver" was later dropped. The Keg is well known for buying up historic manors and turning them into restaurants. Examples of this are the Keg Mansion in downtown Toronto, and the Keg Manor in Ottawa. Also notable as a heritage restoration is the Keg in New Westminster, British Columbia, which was formerly the city's CPR station.

  • Kelsey's Neighbourhood Bar & Grill

    Kelsey's Neighbourhood Bar & Grill is a Canadian bar and grill restaurant chain headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario owned by Cara Operations. Founded in 1978, there are restaurants across Canada, excluding the province of Quebec (where the chain was withdrawn there) and the Atlantic Provinces.

  • Liberté Natural Foods

    Liberté Natural Foods is a Canadian manufacturer and distributor of all natural, organic, and specialty dairy and deli foods. The current Liberté Natural Foods is a combination of three previously separate companies, Western Creamery, Liberté Brand Products, and the dairy division of Tournevent. These companies were combined under the name of Liberté Natural Foods on July 1, 2006 to better reflect the company's goal of bringing fresh food solutions to customers. Although all three companies share a common name the products are still distributed under their respective brand names. Besides these brands Liberté also distributes products for several other manufacturers, some of which are listed below.

  • M&M Meat Shops

    M&M Meat Shops (Les aliments M&M in Quebec) is the largest specialty frozen food store chain in Canada. It has locations in all ten provinces and the Yukon and Northwest Territories.

  • Maple Leaf Foods

    Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (TSX: MFI) is a major Canadian food processing company, founded in 1927 as a merger of several major Toronto meat packers.

  • McCain Foods Limited

    McCain Foods Limited, a privately owned company established in 1957 by the brothers Harrison and Wallace McCain in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada, is the largest producer of french fries and other oven-ready frozen food products in the world.

  • Mikes (restaurant)

    Mikes is a chain of Italian restaurants that originated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with 115 restaurants in Eastern Canada, and a new one located in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the United States.

    The restaurant chain is now owned by Pizza Delight Corporation, based in Moncton, New Brunswick. Mikes was originally founded in 1967, in Montreal, as a sandwich shop. Since then, their menu has added pizza, pasta, poutine, cheese-stick and many other meals as well as some desserts.

  • Milestone's Restaurants

    Milestone's Restaurants Inc. is a Canadian bar and grill restaurant headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia owned by Cara Operations Ltd.. There are over 35 locations in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.

  • Montana's Cookhouse

    Montana's Cookhouse is a Canadian restaurant headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario.

    Montana's Cookhouse first opened its doors in 1995. There are restaurants located in Canada from coast to coast (except Prince Edward Island) in addition to US locations in Michigan and New York State. The original name was Montana's Cookhouse Saloon, but when the chain expanded into the United States, the owners removed Saloon from the name as it did not fit the image they wished to project in that country.

  • Multi-Marques

    Multi-Marques Inc. is Quebec’s largest bakery and the second largest in Canada since its merger with Canada Bread. Multi-Marques Inc. employs more than 1 700 people throughout seven bakeries in Laval, Beauport, Lévis, Quebec, Montreal and St-Côme-de-Beauce.

  • Ocean Nutrition Canada

    Ocean Nutrition Canada, a subsidiary of Clearwater Fine Foods, is the leading global supplier of Omega-3 EPA/DHA fatty acids. These acids are typically obtained through the oils of Sardines, Anchovy, and other oily fish.

  • Priszm

    Priszm is the largest restaurant income trust in Canada and the largest operator of Canadian fast food restaurants. The Priszm Income Fund (TSX: QSR), an income trust, owns 60.2% of Priszm; the remainder is owned by John Bitove.

    Priszm owns four Yum! Brands restaurant franchises chains in Canada, namely KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Long John Silver's. It is one of the largest Yum franchisees in the world as the majority of its locations are KFC restaurants, some of which are co-branded with Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands.

  • SaveEasy

    SaveEasy (formerly Atlantic Save-Easy) is a chain of small retail grocery store franchises in the Atlantic Provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, owned by Loblaw Companies Limited.

  • Schwartz's

    Schwartz's Hebrew Delicatessen, established in 1928 by Reuben Schwartz, a Jewish immigrant from Romania, is a landmark at 3895 Saint-Laurent Boulevard. It is the most famous smoked meat restaurant in Montreal, and kosher style rather than strictly kosher. Schwartz's often has a line extending out of the store, whether it is the middle of the day or late at night. The company also sells smoked meat by mail order.

  • Small Potatoes Urban Delivery

    Small Potatoes Urban Delivery (SPUD) is an online grocery store dedicated to being "the most socially responsible, environmentally sound, and financially profitable internet home delivery company in North America" The ideology behind SPUD and other home delivery systems is to save time for the consumer while saving money by operating out of a warehouse rather than a high cost retail store, and to be environmentally friendly by reducing pollution by reducing the amount of travel required to distribute groceries to the publics homes.

  • St-Hubert

    St-Hubert BBQ Ltd is a privately held chain of Canadian casual dining restaurants better known for its rotisserie chicken. St-Hubert once had a presence throughout eastern Canada, but it now has few locations outside its home province of Quebec, where it remains a dominant chain. Other locations are found in Ottawa, Cornwall, Bathurst, and Moncton. St-Hubert is the 16th largest restaurant chain operating in Canada.

  • Sun-Rype

    Sun-Rype Products Ltd. (TSX: SRF) is western Canada’s largest fruit-based food and beverage manufacturer. Since its foundation in 1946, Sun-Rype has been producing juices and fruit snacks in Kelowna, British Columbia, in the heart of the Okanagan.

  • Swiss Chalet

    Swiss Chalet is a chain of Canadian family restaurants originally founded in 1954 in Toronto, Ontario. There are presently over 200 restaurants in Canada and the United States, as of 2008. It is a division of Cara Operations, which also owns the hamburger chain Harvey's; the two chains frequently share locations. The name Swiss Chalet originates from the design of its original restaurants, which featured exposed beam architecture, resembling a chalet one might find in the Swiss Alps.

  • Vachon Inc.

    Vachon, Inc. is a Canadian maker of popular snack pastries, owned by Saputo, Inc.

    It was founded in the early 20th century by Arcade and Roseannna Vachon, who ran a bakery in Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Quebec. Their more popular wares include Jos. Louis, Passion Flakie, and Ah Caramel!

  • Van Houtte

    Van Houtte Inc. is a company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that processes, distributes and sells coffee and related products.

    France-born Albert-Louis Van Houtte (1877–1944) emigrated to Canada in 1912. After the First World War made his attempt at a horse importing business unsustainable, he turned to food retailing. He opened a grocery store in 1919 to sell specialty items, but soon found particular success with gourmet coffee roasting.

  • Voortman Cookies

    Voortman Cookies Limited is a Canadian company specializing in the production and sale of cookies. Based in Burlington, Ontario, its cookies may be found in supermarkets across Canada and the United States.

    Voortman Cookies is affiliated with Appleby Transport Limited, a Canadian shipping company.

  • Yogen Früz

    Yogen Früz is an international chain of frozen yogurt and smoothie stores that also serves healthier alternative food products. Through company-owned, franchised, and non traditional partnerships, Yogen Früz is the largest franchisor and licensor of stores and other locations that serve primarily frozen yogurt.



 
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