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Directory of the food industry and of beverage companies.
Food companies of Canada :
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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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