101 Top Food and Beverage Startups and Companies in British Columbia

November 16, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best British Columbia based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top British Columbia Food and Beverage Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

CubicFarm Systems

CubicFarm Systems

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CubicFarm Systems is an ag-tech company that automates the controlled-environment to grow fresh produce and nutritious livestock feed.

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Fresh Prep Foods

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Fresh Prep Foods is a weeknight dinner solution providing meal kit delivery service for busy people.

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Pontus Protein

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Pontus specializes in highly scalable indoor vertical farming of water lentils that use 95 percent less water than traditional agriculture.

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SmartSweets

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SmartSweets is driving innovation through creation of the first candy products that kick sugar Naturally.

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Fed

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Fed is a food as medicine startup that designs, prepares, and delivers nutritionally-focused meals to your door.

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PlantX

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PlantX is the digital face of everything plant-based utilizing the power of education and accessibility.

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Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery

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Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery is an internet grocer of organic and natural foods.

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Vegano Foods

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Vegano Foods is a plant-based meal kit delivery service that uses high-quality ingredients sourced from local farmers and producers.

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Trendi

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We use AI-driven robotics to help the far and food industry rescue and upcycle food waste into delicious products.

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Freshline

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Freshline is an eCommerce & fulfillment SaaS software made for perishable food. We work with food suppliers and enable them to sell online.

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CENTR

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CENTR is a beverage lifestyle brand that produces and distributes sparkling CBD beverages.

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Performance Kitchen

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Performance Kitchen provides a range of Mediterranean diet-inspired global flavors.

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A&W Food Services of Canada

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A&W is a restaurant that serves a delicious combination of great-tasting burgers, onion rings and frosted mugs of famous A&W root beer.

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BevCanna Enterprises

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BevCanna Enterprises develops and manufactures cannabinoid-infused beverages and consumer products.

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Renaissance BioScience

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Renaissance BioScience, a biotechnology company, develops yeast-based proprietary technology solutions for food and beverage manufacturers.

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UpMeals

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UpMeals is a food technology company that empowers organizations to provide healthy, branded food solutions to their customers or employees.

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Mercer International

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Mercer International operates as a pulp business and produces NBSK market pulp.

Canuck Eats

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Franchised Locally Owned & Operated Food Delivery Service

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Oco Meals

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Oco Meals delivers ready-to-eat meals at the doorstep on a weekly basis.

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Avanti Commerce

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Avanti is a global distribution system for both digital marketing channels and restaurant operators in the food & beverage industry.

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TMRW Foods

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TMRW Foods is a Canadian producer of plant-based proteins, producing out of their wholly owned HACCP certified facility.

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SunSelect Produce

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SunSelect produseces greenhouse-grown bell peppers and other vegetables in North America.

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Swiss Water

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Swiss Water Process removes caffeine from coffee for leading coffee roasters throughout the United States.

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Taynton Bay Spirits

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Taynton Bay Spirits have created a line of spirits that are distilled in Invermere BC from locally grown wheat.

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Central City Brewers + Distillers

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Central City Brewers + Distillers is a brewery and distillery company producing craft beer, cider, spirits and ready-to-drink beverages.

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Mealime

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Mealime is a simple, healthy, and delicious free way to cook at home

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DishPal

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DishPal brings local restaurant cuisine to busy eaters who love delicious food through local food couriers.

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Laid Back Snacks

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Laid Back Snacks is a healthy snack food company based in Vancouver, BC.

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Daiya Foods

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Daiya is a rapidly growing plant-based food platform.

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FoodBanks BC

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Food Banks BC responsible for distributing funds to individual food banks.

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Meatme.ca

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A better way to eat meat

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Consolidated Biofuels

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Consolidated Biofuels produces Biodiesel from a variety of feed stocks that exceed the fuel requirements

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JustKitchen

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JustKitchen allows delivery-only restaurants and food brands to reach more customers, lower overhead costs, and reduce food wastage.

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Naledo

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Naledo is making the best turmeric paste on earth, making a positive impact on health, communities and the environment.

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Saje Natural Wellness

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Saje Natural Wellness is a producer of essential oil remedies.

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CACTUS CLUB CAFE

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Cactus Club Cafe is a Canadian premium casual restaurant.

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The Oppenheimer Group

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The Oppenheimer Group markets and distributes fresh fruits and vegetables to retail, wholesale, and food service customers.

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Evanesce Packaging Solutions

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Evanesce Packaging Solutions is manufactures biodegradable food packaging solutions.

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Epicure

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Epicure Explore clean food products, delicious recipes, and time-saving cookware.

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Ollie Order

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Ollie Order is a distribution management software platform for British Columbian alcohol makers and buyers.

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AlgaeCal Inc.

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AlgaeCal is a natural health supplements company that imports and distributes USDA certified organic plant calcium sourced from algae.

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Earth’s Own

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Earths Own is a plant based food company.

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Panago Pizza

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Panago is a Canadian pizza delivery and takeout chain with over 180 locations

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The Original Cakerie

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The Original Cakerie is a leading manufacturer of high quality frozen desserts for Retail and Foodservice customers across North America.

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Susgrainable Health Foods

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Susgrainable produces healthy and sustainable flours using upcycled ingredients from beverage producers.

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Kamloop Foods

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Kamloop food bank operates with the mission of “Sharing food. Feeding hope” to create a hunger free community.

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WiZe Coffee Leaf

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Wize Coffee Leaf is the global leader in Coffee Leaf Tea production, research, and innovation.

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Fine Choice Foods

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Fine Choice Foods is a Canadian-owned, family run business, delivers quality Asian foods for the North American Market.

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Rocka Foods International Inc.

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Providing nutritious commercial meal kits to schools and other canteens in Africa, starting in Ghana.

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Vitasave.ca

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Shop Canada’s top online vitamin and supplement store from hundreds of top brands of discount vitamins, supplements and health foods.

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Overhill Farms

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Overhill Farms is a food & beverages company specializing in meat and fish specialties, pasta, soups

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meowbox

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Meowbox is a monthly subscription box that consists of toys and food for cats.

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Tait Labs

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Tait Labs is a sustainable ingredient developer for the food & beverage, dietary supplement and pharmaceutical industries.

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Noble Jerky

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Effortless Plant Protein Snacking from a Former Meat Company

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Naturo Group Investments

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Naturo Group Investments develops and manufactures beverages and consumer products for in–house brands and white label clients.

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Mission Roots Cafe

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Mission Roots Cafe is a student-run, not-for-profit sustainable coffee shop characterized by its innovative “choose-your-charity” system.

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T & T Supermarket

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T & T Supermarket is a beaut& food product company.

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Quality Foods

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Quality Foods, Vancouver Island BC owned and operated since our first store in Qualicum Beach in 1982.

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Tubify

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Tubify, is a one-of-a-kind freezie. Made with 100% fruit ingredients, coconut milk, gluten-free, vegan, all-organic, and naturally sourced.

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Sun Rich Fresh Foods

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Sun Rich cuts and prepares made-to-order fresh fruit – packaged to ensure freshness, convenience and safety.

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White Spot

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White Spot is a food and beverage delivery company located in W Vancouver.

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Fit Foods Ltd

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Fit Foods Ltd provides research & development, manufacturing & distribution of nutritional supplements that include sports nutrition.

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Fatso

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Fatso is a food production company that manufactures peanut butter and other spreads with plant based super fats.

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Direct Tap

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Provide a better logistical service to craft liquor manufacturers in British Columbia.

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Peqish Food Company

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Peqish is a food processing company that has nutritious ingredients, and delicious food created by doctors and chefs.

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Gordon Food Service – Canada

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Gordon Food Service – Canada provides restaurant supply, food and beverage distribution, food service, retail stores and healthcare supply.

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LYF Food Technologies

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LYF Food Technologies produces expertly crafted chocolate, confectionery, and baked cannabis-infused edibles.

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Planted Meals

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Planted Meals is affordable and convenient ready to eat vegan meal delivery service to the greater Vancouver area in BC.

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Chillidash

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Chillidash provides a white-labeled website with online ordering, dashboard, and marketing tools to restaurants, bars, and cafes

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Tealeaves

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TEALEAVES is one of the very few tea blenders in the world, known for crafting the highest quality teas in small batches by hand.

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Rumble Supershake

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Rumble Supershake is a hunger-fighting all natural protein shake.

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Silver Hills Bakery

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Silver Hills Bakery is a food and beverage and wholesale company located in Abbotsford.

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Shambhala Music Festival

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Shambhala Music Festival was born from a vision as grassroots as it gets.

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Donnelly Group

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Donnelly Group operates public houses, cocktail inns, taverns and pubs including online food delivery, dining and hospitality services.

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Caffè Artigiano

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Caffè Artigiano is a Italian style artisan coffee house & roaster.

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NutraEx Food

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NutraEx food provides sweeteners from natural source ingredients for different applications.

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Fresh Direct Produce

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Fresh Direct Produce is a distributor of fresh, ethnic, tropical, organic, and speciality produce.

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T&T Supermarket

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T&T Supermarket is a Canadian supermarket featuring Asian foods including uniquely Asian foods not available elsewhere.

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The Amarna Company

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Amarna, a maker of release products and spray systems used in food applications.

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Marine Harvest Canada

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Worldwide, Marine Harvest employs 7,500 people and produces one third of the world’s farmed salmon and trout at facilities in Norway,

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Brookside Foods Ltd

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Brookside Foods Ltd., a privately held confectionery company based in Abbotsford, British Columbia.

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Spread EM Kitchen

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SPREAD’EM KITCHEN makes nut based dairy-alternatives like cheese, spreads, dips and butter.

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Urban Cultivator

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Urban Cultivator is the perfect indoor garden that gives you fresh herbs and microgreens 365 days a year.

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Tosuta International Sales

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Tosuta International Sales is an importer and distributor of gummies, sours, hard and soft candies, throat lozenges, and chocolate.

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Holy Crap Foods

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Holy Crap Foods is a high-fiber breakfast cereal with the name that’s a promise, located in Sechelt, BC, Canada.

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All Nature

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All Nature is a pet food company that delivers pet food and treats.

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Horizon Distributors

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Horizon Distributors is a national distributor of organic and natural products in the dry, chill and frozen categories

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FoodMesh

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FoodMesh is a B2B marketplace that matches surplus food to a verified network of businesses and charities.

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BLCO

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BLCO is a large KFC and Taco Bell franchise operator in Western Canada.

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Windset Farms

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Windset Farms vegetable production company that produces peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, and specialty items.

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Scrapless

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Scrapless prevents food waste by connecting hungry individuals with suppliers having excess food through its food marketplace application.

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Golden Boy Foods

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Golden Boy Foods is a family owned company selling roasted nuts, raw nuts and dried fruit.

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Whole Food Trading

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Whole Food Trading is a wholesale supplier of Asian food, seafood, alcohol beverage and restaurant supplies.

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Cellderm Technologies Inc.

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Cellderm Technologies Inc. produces high quality natural products promoting wellness and fighting disease.

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English Bay Batter

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English Bay Batter, a Vancouver-based bakery business.

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Canterbury Coffee

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Canterbury Coffee business is the roasting, packaging, and sale of specialty grade coffees and related beverage products to the foodservice.

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nutriFoodie

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nutriFoodie is an organization focused on nutrition education through food-literacy, multi-cultural cooking skills, intuitive eating.

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Bean Around The World Coffees

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Bean Around The World Coffees is a coffee roasting company located in North Vancouver.

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Boned Broth

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Boned Broth is committed to produce freshest, and most nutrient-packed broths in the world.

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Fuud

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Fuud delivers easy to prepare chef-inspired recipe kits to busy people who want to rediscover the joy of cooking.

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The Island Fishermen’s Cooperative Association

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Association coopérative des pêcheurs de l’Île ltée is a food processing company which sells processed seafood products.

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