101 Top Food and Beverage Startups and Companies in Canada

August 7, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best Canada 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 Canada Food and Beverage Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Ritual

Ritual

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Ritual is an ordering app that taps networks of co-workers & colleagues for fast & easy pick up & pay at local eateries and coffee shops.

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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Flow Capital

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Flow Capital provides founder-friendly growth capital for high-growth companies.

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Goodfood

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Goodfood is a home meal solutions company that delivers fresh ingredients and recipes with free delivery.

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Flow Water

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Flow Water is a social water brand, dedicated to the pursuit of positive experience and providing the highest quality water in the world.

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Open Farm

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Open Farm is a pet food company that focuses on producing premium, healthy food, and treats for pets.

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SunOpta

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SunOpta specializes in the design, construction, ownership, and operation of biomass conversion equipment and facilities.

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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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P&P Optica

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P&P Optica combines in-line smart imaging technology with data analytics in a novel way to help ensure the food they eat is safer.

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Noblegen

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Noblegen produces nutritional and functional plant-based food and ingredients using revolutionary “cell-to-solution” technology.

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Chef’s Plate

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Chef’s Plate is an online platform that enables users to get fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and chef-inspired recipes to their homes.

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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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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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Province Brands of Canada

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Province Brands of Canada is a beverage technology & branded products company.

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Evive

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Evive specializes in producing frozen smoothie cubes with nutritious ingredients and plant-based proteins.

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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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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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Sollio Cooperative Group

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La Coop fédérée is an agri-food federation of cooperatives that represent agricultural producers and consumers.

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KitchenMate

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Reshaping your food experience with the only automated restaurant for your workplace. Stay safe, stay on-site with real food, cooked anytime

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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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Give and Go

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A manufacturer of baked goods based in Toronto

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Outcast Foods

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Upcycling Surplus Food for a Better Future

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General Assembly Pizza

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General Assembly Pizza operates as a simple, fast, and casual pizza restaurant.

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Chinova Bioworks

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Chinova Bioworks uses a natural and effective antimicrobial chitosan polymer with broad spectrum protection.

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Fody Food

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Fody Food creates a delicious, gut-friendly, low FODMAP foods.

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Provision Analytics

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Provision Analytics creates practical and precise software for food processors and manufacturers.

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TruLeaf

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TruLeaf Smart Plant Systems® are an innovative technology that leverages multi-level farming for biomedical and food markets.

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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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SOL Cuisine

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SOL Cuisine is a Toronto vegetarian restaurants Service Provider Company.

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Partake Brewing

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Partake Brewing is the craft non-alcoholic beer brand.

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GreenSpace Brands

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GreenSpace Brands is a brand ideation team that develops, markets and sells premium natural food products to consumers.

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DAVIDsTEA

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DAVIDsTEA is a web platform offering a variety of tea blends and accessories.

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Else Labs Inc

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Else is a startup focused on developing technologies that give people freedom to choose how they spend their time.

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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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YPC Technologies

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YPC Technologies is a startup in food robotics with the vision to make good food more accessible.

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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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Savormetrics

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Savormetrics makes sensors and air cleaning systems to reduce food spoilage.

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Trendi

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Trendi uses robotics to rescue and upcycle excess and misfit food that was headed for landfills or compost.

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Uproot Food Collective

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Emerging Food Company Platform

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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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Chickapea

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Chickapea is a pasta product made entirely from organic chickpeas and lentils.

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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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Fruit d’Or inc

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Fruit d’Or inc. is Canada’s leading producer and processor of organic cranberries and blueberries

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Dose Juice

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Dose Juices creates and markets cold pressed juices, organic smoothies and nut milks

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QuantWave Technologies

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QuantWave was established to pursue the growing demands of intelligent sensing platform for industrial IoT applications.

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Mercer International

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

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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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Sweet Reason Beverage

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Sweet Reason Beverage is a CBD-infused beverage company

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Parachute Coffee

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Parachute Coffee offers subscription service coffee shipped directly to its customers’ doorsteps.

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Eureka93

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Eureka93 is one of the largest hemp cultivation and CBD extraction operations in North America.

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Herve Edibles

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Herve Edibles produces exquisite desserts, macarons, candies and chocolates that combine contemporary design with spectacular flavors.

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Feedback

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Mobile App, Marketplace, Food & Beverage, Dynamic Pricing

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Bonne O

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Bonne O operates as an innovative beverage system developer.

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Mother Raw

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Mother Raw is a line of plant-powered dressings, marinades, dips, condiments and quesos.

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ClickDishes

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ClickDishes partners with local restaurants to enable their consumers to order and pay directly through their phones.

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Alasko

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Alasko Foods specializes in the supply of branded and private label frozen fruits & vegetables.

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SimplyProtein

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SimplyProtein is a natural foods company that offers a line of plant-based snacks.

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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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Mud Foods Limited

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Mud Pies are created using only the very finest, fresh and natural ingredients grown or reared in the sunny South Downs.

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FreshSpoke

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FreshSpoke platform gives wholesale food buyers the ability to buy direct from local suppliers and delivering using the excess capacity.

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Drinkable

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Drinkable is utilizing breakthroughs in electrochemistry to provide effortless, affordable, and accurate drinking water testing.

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Coopland & Son

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UK’s third largest bakery chain.

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Avena Foods

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Avena Foods is a producer of pure, uncontaminated, organic certified, gluten-free oats through its Purity Protocol farm.

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Cove Kombucha

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Cove Kombucha is a food and beverage company that specializes in kombucha, a fermented tea beverage.

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Natrix Separations

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Natrix Separations delivers multi-cycle disposable chromatography products to the life science, food, beverage and water markets.

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Dr. Oetker Canada

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Dr. Oetker Canada is the Canadian division of the Oetker Group, an international food and foodservices corporation.

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Steam Whistle

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All natural, craft brewed, Canada’s Premium Pilsner. Do one thing really, really well.

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Well Juicery Canada

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Well Juicery specializes in the fields of manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing, food science, infusion, and farm to market.

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Bench Brewing Co.

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Bench Brewing Co. is an award-winning craft brewery company.

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PivoHub

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PivoHub is a B2B craft beer ordering platform that allows brewers to easily sell their products to retailers.

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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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Oatbox

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Oatbox offers delivery service of healthy, tasty breakfast cereals, including handcrafted granola, oatmeal, breakfast bars, and more.

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Culcherd

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Culcherd is a dairy alternative company making delicious, kind, plant-based foods that are rich in probiotics.

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Quality Green

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Quality Green is an ACMPR-Licensed Producer based in Canfield, Ontario.

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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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Satellite Farms

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Next generation indoor farming

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Ribitt

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Ribitt is a mobile rewards application that discovers local shops in every neighborhood.

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Canadian Food Innovators Network (CFIN)

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Canadian Food Innovators Network (CFIN) is an initiative aimed to boost product development

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CCL Industries

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CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions.

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Coconuts Naturally

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Coconuts Naturally is a Cornwall-based Company.

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OurFoodFuture

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OurFoodFuture working to reduce food waste

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Silversmith Brewing Company

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An independently owned craft brewery in Niagara .

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Good Food For Good

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Good Food For Good is an organic food B corp certified company.

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Primo Water Corporation

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Primo Water Corporation (PRMW) is a producers of beverages on behalf of retailers, brand owners and distributors.

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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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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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Drizzle

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Drizzle is a manufacturer of urban honey.

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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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Pacini

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Pacini uses the new spelling recommended by the Superior Council of the French language and approved by the French Academy.

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Flourish Pancakes

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Flourish Pancakes is a whole foods company that focuses on creating delicious Protein Pancakes with Non-GMO, All-Natural, Ingredients.

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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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E.O.I Technologies

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E.O.I Technologies develops a remote laser-based vibration sensor intended for rapid and large-scale data collection.

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Food Cycle Science

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commercial food waste composting

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Meatme.ca

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A better way to eat meat

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Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc.

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Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. operates and licenses convenience stores.

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Dairy Queen

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Dairy Queen develops, licenses, and services a system of fast food stores in Canada.

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La compagnie 2 Amériks inc

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La compagnie 2 Amériks inc specializes in production, import and distribution of quinoa-based products.

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Tuf Candy Inc.

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Tuf Candy operates as a food marketing and innovation company that aims to create functional and environmentally-friendly food products.

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Nise

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Nise offers an app-controlled sous vide circulator that makes cooking easy.

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Saputo Inc.

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Saputo produces, markets, and distributes various dairy products.

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