Company Responsibility

Sustainability at Maple Leaf

Our Role In The Community

Our Charitable Initiatives

Awards & Recognition

Product of the Year Canada

 The Product of the Year was awarded to Maple Leaf Natural Selections in 2011 for the fresh deli category. 

Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures

Maple Leaf was listed on Canada's 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures in 2007 and 2010.

Best New Product Awards

Canadian Family 2010 Food Awards

Business Operations & Branding

Our Meat Products Group

We produce high quality meat products at a low-value price.

Our Meat Products are made up of two brands, Maple Leaf and Schneiders™, in addition to Maple Leaf Prime Naturally™ and multiple household brands including Shopsy’s™, Mitchell’s Gourmet Foods™,  Larsen™,  Parma™  and Hygrade™. Products include packaged meats, fresh pork, poultry and turkey.

The Company mainly markets its products in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Japan.

Personally, I am a big fan of maple leaf chicken, I use their pre-cut boneless chicken breast halves to make my favourite recipes; Chicken Wellington, and Chicken Cordon Bleu. 

Our Bakery Products Group

Our North American and U.K. baking business has superior brands and market share as well as the leading national brand of fresh bread in Canada.

Fresh Bakery is a leading producer of healthy fresh products including whole wheat, organic and multi-grain breads, rolls and artisan bread products. Dempster’s™ is the leading national brand, while numerous other household brands including Ben’s™,POM™, Bon Matin™, Chevalier™ and Olafson’s™ round out the books.

Dempsters bread is usually a part 

 

Maple Leaf Frozen Bakery is a superior North American manufacturer and distributor of frozen unbaked, half-baked and fully baked breads, rolls, bagels, and artisan breads for retail and service customers. Brands include Grace Baking, California Goldminer™ and the Wholesome Harvest™.

Maple Leaf Bakery is international, and the U.K. is one of the leading specialty bakeries producing bagels, croissants, bakery products and snacks which are marketed in the United Kingdom and Europe. It operates the largest bagel manufacturing facility in the U.K. and has established New York Bakery Co.™ as a top brand.

The Company also owns and operates Olivieri Foods Limited, Canada’s leading maker of fresh pasta and sauce products.

Our Agribusiness Group

Agribusiness operations include hog production, rendering (turning animal waste and fat into useful products, ex. lard)  and biodiesel, they are an integral part of our protein operations.

Rothsay is Canada’s biggest recycler of animal by-products into valuable products including animal feeds, amino acid supplements and other service industry uses. The company produces biodiesel for domestic and international markets at its facility in Montreal, Quebec, the first Canadian plant dedicated to commercial biodiesel production. Biodiesel is a clean burning, biodegradable and renewable fuel made from a variety of recycled feedstocks including vegetable oils, animal fats and cooking oils.

Biodiesel! Its amazing, renewable fuel made from vegetable oils and animal fats. Maple Leaf is the first Canadian producer of commercial biodiesel which is very beneficial for the enviroment. 

Maple Leaf Foods: Tracing back 100 years

Maple Leaf Foods was founded over 100 years ago through the merge of multiple superior food companies.

In 1991 the union of Maple Leaf Mills Limited and Canada Packers Inc. created the company currently known as Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Canada’s largest food processor. In 1995 McCain Capital Corporation and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board attained regulatory attention in the company from Hillsdown Holdings plc and continue to be controlling shareholders today.

Maple Leaf Mills was formed in 1961 through the union of the Maple Leaf Milling Company Limited, Toronto Elevators Limited and Purity Flour Mills Limited. Its roots can be traced back to 1845 to Grantham Mills, built in 1836 in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Canada Packers Inc. was created in 1927 in Toronto, Ontario through the merge of the Harris Abbatoir Company, Gunns Limited and the William Davies Company. Canada Packers Inc. lead the meat processing industry and was a superior researcher, processor and marketer of a wide range of meat and agri products nationionally and internationally.

 Maple Leaf Foods Inc. owns 90% of Canada Bread Company, Limited which was established in 1911 by the union of five separate companies. In the last 100 years Canada Bread has developed and became an significant manufacturer of value-incorporated flour-based products including common household brands such as Dempsters and Oliveiri.