Category: food & beverages

Food Safety Solutions Canada Inc is a consulting firm based in Airdrie, Alberta, specializing in food safety. Established in 2009, the company offers consulting, auditing, and training services to various sectors within the food industry, including food processing, food service, packaging, retail, and distribution. With over 100 years of combined experience, they assist clients in developing and improving their food safety systems.

The firm provides customized consulting services and pre-made templates to help clients navigate regulatory requirements. They conduct audits based on Global Food Safety Initiative standards and offer training programs designed to educate food industry professionals on best practices and compliance. Led by experienced directors, the company focuses on delivering practical and sustainable food safety solutions tailored to the unique needs of each client. Their diverse clientele includes small businesses and large corporations, all benefiting from their expertise in meeting Canadian Food Inspection Agency regulations and achieving certification success.

Appellation Wine Marketing is a customer focused, British Columbia based wine importer and distributor, specializing in the sales and marketing of fine wine, spirits, and specialty beverages to the Western Canadian market.

A leading distributor of exceptional estate-grown wines, Appellation represents independent wineries located in several of the world’s premiere wine-producing regions.

Appellation’s sales coverage includes 15 industry professionals. Our combined team has over 150 years of sales experience in the Western Canadian beverage alcohol industry. All of our Appellation team members hold a minimum of either a level 2-ISG or WSET certificate, and we have team members who have completed their ISG or WSET Diploma.

Strange Fellows Brewing was opened in December 2014. We are a brewery that is West Coast crafted and inspired by the old world that goes beyond the ordinary to celebrate that which is Strange.

Brewery and tasting room located at 1345 Clark Drive in Vancouver BC.

Founded in 1996, Unique Foods Canada Inc. has grown into an impressive national distributor in the beverage industry. At Unique Foods, we specialize in importing specialty, high-end & healthy beverages to Canada.
Unique Foods Canada has expanded its reach well beyond the beverage industry. Continued growth, solid planning and a focus on making sure our customers needs come first, allows the outlook of Unique Foods to remain as promising as the unique and diverse product lines we are proud to represent.

We’ve been around for 20+ years, and are the Pioneers in bringing healthy “new age” products to Canada. We are as truly “Unique” as the products we offer, and we pride ourselves on being a cutting edge, turnkey, and progressive company. Let us earn your business, you will not be disappointed.

Some of the beverage portfolio includes: Icelandic Glacial water, Orangina citrus beverages, Koë kombucha etc…

Phone:
514.343.4973

Email:
jon@uniquefoodscanada.ca

A small brewery with a scrappy spirit, Alley Kat is Edmonton’s longest running micro-brewery. Our aim is to introduce beer lovers to great craft beer.

We brew five standard brands of beer that are available throughout the year in six packs of 341ml bottles and draught. They are Aprikat, Main Squeeze, Scona Gold, Full Moon, and Amber. These beers are supplemented by seasonal offerings packaged in 650ml bottles.

We market our beers throughout Alberta.

SABMiller is a global leader in the beer and soft drinks business, bringing refreshment and sociability to millions of people all over the world who enjoy our drinks. Through our local businesses we work in a way that improves livelihoods and builds communities.

SABMiller is passionate about brewing and have a long tradition of craftsmanship in making superb beer from high quality natural ingredients. We are local beer experts, producing more than 200 beers that are mostly freshly brewed from locally-grown ingredients and only sold in their country of origin. We also brew internationally famous beers such as Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Pilsner Urquell, Miller Genuine Draft and Grolsch. We produce our own soft drinks as well as beer and are one of the world’s largest bottlers of Coca-Cola drinks.

We are a FTSE-20 company, with shares trading on the London Stock Exchange, and we have a secondary listing on the Johannesburg stock exchange. We have 70,000 employees and are in more than 80 countries, from Australia to Zambia, Colombia to the Czech Republic and South Africa to the USA. SABMiller is the world’s second largest brewer and every minute of every day more than 140,000 bottles of SABMiller beer are sold.

In the year to 31 March 2014, we sold over 315 million hectolitres of lager, soft drinks and other alcoholic beverages, generating net producer revenues of $26.72 billion and earnings before interest, tax and amortisation (EBITA) of $6.45 billion.

ACC Label – Expert Advisors in Canadian food labelling

ACC Label offers its international clientele an all-inclusive service to assist them in complying with Canadian food labelling requirements. When entrusting your project to ACC Label, you are choosing a team of experts whose objective is to create added value for you and your business.

ACC Label has been serving the food industry since 1990. Our competitive edge lies in the combination of our regulatory, nutritional and linguistic expertise applied to food labelling. With over 25 years of experience, we are qualified to help you:

• Save precious time by rapidly identifying and resolving regulatory, nutritional and linguistic label issues;

• Avoid problems and costs related to non-compliance: correction and reprinting of labels, fines, product detention or recalls; legal actions (e.g. from victims of undeclared allergens) and the consequent negative impact on your company’s reputation and sales;

• Attract consumers by leveraging on your product’s qualities, while remaining legally compliant;

• Earn the trust of wholesale buyers, who pay as much attention to the legal compliance of your labels as to the attractiveness of the design.

PTI Foods is a distributor based in Mississauga, Ontario, specializing in South Asian food products since 1975. The company focuses on cultural authenticity, connecting North American consumers with South Asian flavors and traditions. PTI Foods serves both retail and wholesale markets through a network of in-house brands, including PTI, Shakti, and Sohna, as well as partner brands like Tata, Bikano, and Maggi.

The product range includes spices, pulses, flour, grains, pasta, noodles, tea, coffee, and seasonings, catering to both traditional and convenience-oriented consumers. PTI Foods emphasizes quality and cultural connection, aiming to resonate emotionally with its customers. The company operates with a commitment to strong relationships with partners and loyalty to South Asian culinary traditions, encapsulated in its tagline, “Distributing pyar (love) in food.”

Our clients’ greatest frustrations include:

They are missing out on potential revenue because they don’t have the equipment expertise to make the most reliable and profitable equipment choices.

Technology breaks down, and they can’t get the immediate support they need. Not only is it hard to get a hold of people, but often they aren’t dealing with individuals who are experts in the industry or educated on the machines. Repairs end up costing more than they should, take twice as long and sometimes the problem isn’t even solved.

With the high turnover in the industry, it’s difficult to ensure that each new staff member has the proper training to utilize the equipment the way it should be without many hours of hands-on training. This ends up being both costly and time-consuming for owners.

They can’t keep up with the industry technology innovations and trends that can increase quality, efficiency and most importantly, the bottom line.

Specialty Beverage Solutions is designed to provide you with the knowledge and insights to make the best equipment decisions for your business. We provide turnkey solutions that decrease onboarding times for staff, maximize equipment efficiency, and give access to 24/7 direct support, all while increasing your bottom line.

Our team provides complimentary beverage program analysis for owners who want an industry expert opinion of the effectiveness of their beverage programs. From this analysis, we provide owners with a breakdown of where they are winning, losing, and where there’s room to grow. Our goal is to show owners the gaps and opportunities to help increase their businesses’ ROI.

If this resonates with you and you’d like to learn more about how you can help your business, give us a call. Whether or not we decide to work together, our conversation will be filled with value and insights and can help you rethink your beverage program strategy.

Contact us or book with us today – sales@sbsolutions.ca

Big Sky Brands specializes in the development and manufacture of high-quality tinned mints and candy. Since its inception, Big Sky has grown to become the go-to supplier for specialty tinned mints in North America, with over 50 proprietary branded products as well as exclusive private label partnerships and licensed brands.

Founded in 1999, Big Sky Brands has proudly grown to become the largest private label mint manufacturer in North America and is home to a diverse branded line including Big Sky Sugarfree Mints, Clawhammer Organic Mints, Citrus Delights, Ginger Delights, Sunkist Sours and our new Good Time Organic Mints. Flavors range broadly from traditional peppermint and wintergreen to natural ginger and exotic fruit blends to wildly unconventional offerings including cotton candy, orange & crème, marshmallow and bubblegum mints.

Key facts about our product offerings…
• Clean ingredients across product offerings – 100% natural flavors and no artificial colors.
• Numerous formulation options including pure cane sugar, organic and sugarfree.
• Fully automated and GFSI certified production facilities.
• Kosher certified, gluten free, allergen free, GMO free.
• North American made.
• Custom printed and embossed tins available for private label.
• Aggressive pricing to outcompete all nationally branded product in category