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An early Canada Bread delivery wagon Dempster's Bread in Markham, Ontario. Canada Bread was founded in June 1911 following the merger of five of Canada's leading baking companies: Bredin Bread Company, Model Bakery (founded by George Weston), Toronto Bakery, Stuarts Limited and Boyd's Bakery. The founders of these acquired bakeries, their ...
Exterior of a typical Dominion store (at Don Mills Centre in Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario), prior to re-branding as Metro in late 2008. Metro, which had operated solely in Quebec and the Ottawa area, acquired A&P Canada from the U.S.-based parent company effective August 15, 2005. A&P retained a minority ownership share of the combined company ...
Miracle Food Mart was a supermarket chain in Ontario, Canada, owned by Steinberg's, a Quebec-based retailer in the 1970s and 1980s.. Steinberg purchased the Canadian division of Grand Union, with 38 stores, in June 1959 to make its entrance into Ontario.
They also began visiting bakeries in North America and Europe, as they considered the possibility of starting their own business. [4] Connell and Haynes opened ACE Bakery at 548 King Street West, downtown Toronto, in March 1993. Located in a former handbag factory, [8] the bakery cafe was initially a 100-loaf-a-day operation. [9]
The following year, Argus Corporation under new owner Conrad Black began to break up the national chain, including the sale of most Ontario stores and the rights to the name to A&P Canada; at that point, Dominion Stores Ltd. owned 60% of the Newfoundland operations. [4] By 1987, the latter had been fully sold to Baine Johnston. [5]
Le Pain Quotidien – global chain of bakery-cafés operating in many countries around the world. [2] It sells organic bread and cakes in a homey, rustic style. [3]Muffin Break – independent company which operates small coffee shops throughout the UK, Australia and New Zealand and India
A second location was opened at 106 Broadway, Welland, ON L3C 5L5 Welland, Ontario in 1967. In 1977, the Welland store was re-located to the Rose City Plaza on Ontario Road in Welland, a new 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m 2) building, operating under the name Food Terminal. The low-priced products and high quality service of the store, which ...
In 2012, Huff Post Business Canada reported that workers at a T&T Supermarket warehouse in Scarborough, Ontario, would head to a secret ballot vote on Monday, July 23, 2012, for unionization. The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) filed an application for certification with the Ontario Labour Relations Board on July 16, 2012.