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Breads, cakes and patisserie for sale at the Berman's Bakery retail bread shop in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem Bread baking in a traditional oven This is a list of notable bakeries . A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour -based food baked in an oven such as bread , cakes , pastries , and pies . [ 1 ]
While the Model Bakery established George Weston as Canada's biggest baker, he had already begun to move beyond bread into other lines of baked goods. Model Bakery "biscuit travellers" or salesmen, Soho and Phoebe streets, Toronto, postcard, ca. 1910. By 1897, he had set up a separate shop for the making of cakes, crumpets, pastries and buns.
In 1996, Maple Leaf Bakery UK was established in Rotherham as a speciality bakery subsidiary of Canada Bread which in turn is 89.8% owned by Maple Leaf Foods. It operates from a total of six sites in the UK and employs around 1,200 employees.
Loblaw Companies Limited is a Canadian retailer encompassing corporate and franchise supermarkets operating under 22 regional and market-segment banners (including Loblaws), as well as pharmacies, banking and apparel. [3]
In 2000, Commisso's bought Lanzarotta Wholesale Grocers Limited (LWG) - a private family-owned Ontario company. [3] At the time, LWG was one of Canada's largest, most successful independent wholesale grocers, at distribution rates of nearly 10,000 products to 7,000 retailers a week.
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 ...
Interior of the Mississauga store. Highland Farms Inc. is a Canadian family-owned regional supermarket chain in the Greater Toronto Area.Highland Farms was founded in 1963 by brothers Charles Coppa and John Louis "Louie" Coppa, with their first location at 1558 Queen Street West in Toronto.
Longo's was founded in 1956 by Italian immigrant brothers Joe, Tommy and Gus Longo, [1] [2] who immigrated to Canada in 1951 from Termini Imerese, Sicily. [3] They established their first store at the intersection of Yonge Street and Castlefield Avenue in Toronto, with the name "Broadway Fruit Market". [4]