Maple Leaf Foods

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is a prominent consumer protein company headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, that specializes in producing high-quality food products. The company offers a diverse portfolio of brands, including Maple Leaf, Maple Leaf Prime, Maple Leaf Natural Selections, Schneiders, Schneiders Country Naturals, Mina, Lightlife, and Field Roast. Its product range encompasses prepared meats, ready-to-cook meals, fresh pork and poultry, and plant protein offerings. Maple Leaf Foods operates primarily in Canada, the United States, Japan, and China, employing approximately 11,500 people while focusing on innovation and quality in the protein sector.

Nima Feizi

Digital Innovation Analyst

11 past transactions

CaroMeats

Seed Round in 2022
CaroMeats grows healthy, delicious meat directly from animal cells. No environmental damage is caused. No animals are harmed.

MycoTechnology

Series E in 2022
MycoTechnology utilizes fungi-based food-processing platforms to transform the flavor and value of agricultural products. The platform can be used to solve a variety of challenges faced by the food, beverage, and flavor industries. MycoTechnology has released ClearTaste, an all-natural, GMO-free, organic bitter blocker that is Kosher and Halal certified. ClearTaste improves the flavor of various agricultural products. MycoTechnology also engages in fermenting agricultural products with strains of gourmet fungi. The company offers myceliated chocolate as well as robusta and arabica coffee beans. It develops and licenses technology to the industry to naturally improve the flavor of robusta and arabica coffee. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Aurora, Colorado.

VIAU Foods

Acquisition in 2018
VIAU produces a range of value-added prepared meat products including Italian cooked meats, sausages, pizza toppings, shaved steak and meatballs, and is the Canadian market leader in cooked and dry-cured pepperoni. It also produces a range of gourmet deli and premium charcuterie products including salametti, capicollo, pancetta and sliced chorizo. VIAU is a leading supplier of dried pepperoni and other pizza toppings to the North American foodservice industry and markets its products through retailers across Canada.

Entomo Farms

Series A in 2018
Entomo Farms mission is to make an important contribution in the feeding of an estimated world population of 9 billion people in 2050 and to establish a new paradigm of perception and desirability as they motivate people across the globe to consume insect protein. They aims to create a global awareness of the relevance and socio-political impact of each person’s protein ecological footprint.

Field Roast

Acquisition in 2017
Field Roast Grain Meat Co., Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in producing and marketing vegan meat and cheese products. Founded in 1997, the company offers a diverse range of items, including vegetarian frankfurters, roasts, sausages, deli slices, cutlets, and loaves. Field Roast has gained recognition for its premium, grain-based offerings, making its products available in retail stores, restaurants, and sports stadiums across the United States. As of early 2018, Field Roast operates as a subsidiary of Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

Lightlife Foods

Acquisition in 2017
Lightlife Foods, Inc. specializes in producing vegetarian food, offering a range of meatless products such as tempeh, sausages, hot dogs, deli items, breakfast options, vegan ground beef, and burgers. Founded in 1979 and based in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, the company distributes its products through grocery stores across the United States and Canada. Originally known as The Tempeh Works, Inc., it rebranded to Lightlife Foods, Inc. in July 2000. Lightlife Foods, Inc. was previously a subsidiary of Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

The Puratone Corp.

Acquisition in 2012
The Puratone Corp. is a manitoba hog production company.

Bernard Matthews Bakery

Acquisition in 2007
Bernard Matthews Bakery is a is a packages meat company.

The French Croissant Co.

Acquisition in 2006
The French Croissant Co. manufactures croissants products.

Schneider Corp.

Acquisition in 2004
Schneider Corp. operates as a producers of premium branded quality food products, specializing in packaged processed meats, poultry and grocery products.

Grace Baking Co.

Acquisition in 2002
Grace Baking Co. is a independent producer of fresh and frozen artisan bread products.
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