True North Free Trade

From humble beginnings, to now over 42 fresh market stores and legions of loyal fans across Ontario, we’ve remained dedicated to keeping true to our roots and providing our customers with quality products, great value, exceptional customer service and a wonderful shopping experience.

Our founders, Frank Lovsin and Frank Resek, opened Freson Bros. as a small butcher shop in Hinton, Alberta in 1955. Just one year later, the shop already needed to grow to keep up. The owners soon realized that their commitment to home-grown quality could be expanded well beyond meat. Shelves were soon stocked with Alberta produce and fresh baking. Since that first store opened, Freson Bros. has grown to be a trusted member of Alberta’s communities.

A specialty grocer and gathering place for Alberta families and friends since 1959. Italian Centre Shop’s long devotion to authentic Italian and European tastes & traditions creates community, love & belonging makes your weekly shopping trip an experience. A major retailer, wholesaler and distributor of specialty imports, grocery and fresh produce to stores and restaurants with five locations in Edmonton’s Little Italy, Southside, West End, Calgary, and Sherwood Park - you’ll find a treasure trove of groceries & delicacies from all over the world.

Jonluca started in 2010 with two guys, a few chest freezers, and an ice cream delivery van. Today, Jonluca is a national distributor operating from a 77,000 Square feet climate-controlled facility in Vaughan Ontario and a 20,000 Square feet climate-controlled facility in Burnaby, BC.

Longo’s is a family-operated Canadian organization that started in 1956 when three brothers, Tommy, Joe and Gus opened their first fruit market. What began as a small store has grown to a company that operates 36 stores in communities across Toronto and the GTA, as well as Grocery Gateway, the leader in online sales of home-delivered groceries.

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Metro developed the Locally Sourced program as a commitment to provide our customers with easier access to more local products. The program is our platform to support suppliers from local communities across Ontario and Canada. The program continues to grow and now supports hundreds of products from +150 local vendors available on our shelves so our customers can discover and enjoy.

Proudly Canadian, with headquarters in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, Sobeys has been serving the food shopping needs of Canadians since 1907. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Empire Company Limited (TSX: EMP.A), Sobeys owns or franchises approximately 1,500 stores in all 10 provinces under retail banners that include Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, and Lawton’s Drug Stores as well as more than 350 retail fuel locations. Sobeys, its franchisees, and affiliates employ more than 120,000 peopl e. More information on Sobeys Inc. can be found www.sobeyscorporate.com.

Tree of Life is a full service, importer and distributor an end to end solution, providing sales and distribution, nationally to retailers across Canada. We also help domestic brands with sales and distribution and are passionate about building brands in Canada. Our business segments include Food & Beverage products that are Specialty, Grocery, Centre of Store, Natural and Organic, Fresh & Deli, for Retail and Food Service.

For 40 years, Whole Foods Market has been the world’s leading natural and organic foods retailer. As the first certified organic national grocer, Whole Foods Market has more than 500 stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Established in 1951 and recently celebrating its 70th anniversary, 3M Canada was one of the first international subsidiaries opened by 3M, with its head office and original manufacturing site in London, Ontario. Today, 3M Canada continues to have a strong presence across the province with over 1500 employees with our headquarters in London and six ISO 50001 manufacturing facilities in London, Perth, and Brockville which manufacture a wide range of products used in Canadian homes and businesses every day.

BlackBerry® QNX® is a trusted supplier of safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors, frameworks and development tools, and provides expert support and services for building the world’s most critical embedded systems. The company’s technology is trusted in more than 195 million vehicles and is deployed in embedded systems around the world, across a range of industries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, transportation, heavy machinery and robotics. Founded in 1980, BlackBerry QNX is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada and was acquired by BlackBerry in 2010.

The Loblaw Innovation Team serves the enterprise to drive a culture of innovation while identifying opportunities and adopting value-add solutions. If you have an innovative technology solution that you would like to share with us we want to hear from you!

We generate, transmit and distribute electricity for Quebec and foreign markets. We operate the largest transmission system in North America.

Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.” We power the world's AI systems, with the NVIDIA GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world.For cybersecurity in particular, NVIDIA has created Morpheus, an open application framework that enables cybersecurity developers to create optimized AI pipelines for filtering, processing and classifying large volumes of real-time data. Morpheus' pre-trained AI models, allow developers to build tools to continuously inspect network and server telemetry at scale. Bringing a new level of information security to data centers, Morpheus enables dynamic protection, real-time telemetry, and adaptive defenses for detecting and remediating cybersecurity threats.

The Halifax Port Authority manages and leads in the development of world class marine terminal infrastructure in the Port of Halifax handling container ships, cruise vessels and other ocean going cargo carrying fleets. Through our recently founded living lab for the maritime transportation sector "The PIER" we engage further with partners on pioneering new technology, innovation and research throughout our port ecosystem.

Prelco is a specialist in the manufacture of complex and innovative glass products to meet the needs of its customers in niche architectural markets for whom we design and manufacture glazing for commercial and institutional buildings, residential towers as well as glazing for specialized land, rail and marine vehicles for the industrial and military markets.

RBC is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance, and creating value for our clients and communities. We are one of North America's leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis.

Telesat is one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, providing reliable and secure satellite-delivered communications solutions worldwide to broadcast, telecom, corporate and government customers. Proudly Canadian and headquartered in Ottawa, our state-of-the-art satellite fleet delivers HD television channels to millions of Canadians, as well as Internet and wireless LTE connectivity to rural communities that are beyond the reach of cable and fibre. Backed by 50+ years of engineering excellence, Telesat is undertaking the largest space program in Canadian history: Telesat Lightspeed™, a state-of-the-art, revolutionary Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. Telesat Lightspeed will deliver affordable, fibre-speed Internet and 5G connectivity everywhere on Earth, including to the entirety of Canada.