Our Roots in Canada
As Canada's leading bakery, Bimbo Canada is Nourishing A Better World through sustainable, highly productive and deeply humane values that feed Canadian families delicious, high-quality baked goods and snacks.
As Canada's largest and oldest bakery, we have been feeding Canadians delicious and nutritious food for more than 110 years.
While not everyone is familiar with the Bimbo Canada name, you have likely enjoyed at least one of our many brands at breakfast, lunch or dinner. We produce and distribute more than 1,000 products across 18 brands Canadians know and trust, like: Dempster's®, Villaggio®, POM®, Bon Matin®, Ben's®, Stonemill®, Takis®, Sanissimo, Vachon® and more.
Our baked goods and snacks are high-quality, affordable, yet innovative and exciting. We're committed to providing nutritious products for the whole family. We are inspired by global flavours and trends and are constantly reinventing how we bring them to Canadians with products made from simple ingredients.
In May 2014, the company was purchased by Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest baking company with operations in 33 countries. In 2015, the company purchased Vachon Bakery and in 2016, acquired Stonemill Bakehouse.
We are headquartered in Etobicoke, Ontario, and operate 16 bakeries, 11 distribution centres and 183 depots across the country. We employ more than 4,300 associates from coast to coast.
We are dedicated to building a diverse workplace that promotes equity and belonging, where all associates can develop and contribute to the transformation of our company, the baking industry and our communities.
Nourishing Careers
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Accessibility
Bimbo Canada is committed to complying with the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Our Accessibility Statement and multi-year accessibility plan are available below. All related policies are also available upon request.
Our Mission
Delicious and nutritious baked goods and snacks in the hands of all
Our Philosophy
To build a sustainable, highly productive and deeply humane company.
Our Purpose
To Nourish a Better World.
Our History
We are proud to have fed Canadians for more than 110 years as Canada's leading bakery.
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Five Canadian baking companies merged under the Canada Bread name and began an exciting new business venture.
The company expands to new cities across Canada, focusing on greater efficiencies and new marketing strategies.
Dempster's Bread Limited is purchased by a subsidiary of Canada Bread and becomes the company's flagship brand.
Quebec-based Multi-Marques is acquired, bringing with it leading brands like POM.
Canada Bread is purchased by Grupo Bimbo, the largest baking company in the world.
Vachon Bakery, known for Canadian favourites like Jos Louis and Ah! Caramel is acquired.
Bimbo Canada acquires Stonemill Bakehouse adding naturally fermented and slow crafted bread to its portfolio.
Canada Bread changes its name to Bimbo Canada [pronounced Beem-bo] to align to that of our parent company, Grupo Bimbo.
Bimbo Canada celebrates 110 years of service as Canada’s leading bakery.
Bimbo starts the transition to recyclable and municipally compostable cardboard clips on our bread bags.
Bimbo Canada operates 16 bakeries, 11 distribution centres and employs more than 4,300 associates.
Our Name
In 2018, Canada Bread changed its name to Bimbo Canada to align to that of our parent company, Grupo Bimbo, one of the world's oldest and largest baking companies, who recently celebrated their 75th anniversary. The decision to change our name to Bimbo Canada was a natural progression for our company.
The term Bimbo [pronounced Beem-bo] was selected by our founders as a play on the popular game Bingo and animated children's movie Bambi. It does not mean anything in Spanish. In colloquial Italian, "bimbo" is short for baby boy (bambino). In Hungarian, it means cocoon. In China, the phoneme used for bread sounds a lot like Bimbo. So clearly, being part of a worldwide company was baked into our identity from the very beginning.
Diversity, Equity and Belonging
We Value the Person and follow our Golden Rule of treating everyone with Respect, Fairness, Trust and Care.
We are dedicated to building an environment and workplace that is diverse and promotes equity and belonging. Together, we are creating a business where people from different origins, geographies and experiences can develop and contribute to the transformation of our company, the baking industry and the communities that we live and work in.
PRODUCTS SOLD BY MORE THAN 18 BRANDS
IN 2021 SALES
BAKERIES
DISTRIBUTION CENTRES
ASSOCIATES ACROSS CANADA
FRANCHISEES AND DISTRIBUTORS WITH MORE THAN 1,097 ROUTES
Countries THAT WE OPERATE IN AS A PROUD MEMBER OF GRUPO BIMBO
Our Beliefs
Our beliefs are embraced and brought to life through the everyday actions of our associates. These beliefs represent a common language that defines why each of us work for the company, where we are headed and how we will collectively transform the baking industry to better serve more Canadians.
