https://dailycoffeenews.com/category/coffee-roasting/by-region-coffee-roasting/canada-by-region-coffee-roasting/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:01:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/02/20/cafe-william-opens-monumental-all-electric-roaster-in-quebec/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:29:16 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=178031 With support from numerous government agencies, Quebec, Canada-based coffee company Café William has opened what it claims is the world’s “first 100% electric industrial roaster.” The roasting system, which was...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/02/02/the-origin-story-of-turtle-island-coffee-in-vancouver-b-c/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:11:43 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=177542 A new Indigenous-owned coffee company based in Victoria, British Columbia, called Turtle Island Coffee has launched with the goal of exposing more people to high quality specialty coffee and Indigenous...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/01/31/torontos-pilot-coffee-roasters-acquiring-bridgehead-coffee-for-3-6-million/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:40:07 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=177528 Toronto, Ontario-based specialty coffee roaster and retailer Pilot Coffee Roasters is acquiring Ottawa-based Bridgehead Coffee in a deal worth approximately US$3.6 million.  Bridgehead, which has 21 coffee shop locations throughout...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/11/anarchy-coffee-is-happily-taking-orders-in-kelowna-b-c/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 13:30:34 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175305 In the outdoorsy Canadian city of Kelowna, British Columbia, a plucky coffee company by the name of Anarchy Coffee Roasters has found some structure with the opening of its first...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/10/12/three-questions-with-muna-mohammed-of-canadas-eight50-coffee/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/10/12/three-questions-with-muna-mohammed-of-canadas-eight50-coffee/#comments Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:55:41 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=173993 Born in Ethiopia as the granddaughter of a coffee farmer but raised mainly in Canada, Eight50 Coffee Founder Muna Mohammed had a profound experience when seeing coffee’s origins for the...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/10/12/three-questions-with-muna-mohammed-of-canadas-eight50-coffee/feed/ 1 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/04/27/espresso-is-flowing-at-black-creek-coffee-in-georgetown-ontario/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/04/27/espresso-is-flowing-at-black-creek-coffee-in-georgetown-ontario/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:38:12 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=169351 A new coffee shop from Black Creek Coffee in Georgetown, Ontario, has opened the local floodgates to specialty coffee. Debuting last fall about an hour northwest of Toronto, the Black...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/04/27/espresso-is-flowing-at-black-creek-coffee-in-georgetown-ontario/feed/ 1 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2022/10/18/roast-magazine-announces-2023-roaster-of-the-year-winners/ Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:00:51 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=164915 Rabbit Hole Roasters and Cafe Kreyol have won Roast magazine’s 19th annual Roaster of the Year competition. The two coffee roasting companies will be featured in the trade publication’s November/December 2022...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2022/04/26/olams-ofi-acquiring-canadian-roaster-club-coffee-for-117-million/ Tue, 26 Apr 2022 17:03:00 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=161417 International food and ingredients company Ofi has announced it is acquiring 116-year-old Canadian coffee roasting and packaging company Club Coffee for CA$150 million (approximately $117 million USD). Ofi (which originally...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2022/02/24/kw-coffee-collective-brings-co-roasting-to-ontario-canada/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2022/02/24/kw-coffee-collective-brings-co-roasting-to-ontario-canada/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:39:21 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=160251 A new shared roasting (a.k.a. co-roasting) business called KW Coffee Collective has arrived in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, offering small roasting companies and retailers a relatively low-barrier option for launching or scaling...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2022/02/24/kw-coffee-collective-brings-co-roasting-to-ontario-canada/feed/ 1 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2021/11/30/three-questions-with-mickey-mcleod-of-25-year-old-salt-spring-coffee/ Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:15:48 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=158461 As it celebrates a quarter century in business, the progressive Canadian roasting company Salt Spring Coffee is focused on its roots, which are deeply embedded in environmental sustainability. The British...]]>