Food Safety, Top Quality, and Great Taste Since 1958
David McAlpine founded the business in 1958 after immigrating to Canada from Scotland. The business started as a butcher shop on Plains Road East in Burlington ON. He quickly built a fine reputation offering customers excellent product and service.
In 1965 the business was incorporated in the province of Ontario and soon moved to its current location on Enfield Road. By this time the business had transformed from a neighbourhood butcher shop to a custom meat processing facility dedicated to serving the restaurant and food service industry in Ontario.
In the early 1990s the company upgraded its facility to become a Canadian Federally Registered meat plant. This allowed the company to better serve its larger clients and to expand its market to cover all of Canada and USA.
Today after more than six decades in business the company has gone through three generations of family ownership and multiple transformations. Through all these changes the company has stayed true to the three things that have mattered the most: food safety, top quality, and great taste.
The company currently operates out of its fully owned Canadian Federally Registered meat and seafood processing facility in Burlington ON (Est. 494). Our products are prepared in strict compliance with approved HACCP systems. The facility follows all regulations set forth by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). Halal certified products will adhere to guidelines by CFIA and the pertinent Halal certifying body. We are continuously monitored and inspected onsite by CFIA inspectors which assures rigorous and ongoing compliance.
The company has the technical capabilities and resources to develop and produce new food products to meet emerging market requirements. We are always keen to work with Private Label clients with new ideas. We can offer products, recipes, and specifications developed by us or work with those provided by prospective Private Label clients.
As the company looks to the future under new management it continues to improvise, invest, and adapt to the rapidly evolving Canadian marketplace. We now offer ethnic, international, and fusion style food products, some of which can be halal certified. We are also setting our sights on exports to overseas markets. Regardless of what the future holds, or how much our business changes, the one thing our customers can always count on is our iron-clad, decades-long, commitment to food safety, top quality, and great taste.