These two managers proudly represented the Bradford Plant at the Food Safety Awards—proving that safety and style can go hand in hand.
Who is Jaime and Harvey?
This three-letter acronym stands for the annual event where team members are recognized for living out the company's core values.
What are the AVAs (Annual Value Awards)?
In this year, Maple Leaf Foods faced a major listeria outbreak linked to contaminated deli meats, resulting in a nationwide recall and significant changes to food safety protocols
What is 2008?
Essential to office survival—until it inevitably runs out of water, milk powder, or chocolate powder... usually all at once, and during a caffeine emergency
What is the coffee machine?
This global event led to temperature checks, social distancing, staggered shifts, and a whole new appreciation for face masks at our plant.
What is Covid 19?
With years of dedication, deep company knowledge, and a history that stretches back further than most lunchroom appliances, this salaried team member has been with Maple Leaf Foods the longest.
Who is Jessie?
This three-letter acronym represents the global food safety audit that keeps our standards high and our products shelf-ready
What is the BRC (British Retail Consortium) Audit?
In this year, Maple Leaf Foods opened this facility in London, Ontario—Canada’s largest and most advanced poultry processing plant.
What is 2019?
These humble utensils are in constant demand, often hoarded in desk drawers, and guarded like gold—because somehow, they vanish the moment its time for an event .
What are plastic forks?
It’s big, it’s empty, and it has major office potential—yet this mysterious plant space remains untouched, waiting patiently to fulfill its destiny
What is FUT?
They walked in on the same day, but took completely different paths—these three salaried employees all started on the exact same date, each in a unique role
Who is Aletta, Olushola and Vibin?
It’s not a tree fluid, but this three-letter software helps us manage everything from inventory to invoices—and might cause mild panic when it crashes.
What is SAP (Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing)?
In 2020, Maple Leaf Foods achieved this major environmental milestone, becoming the first major food company in the world to be certified as this.
What is carbon neutral?
It makes things shiny, permanent, and slightly terrifying to operate. One wrong move, and your document becomes a hot, wrinkled memory
What is the laminator?
The year of Nirvana, dial-up internet, and apparently our Wi-Fi password.
What is 1991?
Before becoming a workplace legend, this talented team member hit all the right notes—literally—by winning a saxophone competition in Boston.
Who is Carolina?
A security measure that requires users to provide two or more forms of verification to access their account
What is MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)?
Maple Leaf Foods’ sustainability plan includes a commitment to reduce absolute environmental footprint by this percentage by 2030.
What is 50%?
This hardworking piece of equipment is known less for printing and more for jamming, flashing error messages, and crushing dreams—especially right before a big deadline.
What is the Production printer?
Bradford, Ontario, is renowned for its rich agricultural heritage, particularly this area, often referred to as Ontario's "vegetable patch."
What is the Holland Marsh?
With a palate more refined than most sommeliers, this team member has tasted over 2,500 different beers—and probably has the Untappd app on speed dial
Who is Matt?
This international food safety standard, rigorously followed by Maple Leaf Foods, focuses on hazard analysis and critical control points in food production.
What is HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points)?
This was the year Maple Leaf Foods was founded—back when sliced bread was still a new invention and quality Canadian food was just getting started
What is 1927?
After the mysterious disappearance of its predecessor, this shiny new device now bravely beams PowerPoints in the boardroom—guarded closely and plugged in very securely.
What is the new boardroom projector?
It’s large enough to fit a football field, a small parade, and still have space left over for people to ask, “Wait, where’s that again?” This is the total size of our facility
What is 112,000 square feet?