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Why This Fresh-Roasted Nut Shop Beats the Grocery Aisle | Ayoub's
Personal Chef Meal Prep for 80 Households a Week | Fresh in Your Fridge
Why Friggin Lip Balm Refuses to Be Anything But a Lip Company
Tariffs, Lentils & Rice Cakes: Plum Good's Canadian Pivot
Selling Into Mexico: The Canadian Brand Playbook | Steve Sotto
Electric Kids: The Clean Electrolyte Drink Getting Kids to Drink Water
Peter Chapman on Getting Your Product on the Shelf — and in the Cart
Tariffs Hit Canada: What Canadian Brands Should Be Thinking About
Mushrooms in Chocolate: How MyCAO Built a Functional CPG Brand
Aaron Skelton on Getting Retail-Ready: Inside CHFA's Greenhouse
What a Distributor Really Wants Before They'll List Your Brand
Seven Summit Snacks: A Chocolate Scientist Builds an Energy Bar Brand
From a Yukon Farmers Market to Dragon's Den: How Klondike Kettle Corn Is Going National | Katie Young
"We Dropped Out of University to Make Ice Cream" — The Shaw's Ice Cream Story
"I Know a Guy" Isn't a Sourcing Strategy | SURCH Foods
From Farmers Market to Retail Shelves: How Kettle & Hive Built a Lemon Honey Tea Brand
They Turned Barley Greens Into Tea — Natural Farmworks' Wild Founder Story
How She Built a Thriving Farmers Market in the Middle of Nowhere | Ashley Sauve, Sauve's Country Market
Exporting to Mexico? What Canadian Food Brands Need to Know | Julie Therrien, Leclerc Group
Sisters Turned a $90 Ice Cream Cart Into a CHFA Show-Stopper | Fromage Protein Pops
From Pasta Bar to Costco's First HMR: Andy Mollica's 35-Year Italian Food Empire
From Health Food to National Grocers: How Canadian Brands Should Think About Distribution | Matthew James
He Closed Toronto's Most Iconic Deli and Moved to Tofino. Here's What Happened Next. | Zane Caplansky
Epicure's Comeback: From $100M MLM Brand to Omnichannel Relaunch | Amelia Warren & Kyle Vucko
Brand Photography, Wix vs WordPress, and Why AI Can't Replace This | ft. Bonnie Joyce
Vancouver Chef Robert Belcham on Restaurant Survival, Pricing Truth & Why Cheap Food Costs Someone Dearly
The Queen of Cookies on 28 Years at Leclerc, Breaking Into Mexico & Why Independents Still Matter
Why Retailers Want a Distributor (Not You) — Inside UNFI Canada with President Stacey Kravitz
Why Your Brand Looks Like Frankenstein (And How to Fix It) ft. Kevin Sotto
The Real Cost of Getting Into Stores — Umami Crave the Fifth's Retail Journey
From Deloitte Partner to Canada's Only Horseradish Producer | Marc Whitmore
Retiring Grocer Reveals the Secret to Local Brand Success: Peter Boyd on Food, Community & What Retailers Really Want
From Tinder to Acquisition to North America's First Clear Vegan Protein — Melissa L'Heureux-Hache of Vegain
We're Not Just a Podcast Anymore | This Commerce Life Update
How Startup TNT Is Getting Regular Canadians to Invest in Early-Stage Companies | Jesse Wiebe
From Canoes to Continents: Canada's Wild Rice Legacy with Matt Ratuski of Floating Leaf Fine Foods
Brewery to Bubbles: How Diana of Callister Soda Turned a Side Project Into a Thriving Craft Beverage Brand
From Istanbul to Grocery Aisles: Arda and the Hummzies Story
Corporate Marketing to Pasta Sauce | Natasha Chawla, Greens & Beans
From Rescue Horses to Retail: Building Topline Feed and Farm Supply in Rural Ontario
From Salt Spring Island to Small-Town Retail: Angela Donnelly on Running Raise the Root Organic Market
From Zero Research to 175 Stores: Building Peak Beverage Co.'s Premium Fruit Soda Brand
Building Canada's Next Generation of Retail Leaders with Dr. Janice Rudkowski
Challenge to Success: How Market 49 Fine Foods is Revolutionizing Frozen Meals in BC
From Quebec Grains to World-Class Spirits: The Dunrobin Distilleries Story
The Business of Boxes: Inside Commercial Packaging with Glenmore Printing
We catch up with Sonia Strobel, Co-Founder & CEO Of Skipper Otto - Canada's Largest Community-Supported Fishery
Mushroom Gummies and Market Strategy: How Mycelyum is rethinking functional wellness
Not Too Sweet: Building a Better-For-You Beverage Brand on Vancouver Island
From Corporate to Coach: Sarah Kinlin's Journey of Grit, Grace & Goals
Shannon & Sarah: Two "Sisters" Building a Smarter Homeopathy Brand with Curated Medicine Kits
Breaking Into Canadian Retail with Simran Kaur
Eye-Friendly Beauty: How an Optometrist is Revolutionizing Cosmetics with Dr. Nieka Sabeti
Knucklehead Interviews
From Crisis to Creation: How Lupus and Scleroderma Led to a Natural Skincare Brand
From Auto Mechanic to Artisan Sausage Maker: D-Original Sausage Haus Story
From Cologne to Canada: What We Learned Walking 10 Football Fields at Anuga
Shauna Fidler, founder of Design Farm and producer of the Basin Food Summit
From Ice Cream Cart to National Brand - The Hazel's Ice Cream Story
Scaling CPG Brands with Roadmap CPG's Michelle Prychidny and Koreann Webster
aspiring surgeon to herbal wellness entrepreneur: Sanaz Bahrami
From Stadium Cleaner to Craft Brewer - The Latina Beer Story
The Kristina Farrell Episode: Fighting for Canada's Food System from the Inside
CHFA Now Toronto 2025 Preview with Aaron Skelton & Lynsey Walker
From Bartending Tips to 24 Locations: The Foxy Box Story
A celebration of success. Re-sharing Caitlin Vanderhaeghe's episode
Mid-Summer Update - Road Trips, Trade Shows, and What's Next
Amy Rempel - From Third-Generation Grocery to Pioneering Kids' Skincare
Trading Cards to Facebook Fame: How One Collector Built a Digital Empire
Burgoo Restaurant's Justin Joyce on 24 Years of Comfort Food & Vancouver's Evolving Food Scene
Food Fraud and Authenticity Testing with Deleo De Leonardis, CEO of Purity IQ
Automating Food Safety: From Paperwork to Profit with Normex CEO Tanguy Etoga
Hot Sauce Without the Heat - Viggy from Tocha Foods
Ashlyn Newlove, Founder of SmartSip
Getting Graded: Inside the Wild World of Card Authentication with TGA's Tyler Stilborn
Kyle Schumacher of Caliente Hot Sauce Company
The Newfoundland Chocolate Company
Sarah Harper and the Fiery World of Stoke The Fire Hot Sauce
From Restaurant Owner to Tea Entrepreneur with Nicole Keats
Owner of Wild Moon Organics Sean Smith looks at brands, owning a bone broth company a little differently.
Nathanael Hollands and Kinvest Impact Foundation are building market innovations in Rural Africa
Dinner with Christos. The founder of Aelo, talks about their new launch, Limoncello and how this one is special
Throwback episode. We walked the Kelowna Farmer's Market with Peter Boyd
Off Script with Phil & Kenny: April Events Preview Join Phil Chang and Kenny Vannucci as they discuss upcoming food industry events and initiatives in Canada this April
Frozen Assets: How TransCold Distribution Is Revolutionizing the Ice Cream and Frozen Food Industry
Brittany from HIVE Naturals and Jeff Doucette from Field Agent Canada to announce their groundbreaking partnership: the world's first hybrid merchandising agency.
Lisa Simonsen packs eggs for a living...just kidding. If you're looking for a designer's view of front of pack labels that are upcoming, this is the episode for you.
We're smiling ear to ear - Nadia Toledo plus talking about tamales is a win/win!
She found me with one of her buttermilk biscuits in my mouth. Dawn Chapman owner and CEO of Toronto's Lazy Daisy's Café and inaugural winner of WXN Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Food Industry Award, presented by Skip
Rochelle Minagawa, Founder of MotherLove Ferments jumps in to talk about the ending of the year, and what comes next for the business.
How to know what you don't know? Brody Hanson, CEO of Work Water talks about jumping into beverage making, starting from scratch with no industry experience
Taking control. We don't have a lot of it, but a chance to take a breath, make changes and continue to push for changes
Things you can do in your day to day to change the conversation around tariffs. Places and resources that you can go to find local brands, Canadian brands.
Jennay Oliver is a fourth-generation farmer, that runs Paynter's Fruit Market in Kelowna.
Mike Nunn comes on to talk automation, AI and how to help companies save some time and free up their folks to do other things.
She's committed to the economic advancement of women. Natalie Frederick Wilson is from Barbados, raised in New York City, and currently living in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
We finish the year with the fabulous Kyla King, CEO and Founder of Rad Jamz.
Claudio Perazzo started Italian Meat Master with one goal in mind: to make a positive impact on Canadians' diet, cleaning and improving iconic comfort foods like sausages and cured meats
President of Stong's Brian Bradley started working at Safeway in high school, initially with no plans to stay long-term
People are always thirsty. Wolseley Kombucha is on track for it's best year ever. Michelle talks about their success and what's next.