This is a list of corporations based in Winnipeg. This includes

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...

es completely owned and operated out of

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...

, as well as

corporation A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and r ...

s that have significant operations (manufacturing, etc.) in Winnipeg, such as American-owned companies that base their Canadian division in Winnipeg (as in the case of Lifetouch Canada). Ordered here by broad categories, some corporations may fall into more than one section. Also included in this list, at the bottom, are companies that were once based in Winnipeg but have since moved, as well as defunct companies that were based in Winnipeg when they were active.

Agribusiness

Cargill Ltd. Cargill, Incorporated, is a privately held American global food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in term ...

G3 Canada G3 is a Canadian grain company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It consists of two operating companies: * G3 Canada Limited operates a network of grain elevators in western Canada and port terminals in eastern Canada. G3 purchases grains and ...

* Farmers Edge — digital agriculture service *

James Richardson & Sons James Richardson & Sons Limited (JRSL) is a privately-held corporation in Canada that is involved in several industries including agriculture (international grain trade, agribusiness, agri-food), energy, real estate, financial services, invest ...

— agribusiness conglomerate **

Richardson International Richardson International Limited is a privately held Canadian agricultural and food industry company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The company is one of several companies that are owned by James Richardson & Sons Limited. The company is ...

— agriculture and food industry company *

MacDon Industries Ltd. MacDon Industries Ltd. is a Canadian manufacturer of specialty agricultural equipment. The company was established by Joe MacDonald (1924–1991) of Truro, Nova Scotia in 1970, having purchased Killbery Industries Ltd., which had been manufacturing ...

Monsanto Canada Monsanto Canada Inc. was the Canadian division of now-defunct Monsanto Company, headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In addition to seed products, Monsanto sold Herbicide, herbicides including Roundup (herbicide), Roundup. The global headquarters ...

Paterson GlobalFoods Paterson GlobalFoods (PGF) is a family-owned international agri-food business. It was established in 1908 as the N. M. Paterson Company. In 1912, N. M. Paterson built its first elevator at Fort William, with a handling capacity of 75,000 bushels. ...

— agrifoods company * Ridley Inc. (Canadian office) * Parrish & Heimbecker Ltd. * Versatile — brand of

agricultural equipment Agricultural machinery relates to the mechanical structures and devices used in farming or other agriculture. There are many types of such equipment, from hand tools and power tools to tractors and the countless kinds of farm implements that they ...

Business services and human resources

* Studio Farout -

digital marketing Digital marketing is the component of marketing that uses the Internet and online based digital technologies such as desktop computers, mobile phones and other digital media and platforms to promote products and services. Its development duri ...

, design agency services and website and software development company * Ceridian Canada (payroll) — human resources software and services *Norima Consulting —

technology consulting In management, information technology consulting (also called IT consulting, computer consultancy, business and technology services, computing consultancy, technology consulting, and IT advisory) is a field of activity which focuses on advising or ...

and strategic resourcing *People Corporation — group benefits administration, HR consulting, and retirement services *Sherpa.McKim —

service, formed by the 2021 amalgamation of Sherpa Marketing and McKim Communications Group

Communications and entertainment

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN, stylized aptn) is a Canadian specialty channel. Established in 1992 and maintained by governmental funding to broadcast in Canada's northern territories, APTN acquired a national broadcast lice ...

Buffalo Gal Pictures Buffalo Gal Pictures is an independent TV and film production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The company has produced 20 feature films, 10 television dramas, 8 documentaries, and over 50 hours of television series. In 2004, it pre ...

— independent film and television production company *

Canwest Global Communications Canwest Global Communications Corporation, which operated under the corporate name Canwest, was a major Canadian media conglomerate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its head offices at Canwest Place. It held radio, television broadcasting an ...

— defunct

media conglomerate A media conglomerate, media group, or media institution is a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, such as music, television, radio, publishing, motion pictures, theme parks, or the Internet. According to the ...

Eagle Vision The Eagle Vision is a full-sized, front-wheel drive four-door sports sedan produced from 1992 until 1997. It was marketed by Eagle, replacing the AMC/Renault-designed Eagle Premier (from which the Vision was derived). The Eagle Vision was bad ...

— independent film and television production company *

Farpoint Films Farpoint Films is a television and film production company founded in 2000 by John Barnard and Kyle Bornais and based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They have produced more than 500 hours of national and international award winning television ...

— film and television production company *

Frantic Films Frantic Films Corporation is a Canadian branded content and live action production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Frantic Films is known for producing live action reality shows, documentaries and for its work in feature film visual effects. ...

— film, television and commercial services *

Les Productions Rivard Les Productions Rivard is an independent film and television production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1995 by Louis Paquin and Charles Lavack. Together, their goal was to produce television and film productions in F ...

— independent film and television production company *

Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Corporation The Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Corporation (MBLL; french: Société manitobaine des alcools et des loteries) is a crown agency of the Manitoba government responsible for providing legalized gambling ("gaming"), distributing and selling liquor ...

(

crown corporation A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a government entity which is established or nationalised by the ''national government'' or ''provincial government'' by an executive order or an act of legislation in order to earn profit for the governmen ...

) *

Merit Motion Pictures Merit Motion Pictures is an independent documentary film and television production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded by Merit Jensen Carr in 1988. Specializing in factual, multi-platform entertainment, Merit Motion Pict ...

— independent documentary film and television production company *

True North Sports & Entertainment True North Sports and Entertainment Limited (TNSE or TNS&E) is a Canadian company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that owns and operates Canada Life Centre in downtown Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League. The company also ow ...

* Ubisoft Winnipeg — video-games studio

Performance arts

* Manitoba Chamber Orchestra Inc. *

Manitoba Opera Manitoba Opera is an opera company in Winnipeg, Manitoba that was founded in 1969. Its first production was a concert version of Giuseppe Verdi's ''Il Trovatore'' in 1972. Manitoba Opera is one of several western Canadian opera companies that f ...

Manitoba Theatre for Young People Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP) is a theatre for children and young adults in The Forks area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. , MTYP's annual attendance regularly exceeds 100,000. Within the theatre complex are two performance venues: a ...

* Prairie Theatre Exchange Inc. *

Rainbow Stage Rainbow Stage is a not-for-profit musical theatre company and outdoor theatre operator, located in Kildonan Park in north Winnipeg, Manitoba. The covered amphitheatre seats up to 2,600 people and operates from May to September. History As urban p ...

— Canada's largest and longest-running

outdoor theatre An amphitheatre (British English) or amphitheater (American English; both ) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. The term derives from the ancient Greek ('), from ('), meaning "on both sides" or "around" and ...

Royal Winnipeg Ballet The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America. History It was founded in 1939 as the "Winnipeg Ballet Club" by Gweneth Lloyd and Betty Farrally (who also fou ...

— Canada's oldest

ballet company A ballet company is a type of dance troupe which performs classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus managerial and support staff. Most major ballet companies employ dancers on a year-round ba ...

* Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Inc. *School of Contemporary Dancers Inc. * Shakespeare in the Ruins *

Theatre Projects Manitoba Theatre Projects Manitoba (TPM) is a professional theatre company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was founded in 1990 by playwright Harry Rintoul in response to the perceived need for a strong local professional company to provide opportunities fo ...

Winnipeg Jewish Theatre Winnipeg Jewish Theatre is a theatre based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1987 and is the only professional theatre in Canada dedicated to Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious ...

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) is a Canadian orchestra based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Its primary concert venue is the Centennial Concert Hall, and the orchestra also performs throughout the province of Manitoba. The WSO presents an average ...

Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers is Canada's longest continuously running modern dance company. Founded in 1964 by Rachel Browne, it has presented works in the Rachel Browne Theatre in Winnipeg as well as locations across Canada and the United Sta ...

— Canada's longest continuously-running

modern dance Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which included dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th ...

company

Finance and insurance

Assiniboine Credit Union Assiniboine Credit Union (ACU) is a credit union based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ACU was formed in 1943 by 15 employees of the Winnipeg Electric Company who got together to form the credit union. They named the new credit union after the street thei ...

—

credit union A credit union, a type of financial institution similar to a commercial bank, is a member-owned nonprofit organization, nonprofit financial cooperative. Credit unions generally provide services to members similar to retail banks, including depo ...

*BCV Asset Management — investment and

wealth management Wealth management (WM) or wealth management advisory (WMA) is an investment advisory service that provides financial management and wealth advisory services to a wide array of clients ranging from affluent to high-net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high- ...

service *

Canada Life Assurance Company The Canada Life Assurance Company, commonly known as Canada Life, is an insurance and financial services company with its headquarters in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The current company is the result of the 2020 amalgamation of The Great-West Life Assur ...

(Canada Life) * Federated Insurance Company of Canada *

Great-West Lifeco Great-West Lifeco Inc. is a Canadian insurance-centered financial holding company that operates in North America (Canada and United States), Europe and Asia through five wholly owned, regionally focused subsidiaries. Many of the companies it has ...

Investors Group Power Corporation of Canada () is a management and holding company that focuses on financial services in North America, Europe and Asia. Its core holdings are insurance, retirement, wealth management and investment management, including a portfol ...

* Manitoba Blue Cross — not-for-profit health benefits provider * Manitoba Public Insurance Corp. (

) * Red River Mutual Insurance * Telpay —

electronic payment An e-commerce payment system (or an electronic payment system) facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for offline transfer, also known as a subcomponent of electronic data interchange (EDI), e-commerce payment systems have become incre ...

company *Value Partners Investments — develops and manages

mutual fund A mutual fund is a professionally managed investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. The term is typically used in the United States, Canada, and India, while similar structures across the globe include the SICAV i ...

s for

retail investors An investor is a person who allocates financial capital with the expectation of a future return (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest). Through this allocated capital most of the time the investor purchases some species of property. Type ...

The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Co. Wawanesa Insurance—officially The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, also known as Wawanesa Mutual or simply Wawanesa —is a Canadian mutual insurance firm, as well as among Canada's ten largest property and casualty insurers. The company's h ...

*Wellington-Altus Private Wealth — wealth management service

Food, drink, and hospitality

* Aura Hair Group — hair salons *

Canad Inns Canad Inns is a chain of hotels headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Company overview Canad Inns operates a total of 12 hotel properties in the province of Manitoba and one in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Canad Inns also operates re ...

— hotel chain *

Chicken Delight Chicken Delight is a chain of restaurants offering eat-in, take-out, and delivery service with a menu featuring chicken, pizza, and ribs. Based in Winnipeg, the chain mostly has outlets in that city and throughout Manitoba. Although as of 2019, s ...

— restaurant * Fort Garry Brewing Company —

brewery A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of be ...

* Half Pints Brewing Company — brewery *

Old Dutch Foods Old Dutch Foods Inc. is a manufacturer of potato chips and other snack foods in the Midwestern United States, New England and Canada. Their product line includes brands such as Old Dutch Potato Chips, Dutch Crunch, Ripples, Cheese Pleesers and Re ...

(Canadian operations) — snack food manufacturer * Scott-Bathgate Ltd. —

foodstuff Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is inge ...

manufacturer *

SkipTheDishes SkipTheDishes (styled capitalized, sometimes shortened to just SKIP) is a Canadian online food delivery service headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba and a division of Dutch-based Just Eat Takeaway.com. Users can order and pay for food from part ...

— on-demand

food delivery Retail food delivery is a courier service in which a restaurant, store, or independent food-delivery company delivers food to a customer. An order is typically made either through a restaurant or grocer's website or mobile app, or through a food ...

service *

Temple Hotels Temple Hotels Inc. is a Canadian real-estate company that owns and manages hotels across Canada. By 2020, the company owned 28 hotels, nine of which were located in Fort McMurray, Alberta, and three in Saskatchewan, formerly including the Temple ...

— hotel chain *

VJ's Drive Inn VJ's Drive Inn is a burger joint in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, located at 170 Main Street. Overview The restaurant initially opened as Juniors in 1958, the name of the restaurant changed to ''VJ's Drive Inn'' in 1980. The restaurant is o ...

— restaurant Former companies: * A&W — fast-food restaurant founded in Winnipeg; now headquartered in BC. *

Agassiz Brewing The Agassiz Brewing Company was a Canadian brewery, founded by former Fort Garry Brewing Company brewmaster Gary De Pape. The company was established in 1998 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and based there until 2010. It was named for the prehistoric glacia ...

— former

brewing company A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of bee ...

Dickie Dee Dickie Dee is a Canadian brand of ice cream currently owned by Good Humor-Breyers. History Dickie Dee started in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the early 1950s; it was owned by Syd Glow. In 1959, Glow sold it to the Barish family, who then grew it to be ...

— ice-cream brand *Kraves Candy Co. — the original makers of Clodhoppers before selling their assets to Brookside Foods in BC. * Salisbury House — restaurant

Healthcare and pharmaceutical

* Apotex Fermentation —

biotech Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used b ...

* Cangene Corp. — biotech * Manitoba Blue Cross — not-for-profit health benefits provider

Manufacturing

Arctic Glacier Arctic Glacier Inc. is a manufacturer of packaged ice products and ice services in North America. The company was founded in 1996 and has rapidly grown to become the largest producer of ice for the Canadian market and one of the largest for the A ...

— packaged-ice manufacturer * Boeing Canada Technology — Canadian subsidiary of

Boeing The Boeing Company () is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product ...

Bristol Aerospace Bristol Aerospace is a Canadian aerospace firm located in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is an operating division of Magellan Aerospace. Today it is the only remaining and surviving subsidiary of Bristol Aeroplane Company. History Bristol Aerospace b ...

— aerospace manufacturer * Buhler Industries Inc. * Crane Plumbing Corporation — defunct bathroom fixtures manufacturer, wholly-owned by the American

Crane Co. Crane Holdings, Co. is an American industrial products company based in Stamford, Connecticut. Founded by Richard Teller Crane in 1855, it became one of the leading manufacturers of bathroom fixtures in the United States, until 1990, when that ...

* Fort Garry Brewing Company *

General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable energ ...

(manufacturing testing) * Kitchen Craft of Canada Ltd. — cabinetwork manufacturer * McClick Technology Inc. *

Mondetta Clothing Company Mondetta Clothing Inc. is a Canadian leisure and sportswear design and manufacturing company, best known for its world flag-themed apparel. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mondetta has four main divisions: Mondetta, Mondetta Originals, MPG, and Moder ...

— casual and sportswear design and manufacturing company *

Motor Coach Industries Motor Coach Industries (MCI) is a North American multinational bus manufacturer, specializing in production of motorcoaches. Best known for coaches produced for intercity transit and commuter buses, MCI produces coaches for a variety of appli ...

NFI Group NFI Group is a Canadian multinational bus manufacturer, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The company employs 8,000 people across 50 facilities in nine countries. NFI Group owns Alexander Dennis, ARBOC Specialty Vehicles, Motor Coach Industries, New ...

— manufacturer of

transit bus Transit may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Transit'' (1979 film), a 1979 Israeli film * ''Transit'' (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four people in countries in the world * ''Transit'' (2006 film), a 2006 ...

es and

motorcoach A coach (or coach bus/motorcoach) is a type of bus built for longer-distance service, in contrast to transit buses that are typically used within a single metropolitan region. Often used for touring, intercity, and international bus service ...

es **

New Flyer Industries New Flyer is a Canadian multinational bus manufacturer, specializing in the production of transit buses. New Flyer is owned by the NFI Group, a holding company for several bus manufacturers. New Flyer has several manufacturing facilities in Cana ...

—

bus manufacturer Bus manufacturing, a sector of the automotive industry, manufactures buses and coaches. History Bus manufacturing had its earliest origins in carriage building. Other bus manufacturers had their origins in truck manufacturing. Historically, ch ...

*Label Source — custom label manufacturer *Nas Digitech N.A — develops and distributes protective film and

sticky mat A sticky mat, also called a tacky mat or cleanroom mat, is a mat with an adhesive surface that is placed at the entrances or exits to certain workplaces to remove contaminants from the bottoms of footwear and wheeled carts such as hand truc ...

s *

(Canadian operations) — snack food manufacturer * Palliser Furniture Ltd. — furniture manufacturer * Pollard Banknote * Richlu Manufacturing —

workwear Workwear is clothing worn for work, especially work that involves manual labour. Often those employed within trade industries elect to be outfitted in workwear because it is built to provide durability and safety. The workwear clothing industry i ...

manufacturer ** Tough Duck ** Work King Safety * Scott-Bathgate Ltd. —

manufacturer *Speedpro — largest sign and image producing company in Canada *Tiber River Naturals — manufacturer and distributor of home, pet, and personal-care products * Vesta Automation Inc.

Publishing

Arbeiter Ring Publishing Arbeiter Ring Publishing, now known as ARP Books, is a worker-owned and operated independent book publisher and distributor that specializes in progressive, radical and anarchist literature (both fiction and non-fiction). Founded by Todd Scarth a ...

— bookstore, specializing in progressive, radical and anarchist literature *Arts Manitoba Publications Inc — publisher of ''Border Crossings'' magazine * At Bay Press —

tradebook A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardcover (hardback) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, ...

publishing company *

Fernwood Publishing Fernwood Publishing is an independent Canadian publisher that publishes non-fiction books dealing with social justice and issues of social, political and economic importance. Fernwood was founded in 1991 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, publishing its fi ...

— second office (headquartered in Halifax) *

Great Plains Publications Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...

* iMaQPress Inc. — periodicals publishing services * J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing *

McNally Robinson McNally Robinson Booksellers is a family-operated chain of Canadian independent bookstores founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1981. It is managed by new owners Chris Hall and Lori Baker, formerly managed by Holly and Paul McNally. As of 2019 it h ...

— book retailer * Turnstone Press Ltd. — literary publisher *

University of Manitoba Press The University of Manitoba Press (UMP) is an academic publishing house based at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Founded in 1967, the UMP is the first university press in western Canada. Publishing 12 to 14 books a year, UMP is regarded as ...

Former companies: *

Aqua Books Aqua Books was a Canadian independent bookstore opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba by Kelly Hughes in 1999. It was acknowledged for helping revitalize downtown Winnipeg and creating an eclectic mix of programs and events for the Winnipeg arts and cu ...

— former

independent bookstore An independent bookstore is a retail bookstore which is independently owned. Usually, independent stores consist of only a single actual store (although there are some multi-store independents). They may be structured as sole proprietorships, cl ...

Bedside Press Bedside Press was a comics publishing company founded in 2014 by Hope Nicholson and based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 2014, Bedside Press published a diverse range of comic and prose works including anthology collections like ''The ...

Harlequin Enterprises Harlequin Enterprises ULC (known simply as Harlequin) is a romance and women's fiction publisher founded in Winnipeg, Canada in 1949. From the 1960s, it grew into the largest publisher of romance fiction in the world. Based in Toronto, Canada si ...

— book publisher founded in Winnipeg; now headquartered in Toronto *

Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse The Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse was a political bookstore and vegan cafe located in The Old Market Autonomous Zone at 91 Albert Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The name comes from the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation and other organi ...

— former political bookstore and

vegan Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal product—particularly in diet—and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. An individual who follows the diet or philosophy is known as a vegan. Di ...

cafe

Retail and apparel

Arctic Co-operatives Limited Arctic Co-operatives Limited is a cooperative federation owned and controlled by 32 community-based cooperative business enterprises located in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon and northern Manitoba, Canada. Arctic Co-ops coordinates resource ...

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cooperative federation A co-operative federation or secondary co-operative is a co-operative in which all members are, in turn, co-operatives. Historically, co-operative federations have predominantly come in the form of co-operative wholesale societies and co-operative ...

Cabela's Cabela's Inc. is an American retailer that specializes in hunting, fishing, boating, camping, shooting and other outdoor recreation merchandise. The chain is based in Sidney, Nebraska. Cabela's was founded by Richard N. Cabela in 1961. Cabela' ...

(Canadian headquarters) —

outdoor recreation Outdoor recreation or outdoor activity refers to recreation done outside, most commonly in natural settings. The activities that encompass outdoor recreation vary depending on the physical environment they are being carried out in. These activitie ...

al equipment retail chain * Devicelist —

wholesaler Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. In g ...

and retailer * Domo — gasoline retailer *

K-Tel K-tel International Ltd is a Canadian company which formerly specialized in selling consumer products through infomercials and live demonstration. Its products include compilation music albums, including ''The Super Hits'' series, ''The Dynami ...

— book retailer *

The North West Company The North West Company is a multinational Canadian grocery and retail company which operates stores in Canada's western provinces and northern territories, as well as the US states of Alaska, Hawaii, and several other countries and US territ ...

— multinational grocery and retail company; owner of

Northern Stores The North West Company is a multinational Canadian grocery and retail company which operates stores in Canada's western provinces and northern territories, as well as the US states of Alaska, Hawaii, and several other countries and US territ ...

, NorthMart,

Giant Tiger Giant Tiger Stores Limited is a Canadian discount store chain which operates over 260 stores across Canada. The company's stores operate under the Giant Tiger banner in Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island ...

(in Western Canada), Alaska Commercial Co., and

Cost-U-Less The North West Company is a multinational Canadian grocery and retail company which operates stores in Canada's western provinces and northern territories, as well as the US states of Alaska, Hawaii, and several other countries and US terri ...

, none of which are based in Winnipeg. *

Princess Auto Princess Auto is a Canadian retail chain specializing in farm, industrial, garage, hydraulics and surplus items. Headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Princess Auto owns and operates 55 stores in ten provinces as of January 2024, along with thr ...

Red River Co-op Red River Cooperative Limited, branded as Red River Co-op, is a retail cooperative operating in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. As of 2022 it operates nine Red River Co-op supermarkets, including five in Winnipeg and one each in Gimli, Stonewall, L ...

—

retail cooperative A consumers' co-operative is an enterprise owned by consumers and managed democratically and that aims at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of its members. Such co-operatives operate within the market system, independently of the state, as a fo ...

Stedmans V&S Stedmans V&S (or V&S for short) is a Canadian variety discount department store chain. Stedmans operates its stores mainly in smaller towns and cities in Canada. The chain's stores today are comparable in size and merchandise offered to similar ...

(V&S) —

variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont * ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...

discount department store A discount store or discounter offers a retail format in which products are sold at prices that are in principle lower than an actual or supposed "full retail price". Discounters rely on bulk purchasing and efficient Logistics, distribution to kee ...

chain, now perminantly closed. Former companies: *

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business div ...

— retailing; moved headquarters from Winnipeg *

Metropolitan Stores Metropolitan Stores of Canada Ltd. (often referred to as The Met or Metropolitan) was a Canadian variety department store chain based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The company was incorporated in 1908 as F.H. Brewster & Company, renamed Metropolitan S ...

— former department store *

— former political bookstore and

cafe * SAAN — discount department store chain; moved headquarters from Winnipeg and is now defunct

Apparel and jewelry

Ben Moss Jewellers Ben Moss Jewellers is a Canadian jewellery store company. History Ben Moss Jewellers was founded by Ben Moss in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1910. Upon Moss' passing in 1962, his son-in-law Sidney Trepel took over the single store. From 1962 till 1 ...

* Manitobah Mukluks —

mukluk Mukluks or kamik ( iu, ᑲᒥᒃ ) (singular: , plural: ) are a soft boot, traditionally made of reindeer (caribou) skin or sealskin, and worn by Arctic aboriginal people, including the Inuit, Iñupiat, and Yup'ik. Mukluks may be worn over a ...

and

moccasin A moccasin is a shoe, made of deerskin or other soft leather, consisting of a sole (made with leather that has not been "worked") and sides made of one piece of leather, stitched together at the top, and sometimes with a vamp (additional panel o ...

manufacturer and distributor * Mondetta Clothing Inc. — casual & sportswear design and manufacturing company **Modern Ambition —

and

formalwear Formal wear or full dress is the Western dress code category applicable for the most formal occasions, such as weddings, christenings, confirmations, funerals, Easter and Christmas traditions, in addition to certain state dinners, audiences, b ...

**Mondetta Originals — clothing line that renews Mondetta's original collections from the company's early days, particularly its "world flag" collection. **Mondetta Performance Gear (MPG) —

activewear Sportswear or activewear is clothing, including footwear, worn for sport or physical exercise. Sport-specific clothing is worn for most sports and physical exercise, for practical, comfort or safety reasons. Typical sport-specific garments ...

Nygård International Nygård International was a Canadian clothing brand, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was founded and named after Peter Nygård. It was the largest producer of women's apparel in Canada. The company produced clothing under brand names such as ...

— apparel manufacturer and retailer *Richlu Manufacturing —

** Tough Duck ** Work King Safety *

Silver Jeans Co. Silver Jeans Co. is a designer denim company founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into th ...

— designer

denim Denim is a sturdy cotton warp-faced textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads. This twill weaving produces a diagonal ribbing that distinguishes it from cotton duck. While a denim predecessor known as dungaree has been pr ...

company

Technology

* Bold Commerce —

e-commerce E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain manageme ...

technology * Ceridian Canada (payroll) — human resources software and services *Exchange Technology Services *FPOM — website for business listings, buy/sell classifieds, and local social-networking *IC Group Inc * On4 Networks Corp. * Revvo Inc. — business review automation platform *

— on-demand

service *Tactile Robotics * Avenit IT Inc. — IT Solutions

Managed Service Provider Managed services is the practice of outsourcing the responsibility for maintaining, and anticipating need for, a range of processes and functions, ostensibly for the purpose of improved operations and reduced budgetary expenditures through the re ...

service

Transportation

* Bison Transport *

CentrePort Canada CentrePort Canada is a tri-modal dry port and Foreign Trade Zone located partly in northwest Winnipeg, Manitoba (CentrePort South) and partly in the Rural Municipality of Rosser (CentrePort North), and situated adjacent to the Winnipeg James Armst ...

— trimodal

inland port An inland port is a port on an inland waterway, such as a river, lake, or canal, which may or may not be connected to the sea. The term "inland port" is also used to refer to a dry port. Examples The United States Army Corps of Engineers publ ...

Kivalliq Air Keewatin Air (IATA: FK) is an airline that operates from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The airline was started by Frank Robert May (who had been a pilot for Lamb Air) and his wife Judy Saxby in 1971, in the Keewatin Region, then part of the Northwe ...

— airline *

Perimeter Aviation Perimeter Aviation is an airline with its head office on the property of Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Perimeter Aviation operates more than 30 aircraft on scheduled, charter, and medevac ...

— airline * Reimer Express *

— manufacturer of

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Other businesses/services

*Bison Fire Protection — sells, installs, and maintains

fire protection Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of potentially destructive fires. It involves the study of the behaviour, compartmentalisation, suppression and investigation of fire and its related emergencies, as we ...

equipment * Boyd Autobody and Glass — automotive repair * Heartland International English School — English-language training and testing institution for

international student International students, or foreign students, are students who undertake all or part of their tertiary education in a country other than their own and move to that country for the purpose of studying. In 2019, there were over 6 million internati ...

s in Winnipeg and

Mississauga Mississauga ( ), historically known as Toronto Township, is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, adjoining the western border of Toronto. With a popul ...

*J-CON Civil —

civil construction Construction is a general term meaning the art and science to form objects, systems, or organizations,"Construction" def. 1.a. 1.b. and 1.c. ''Oxford English Dictionary'' Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) Oxford University Press 2009 and com ...

service, particularly for sewer and water projects * Lifetouch Canada — school photography service *

Manitoba Hydro The Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board, operating as Manitoba Hydro, is the electric power and natural gas utility in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1961, it is a provincial Crown Corporation, governed by the Manitoba Hydro-Electric Boa ...

(government-owned) —

electric power Electric power is the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt, one joule per second. Standard prefixes apply to watts as with other SI units: thousands, millions and billions o ...

and

natural gas Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...

utility company **

Centra Gas Centra Gas Manitoba Inc., a subsidiary of Manitoba Hydro, is the primary distributor of natural gas in Manitoba, serving the Winnipeg and surrounding area, including rural communities. The company had a gas distribution monopoly in Manitoba unti ...

* Mobile Tech Lab — technology repair store * Solar EPC Canada — renewable/solar energy *

Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP (TDS) is a Canadian, Manitoba-based law firm with its head office in Winnipeg. The firm has two full-time regional office in Brandon and Portage la Prairie and eight part-time satellite offices in Boissevain, Gladst ...

— legal firm *TREK Geotechnical —

engineering consulting Engineering consulting is the practice of performing engineering as a Consulting Engineer. It assists individuals, public and private companies with process management, idea organization, product design, fabrication, MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Op ...

service for

geotechnical Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. It uses the principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics for the solution of its respective engineering problems. It als ...

and

water resources Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water. 97% of the water on the Earth is salt water and only three percent is fresh water; slight ...

applications.

Companies founded or formerly based in Winnipeg

* A&W — fast-food restaurant founded in Winnipeg; now headquartered in BC. *

— former

Agricore United Agricore United was a farmer-directed agribusiness in Canada. It supplied crop nutrition and crop protection products, and offered grain handling and marketing services. It was created on November 1, 2001 by the merger of Agricore and United Grai ...

— agribusiness *

— former

Canwest Canwest Global Communications Corporation, which operated under the corporate name Canwest, was a major Canadian media conglomerate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its head offices at Canwest Place. It held radio, television broadcasting an ...

— former

* Crane Plumbing Corporation — defunct bathroom fixtures manufacturer, wholly-owned by the American

— ice-cream brand *

— book publisher, founded in Winnipeg; now headquartered in Toronto * Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. — mining company *

— retailing *

Ipsos-Reid Ipsos Reid was the name of a Canada-based research company, still existing under the name Ipsos as the Canadian arm of the global Ipsos Group. Founded in Winnipeg in 1979 as the Angus Reid Group, the company expanded across the country and was pur ...

— research company founded in Winnipeg; now operating as ''Ipsos'' in Canada. *Kraves Candy Co. — the original makers of Clodhoppers before selling their assets to Brookside Foods in BC. * Liquid Image Corporation — company that manufactured

head-mounted display A head-mounted display (HMD) is a display device, worn on the head or as part of a helmet (see Helmet-mounted display for aviation applications), that has a small display optic in front of one (monocular HMD) or each eye ( binocular HMD). An H ...

s. *

Louis Dreyfus Group Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. (LDC), also called the Louis-Dreyfus Group, is a French merchant firm that is involved in agriculture, food processing, international shipping, and finance. The company owns and manages hedge funds, ocean vessels, dev ...

— agribusiness *

Manitoba Liquor Control Commission The Manitoba Liquor Control Commission (MLCC) was a Crown corporation mandated with regulating, distributing, and selling beverage alcohol in the Canadian province of Manitoba. In 2014, the Manitoba government merged MLCC with the Manitoba Lo ...

(

) — former liquor regulator of Manitoba * Manitoba Lotteries Corp. (

) — former lotteries regulator of Manitoba *

— former department store *

Moffat Communications Moffat Communications was a Canadian cable and broadcasting company. Privately owned by the Moffat family, the company was based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It first went public on the stock market in 1972. In an interview with the Free Press reporter ...

— former cable and broadcasting company *

— former political bookstore and

cafe *

— U.S. bus manufacturing company founded in Winnipeg. (Now owned by

New Flyer New Flyer is a Canadian multinational Bus manufacturing, bus manufacturer, specializing in the production of transit buses. New Flyer is owned by the NFI Group, a holding company for several bus manufacturers. New Flyer has several manufacturing ...

.) *

NewLeaf NewLeaf Travel Company Inc., branded as NewLeaf, was a Canadian virtual airline, or ticket reseller, based at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport in Manitoba. It sold tickets for flights operated by Flair Airlines. In Ju ...

— former virtual airline and ticket reseller *

Canada Safeway Safeway (also referred to as Canada Safeway) is a Canadian supermarket chain of 135 full service supermarket stores mostly operating in the western provinces in Canada. It was established in 1929 as a subsidiary of the American Safeway Inc., bef ...

— grocer * SAAN — discount department store chain; moved headquarters from Winnipeg and is now defunct * Salisbury House — restaurant *

United Grain Growers The United Grain Growers, or UGG, was a Canadian grain farmers' cooperative for grain storage and distribution that operated between 1917 and 2001. History In 1917, the Grain Growers' Grain Company (GGGC) merged with the Alberta Farmers' Co- ...

— former agribusiness; became

Videon Cablesystems Videon Cablesystems (also Videon Cable-TV or Metro Videon Community Antenna Television Inc.) was a Canadian cable television service in Manitoba, Alberta, and for a short period, northwest Ontario. The company was owned by Moffat Communicatio ...

— former broadcaster *

W Network W Network (often shortened to W) is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel primarily broadcasts general entertainment programming oriented towards a female audience. W Network was established in ...

— broadcaster * Wardrop Engineering — former

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

and

firm *

Western Canada Lottery Corporation The Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) is a Canadian non-profit organization founded in 1974 that operates lottery and gaming-related activities for its members, the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Yukon, the Northwest T ...

(

) *

Westfair Foods Loblaw Companies Limited is a Canadian retailer encompassing corporate and franchise supermarkets operating under 22 regional and market-segment banners (including Loblaws), as well as pharmacies, banking and apparel. Loblaw operates a private ...

— grocer *

Winnipeg Hydro Winnipeg Hydro is a former provider of electrical power for the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Winnipeg Hydro was established in 1906 as City Hydro. It was purchased by Manitoba Hydro in 2002. History Private electrical generators in ...

— former hydro-generation and distribution company.

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