please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources canada bread news newspapers books scholar jstor free images october 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message this article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral . please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable independent third party sources . october 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs more links to other articles to help integrate it into the encyclopedia . please help improve this article by adding links that are relevant to the context within the existing text . november 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message canada bread canada bread company limited is a producer and distributor of packaged fresh bread and bakery products in canada . the company operates 19 bakeries and employs approximately 4 550 associates across canada . citation needed purchased by grupo bimbo bimboa mexico on may 23 2014 for cad 1.83 billion canada bread is currently led by alejandro pintado president and operates as an independent business unit of the global baking company . 1 history edit canada bread was founded in june 1911 following the merger of five of canada s leading baking companies bredin bread company model bakery toronto bakery stuarts limited and boyd s bakery . over a span of 30 years the company quickly grew purchasing over 20 bakeries in a dozen cities across the country and establishing new bakery locations in kingston ontario cornwall kirkland lake chatham and sudbury ontario . in 1968 the company acquired dempster s bread limited which had become the nation s best selling brand of bread . citation needed it followed this acquisition in 1969 by changing the name of the company to corporate foods limited but later reverted to canada bread company limited in 1997 . quebec based multi marques with its brand pom was acquired in 2001 . in may 2014 canada bread was purchased from maple leaf foods by mexican based bakery organization grupo bimbo . less than a year later in february 2015 canada bread acquired the bakery division of saputo inc. vachon bakery for cad 120 million . 2 in march 2015 canada bread also acquired two former sobeys bakeries located in winnipeg mb and calgary ab in western canada . 3 in may 2016 canada bread announced it was closing its north bay ontario location after nearly 50 years of operation in the city and to be divested across other canada bread locations . references edit http www.newswire.ca news releases grupo bimbo completes acquisition of canada bread 514348141.html canada bread buys saputo bakery unit for 120m . cbc radio canada . december 18 2014 . retrieved 2015 10 01 . https www.cbfranchise.ca en pages history of canada bread.aspx external links edit official website v t e grupo bimbo mexico barcel bubu lubu usa entenmann s heiner s holsom sara lee thomas central america breddy canada canada bread retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title canada bread & oldid 729695699 categories bakeries of canadagrupo bimbo brandscanadian brandscanadian subsidiaries of foreign companieshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from october 2015all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles lacking reliable references from october 2015all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles with too few wikilinks from november 2015all articles with too few wikilinksarticles covered by wikiproject wikify from november 2015all articles covered by wikiproject wikifyall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 july 2016 at 22 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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