EarthFresh

The vendor's own site footer names the legal entity as 'EarthFresh Foods Inc.' Corporations Canada's federal registry was re-queried for 'EarthFresh', 'EarthFresh Foods', 'EarthFresh Farms', 'Mackay and Hughes' and 'Mackay Hughes'; all five searches returned zero results, confirming the company is not federally incorporated (it is provincially incorporated in Ontario, whose business registry remains blocked to automation by a Radware captcha, so no significant-control register was reachable). A third party was found describing who controls the company: NewPoint Capital Partners, a Toronto-based mid-market M&A advisory firm, states on its own transactions page that it was retained by 'a group of industry executives' seeking to acquire a food business, arranged the purchase of Gemini Foods (an Ontario potato, carrot and onion distributor) from its prior owner-managers, and structured the deal so its clients obtained a controlling stake in the company while an unnamed institutional investor supplied the bulk of the capital without control; the business was renamed EarthFresh Foods at closing. This is a specific third-party statement of who controls the company, sourced from a page fetched today, so confidence moves from inferred to reported. No source names the individual executives, the institutional investor, or gives an exact deal date, so the split cannot be pinned to named parties; both NewPoint and the buy-side executives it describes are Canadian, the acquired business (Gemini Foods) was Ontario-based, and no source indicates a foreign controlling party, so the mix is kept at 100% CA. The company's own memoriam page separately names Tom Hughes Sr. as founder of the Burlington predecessor Mackay and Hughes (1963); it is unclear from public sources whether that lineage and the Gemini Foods/NewPoint transaction describe the same corporate entity at different points in its history, but neither points to a non-Canadian owner.

• Welcome to EarthFresh vendor_statement “© 2026 EarthFresh Foods Inc. All rights reserved.”
• TomHughesSr - EarthFresh vendor_statement “It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Tom Hughes Sr., the founder of EarthFresh (formerly known as Mackay and Hughes).”
• Earthfresh Foods - Newpoint Capital Partners press “NewPoint was able to put in place a capital structure which enabled its clients to obtain a controlling-stake in the company while benefiting from the medium to long term patience of an institutional investor which provided the bulk of the capital.”

The flagship packing plant is Burlington, Ontario (110,000 sq ft, 600,000 lbs/day) plus a PEI packing partnership (Eastpoint Potato) sourcing island growers; these long-standing Canadian sites are weighted heaviest since they are the historic Canadian-retail-facing operations. The September 2024 purchase of Mountain King Potatoes added US packing in Houston, TX and Monte Vista, CO; the vendor's own acquisition release also named a Georgia packing facility, but the current locations page (fetched today) lists only Texas and Colorado for the US, not Georgia, so that detail could not be reconciled. Idaho (SunRain) is a seed-breeding operation, not a finished-product packing site, so it is excluded from this factor.

• Locations - EarthFresh vendor_statement “Located in Burlington, Ontario, our 110,000 sq. ft. packing facility has the ability to pack 600,000 lbs/day.”
• We Are Pleased to Announce the Purchase of Mountain King Potatoes by EarthFresh Farms. - EarthFresh vendor_statement “With the completion of this transaction, EarthFresh now has nine state-of-the-art packing facilities in Georgia, Texas, Colorado, Ontario and Prince Edward Island”

HQ and main office are in Burlington, Ontario, and the Millgrove, ON farm and Burlington plant remain the core Canadian operation. The April 2025 leadership announcement, made after the Mountain King acquisition, shows several new VP roles based in the US (HR in Houston, plus US sales and US operations leads) alongside Canada-based operations leadership, so the workforce is judged majority-Canadian but with a substantial and growing US share.

• Contact - EarthFresh vendor_statement “EarthFresh Burlington 1095 Clay Avenue Burlington, ON L7L 0A 1”
• EarthFresh Announces Strategic Promotions Post-Acquisition - EarthFresh vendor_statement “Jason Graves has joined EarthFresh as Vice President of Human Resources, based in Houston, TX, effective April 14, 2025.”

The vendor's about page names membership in Ontario (OPMA, Foodland Ontario) and Quebec (Les producteurs de pommes de terre du Québec) potato grower associations, and the locations page describes the PEI partnership as sourcing from a network of island growers, corroborating Ontario, Quebec and PEI supply. Alberta and Manitoba grower ties and an exact Canadian/US supply split could not be confirmed on the vendor's site; some US sourcing in the off-season is plausible given the newly acquired Idaho, Texas and Colorado growing and breeding operations, so a 75/25 CA/US split is this agent's estimate.

• About Us - EarthFresh vendor_statement “We partner with our industry to help spread the importance of fresh produce consumption”
• Locations - EarthFresh vendor_statement “Our partnership in Eastpoint Potato allows us to procure world famous Prince Edward Island potatoes from our network of local island growers.”