Ethical Bean Coffee

Trade press reported that the Canadian subsidiary of Kraft Heinz Company acquired Ethical Bean in September 2018, quoting founder Lloyd Bernhardt's own announcement of the completed sale; Ethical Bean's current site makes no ownership statement of its own. Kraft Heinz is a US public company, Nasdaq-listed as KHC, headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh, with Berkshire Hathaway as its largest shareholder at 27.5 percent, so profit and control both sit with a US parent. No later divestiture of Ethical Bean turned up in a further trade-press search, so this is taken as the current structure; a BC or federal registry filing naming the parent directly was not found. The Kraft Heinz Company's Form 10-K Exhibit 21.1, filed with the SEC on 2026-02-12, lists Ethical Bean LLC among its subsidiaries, which confirms the parent relationship from the parent's own regulatory filing rather than from either company's marketing.

• Kraft Heinz Acquires Vancouver Roasting Company Ethical Bean press “The Canadian subsidiary of global food giant Kraft Heinz Company has acquired longtime Vancouver roasting company Ethical Bean Coffee.”
• Kraft Heinz - Wikipedia other “Berkshire Hathaway (27.5%; as of January 16, 2026)”
• Kraft Heinz Form 10-K, Exhibit 21.1 (filed 2026-02-12): List of Subsidiaries filing “Ethical Bean LLC — Delaware”

Ethical Bean's own site brands every product as '100% fairtrade + organic coffee roasted in canada,' and trade press covering the Kraft Heinz acquisition describes a LEED Gold-certified Vancouver roastery running a Loring S70 Peregrine roaster. No co-packing or outside roasting facility is mentioned anywhere, so manufacturing is placed entirely in Canada.

• Ethical Bean Coffee | 100% Fair Trade & Organic vendor_statement “100% fairtrade + organic coffee roasted in canada”
• Kraft Heinz Acquires Vancouver Roasting Company Ethical Bean press “a Loring S70 Peregrine roaster at its LEED Gold-certified Vancouver roastery”

The only operations Ethical Bean discloses are its Vancouver roastery and a single Vancouver cafe, and its careers page routes applicants to a direct company email rather than a Kraft Heinz careers portal, suggesting the Vancouver site still does its own hiring. No headcount or address is published. The split weights Canada heavily for the roasting, cafe, and local staff that a single-site food business this size would need, with a smaller share to the US reflecting that ultimate management and corporate functions sit with Kraft Heinz.

• Join the Team - Ethical Bean Coffee Canada vendor_statement “interested in joining the team behind the bean?”
• Kraft Heinz Acquires Vancouver Roasting Company Ethical Bean press “a LEED Gold-certified Vancouver roastery”

Green coffee cannot be grown in Canada, so every bean Ethical Bean roasts is imported. The vendor's own site says its Director of Coffee 'sources seasonally with the harvest calendar, meaning the origin of our roasts will change depending on the time of year,' and its founding story is tied to farmer visits in Guatemala; both point to sourcing entirely from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, all of which fall in OTHER.

• Our Beans | Ethical Bean Coffee - Ethical Bean Coffee Canada vendor_statement “our Director of Coffee sources seasonally with the harvest calendar, meaning the origin of our roasts will change depending on the time of year”
• Our Ethics | Ethical Bean Coffee - Ethical Bean Coffee Canada vendor_statement “Ethical Bean came to fruition in 2003; born of an opportunity glimpsed from time spent in Guatemala”