The Little Potato Company
Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Alberta
Creamer potatoes, founded in 1996 by Jacob van der Schaaf and his daughter Angela Santiago near Edmonton, Alberta. Family-owned, with packing plants in Edmonton and DeForest, Wisconsin.
Edmonton, AB CA · www.littlepotatoes.com
The Little Potato Company is a family-owned creamer potato grower and packer founded in 1996 by Jacob van der Schaaf and his daughter Angela Santiago near Edmonton, Alberta. It packs at its own plants in Edmonton and DeForest, Wisconsin, and its products were confirmed at Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, Save-On-Foods, Co-op, Giant Tiger, Costco and Walmart banners through the vendor's own retailer locator and store pages.
Factors
Ownership
100.0 reportedCA 100%
The company was founded in 1996 by Jacob van der Schaaf and his daughter Angela Santiago, who is CEO and co-founder, and its own media page describes it as a family-owned business with no outside investor or parent named anywhere on the site. Corporations Canada's federal registry search returns no match for the company, indicating provincial incorporation, and Alberta's corporate registry has no free public search, so this rests on the vendor's own statements rather than a filing.
- Media Room | The Little Potato Company vendor_statement “Founded in 1996, The Little Potato Company is a family-owned business on a mission to feed the world better, one little potato at a time.”
- Our Journey | The Little Potato Company vendor_statement “Jacob teams up with his daughter Angela and they start growing potatoes”
- A Note from Angela Santiago: 30 Years of Growing Together vendor_statement “Angela Santiago, CEO and Co-Founder of The Little Potato Company”
- Search for a Federal Corporation - Corporations Canada registry “Searched for: Corporate name: little potato. 2 results were found, 2 returned.”
Manufacturing
61.0 inferredCA 70% · US 30%
Potatoes are packed at the company's own plants in Edmonton, Alberta, its headquarters and the site of a newer, larger expansion, and in DeForest, Wisconsin, both confirmed by named plant staff on the careers page. The site discloses no volume or revenue split between the two plants, so the mix is an estimate weighted toward the Edmonton plant for what reaches Canadian shelves.
- Careers | The Little Potato Company vendor_statement “Assistant Plant Manager - Edmonton Blain MacDonald ... oversees production, shipping, sanitization, the washline, and receiving”
- Careers | The Little Potato Company vendor_statement “Assistant Plant Manager - Deforest Derek Stoddard Derek is our Assistant Plant Manager in Deforest, Wisconsin.”
- Sustainable Potatoes | The Little Potato Company vendor_statement “Our new plant and office in Edmonton is being built with 200,000 square feet of solar panels, generating over a gigawatt of power”
People
67.5 inferredCA 75% · US 25%
The company is headquartered at 915 36 Ave, Nisku, Alberta, in the Edmonton area, with named staff spanning production, shipping and quality assurance roles at both the Edmonton and DeForest, Wisconsin plants. No employee count by location is published, so the split is an estimate weighted toward the larger, headquarters-adjacent Edmonton operation.
- Sustainable Potatoes | The Little Potato Company vendor_statement “"address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "addressLocality": "Nisku", "addressRegion": "AB", "streetAddress": "915 36 Ave", "postalCode": "T9E 1C6" }”
- Careers | The Little Potato Company vendor_statement “Quality Assurance Supervisor - Edmonton Apole Tovillo-Lee”
Inputs
67.5 inferredCA 75% · US 25%
The company's own farmer-profile page names highlighted growing partners only in Alberta and Wisconsin, though Canadian shelf supply is also understood to draw on growers in Manitoba, Ontario and PEI plus some US supply. None of this provincial or cross-border split is quantified on the site, so the mix is inferred and weighted toward Canadian-grown potatoes reaching Canadian shelves.
- Our Farmers | The Little Potato Company vendor_statement “Alberta - G.V. Ridges Ltd. Alex Geerligs and Jeroen Van Der Stoel”
- Our Farmers | The Little Potato Company vendor_statement “Wisconsin - Bryan Bula Farms Bryan Bula started farming”
Where to buy
- Canadian retailer · Loblaws 69.2
- Canadian retailer · Voilà (Sobeys) 69.2
- Canadian retailer · Metro 69.2
- Canadian retailer · Save-On-Foods 69.2
- Canadian retailer · Co-op 69.2
- Canadian retailer · Giant Tiger 69.2
- US retailer · Costco 46.1
- US retailer · Walmart 46.1
Grocers
- The Little Potato Company retailer locator data — Canada, page 4 of 7 vendor_statement “{"id":22735,"title":"LOBLAWS","slug":"loblaws"”
- The Little Potato Company retailer locator data — Canada, page 6 of 7 vendor_statement “{"id":22713,"title":"SOBEYS","slug":"sobeys"”
- The Little Potato Company retailer locator data — Canada, page 5 of 7 vendor_statement “{"id":22722,"title":"METRO","slug":"metro"”
- The Little Potato Company retailer locator data — Canada, page 6 of 7 vendor_statement “{"id":22712,"title":"SAVE ON FOODS","slug":"save-on-foods"”
- The Little Potato Company retailer locator data — Canada, page 1 of 7 vendor_statement “{"id":22711,"title":"COOP","slug":"coop"”
- The Little Potato Company retailer locator data — Canada, page 3 of 7 vendor_statement “{"id":23486,"title":"Giant Tiger","slug":"giant-tiger"”
- The Little Potato Company retailer locator data — Canada, page 2 of 7 vendor_statement “{"id":23115,"title":"Costco","slug":"costco"”
- Microwave Ready Little Potatoes | The Little Potato Company vendor_statement “Find Little Potatoes At Your Local Walmart”