MadeGood

Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. is presented as a family company: Nima Fotovat (President) and his wife Ladan Amoughli founded it with his sisters Sahba Fotovat (Manufacturing Director) and Salma Fotovat (Sourcing and Procurement Director), who still lead the company. A federal Corporations Canada search returned no match, so it is likely provincially incorporated in Ontario, which blocks automated registry search; no press, filing, or registry confirms the current cap table. Searches for a 2024-2025 acquisition, investment, or private equity stake turned up nothing, so the mix is set at fully Canadian on the vendor's own account.

• Our Team | Riverside Natural Foods vendor_statement “Nima Fotovat President ... Sahba Fotovat Manufacturing Director ... Salma Fotovat Sourcing and Procurement Director ... As one of the founders, Salma believes that Riverside can be a best-in-class corporate example”
• Story | Riverside Natural Foods vendor_statement “Riverside began when Nima and his wife, Ladan, couldn’t find a tasty, healthy snack that was also safe for school for their son. So they teamed up with Nima’s siblings to launch MadeGood.”

Riverside describes company-owned, purpose-built allergen-free facilities and states its Canadian commercial team brings products to Canadian consumers "made right here in Canada." Riverside's contact page lists only a North America office at 2233 Sheppard Avenue West, North York, Ontario, and an international office in Amsterdam; no separate US manufacturing address turned up in searches. The specific Vaughan plant address could not be independently confirmed, and a secondary US facility to serve MadeGood's growing US business cannot be fully ruled out.

• Quality | Riverside Natural Foods vendor_statement “We’ve built our own facilities that are free from the most common allergens and certified under the Global Food Safety Initiative.”
• Our Team | Riverside Natural Foods vendor_statement “This team partners with our retailers to bring our better for you products to Canadian consumers made right here in Canada.”
• Contact | Riverside Natural Foods vendor_statement “Riverside Natural Foods LTD 2233 Sheppard Avenue West North York, Ontario, Canada M9M 2Z7”

Riverside says it has over 400 employees, based at its North York, Ontario office and manufacturing sites, giving Canada the large majority. A VP People role explicitly covers growth "across the United States and Canada" and Riverside's benefits include a 401(k) alongside an RRSP, indicating a real but smaller US-based commercial and growth staff; no published headcount split exists so the US share is an estimate.

• Story | Riverside Natural Foods vendor_statement “Today at Riverside, we are over four hundred employees.”
• Our Team | Riverside Natural Foods vendor_statement “Gargi leads People Strategy at Riverside, partnering across the organization to build the leadership, culture, and capabilities that support the company’s growth across the United States and Canada.”

Riverside says MadeGood's oats are "grown by Canadian farmers in the Prairies," the largest ingredient by weight in most products. Ingredient lists on the vendor's site show most of the remainder is imported: cane sugar, invert cane syrup, agave syrup, chocolate/cocoa butter, tapioca starch and, in the cookie line, palm fruit oil, and the company's own sustainability page traces cocoa to farms in Peru. No published split exists, so the CA/OTHER proportion is an estimate weighted toward oats as the lead ingredient.

• Brands | Riverside Natural Foods vendor_statement “every ingredient and every step has been carefully chosen to do good, like the oats grown by Canadian farmers in the Prairies, and the facility that is rigorously kept nut-free”
• Chocolate Chip Crunchy Cookies | MadeGood vendor_statement “Ingredients: Gluten free flour blend* (oat flour*, potato starch*, oat hull fibre*, tapioca starch*), Sugars* (cane sugar*, tapioca syrup*), Chocolate chips* (cane sugar*, unsweetened chocolate*, cocoa butter*), Sunflower oil*, Palm fruit oil*”
• About – MadeGoodFoods-USA vendor_statement “From oat fields in North American prairies to cocoa farms in Peru, discover the origins of our organic ingredients.”