Maple Leaf Foods

The 2026 management information circular reports McCain Capital Inc., controlled by Michael H. McCain, exercising control or direction over 39.25% of MLF common shares, with no other holder over 10%; the remainder is diffuse public float on the TSX. Both the controlling shareholder and the listing venue are Canadian. The circular also confirms the 2025 spin-off of the pork business into the separately traded Canada Packers Inc. (TSX: CPKR), in which Maple Leaf retained a 16% stake; that spin-off left the branded consumer business, which this card covers, unchanged in ownership.

• 2025 Maple Leaf Foods Inc. Management Information Circular filing “McCain Capital Inc. (“MCI”) exercises control or direction over 48,948,794 (approximately 39.25%) of the outstanding MLF Common Shares.”
• History | Maple Leaf Foods vendor_statement “McCain Capital and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board acquired a controlling interest in this new company.”

The company's locations page lists roughly 15 Canadian manufacturing plants and hatcheries across Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec producing the Maple Leaf, Schneiders, Greenfield and Mina lines, against three US plants (Seattle WA, Turners Falls MA, Indianapolis IN) that make the smaller Lightlife and Field Roast plant-based lines. Weighted toward Canada given the meat brands carry most of the Canadian shelf presence.

• View our Maple Leaf Foods locations | Maple Leaf Foods vendor_statement “Approximately 10,000 Maple Leaf Foods Team Members work in our 19 Canadian and U.S. plants, and offices.”

About 10,000 team members across 19 Canadian and US plants and offices per the company's own locations page, with head office in Mississauga. No country-level headcount split is published, so the split is estimated to mirror the manufacturing footprint, which is concentrated at Canadian plants.

• View our Maple Leaf Foods locations | Maple Leaf Foods vendor_statement “Approximately 10,000 Maple Leaf Foods Team Members work in our 19 Canadian and U.S. plants, and offices.”

Core meat inputs (pork, chicken) run through Canadian hatcheries and processing plants attached to each Canadian facility, consistent with a domestic livestock and poultry supply chain. The Lightlife and Field Roast plant-based lines are made in US plants and likely draw on US-grown soy and wheat protein, and some spices and functional ingredients (listed on the ingredients page) are typically imported. No published sourcing percentage was found.

• Ingredients We Avoid - Maple Leaf vendor_statement “INGREDIENTS: pork, water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphate, dextrose, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, smoke.”