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Nature's Touch

Canadian-owned · mostly made in Canada · based in Quebec

Nature's Touch Frozen Foods sells Nature's Touch and Europe's Best branded frozen fruit and vegetables, packed in Montreal and Abbotsford, BC, plus US and Mexican plants added in a 2025 acquisition.

Montreal, QC CA · naturestouch.com

Found at Costco
31.9

Nature's Touch Frozen Foods is a privately held Montreal frozen fruit and vegetable supplier selling under the Nature's Touch and Europe's Best brands, expanded in November 2025 by acquiring SunOpta's Sunrise Growers frozen fruit assets. The company is 100% family-owned by the Tentomas family per the founder/CEO's own account, with no private equity investor and no individuals-with-significant-control filing on record federally; the current Quebec provincial registration could not be checked. Fruit is sourced globally, with Chile confirmed as a long-standing berry supplier.

Factors

Ownership

35.0 inferred

CA 50% · US 50%

A fresh Corporations Canada search confirms both federal entities (Nature's Touch Frozen Foods Inc. and Nature's Touch Frozen Foods (West) Inc.) show 'No information has been filed' under Individuals with Significant Control, so the one register that would establish ownership is empty; both entities remain discontinued into provincial jurisdiction (Quebec 2022-02-24, BC 2022-02-04) and the Quebec registry could not be checked (blocks automation). The vendor's own about, who-we-are, and privacy-policy pages name no parent company or investor beyond 'Nature's Touch Frozen Foods Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates.' A September 3, 2026 Food Chain Magazine interview quotes founder/CEO John Tentomas directly: 'We're a 100-percent family-owned company, which is rare for companies of our size, and we intend to keep it that way,' ruling out private equity or institutional ownership. That statement undercuts the prior 50/50 split, which had treated co-director Theo Prokos's Quebec residency as a proxy for a share of ownership: no source identifies Prokos, or anyone else, as a family owner, and the only individual named as an owner anywhere (a LinkedIn title reading 'Owner, Nature's Touch Frozen Foods Inc.') is Tentomas, whose address on the most recent federal filing is Montverde, Florida. The mix is therefore weighted heavily to the US around the identified founder, with a residual token to Canada for the company's Montreal origins and the unconfirmed possibility of Canada-based family co-owners; the precise family cap table remains unpublished. The country split is an estimate, not a documented fact: no source states any owner's share, and the US weighting rests only on the founder's address on a federal filing, so the confidence is inferred and this ownership claim is not published. The split is held at an even division between the two identified principals, Tentomas and Prokos, because no source states any share: weighting it heavily to the United States would let an address on a filing drive the score as hard as a documented ownership fact.

Manufacturing

32.0 reported

CA 40% · other 20% · US 40%

The vendor's own facilities page lists five packing plants: Montreal and Abbotsford, BC in Canada, Front Royal, Virginia and Edwardsville, Kansas in the US, and Jacona, Mexico, the last three added or confirmed alongside the November 2025 Sunrise Growers acquisition. Weighted by facility count that is two of five in Canada, two of five in the US, and one of five in Mexico. Product pages for the Costco-sold SKUs checked (dark sweet cherries, tropical fruit medley) both say the product is packed in Canada, so the Canadian-market share may run higher than this facility-count estimate.

  • Contact Nature’s Touch | Consumer, Client, or Partner vendor_statement “Head Office and Packing Facility 5105M Fisher Street Saint-Laurent, QC ... Freezing and Packing Facility ... Abbotsford, BC ... Packing Facility ... Front Royal, Virginia ... Packing Facility ... Edwardsville, Kansas ... Freezing and Packing Facility La Haciendita 8 ... Jacona Mexico”
  • Dark Sweet Cherries - Natures Touch vendor_statement “This product is proudly packed in Canada.”

People

32.0 inferred

CA 40% · other 20% · US 40%

The company is headquartered in Montreal and its careers page names Montreal-based staff, but four of its five packing plants are now outside Quebec, in BC, Virginia, Kansas, and Mexico. No public headcount by site was found, so people is estimated in line with the facility footprint rather than measured directly.

Inputs

24.0 inferred

CA 5% · other 95%

The sourcing page names one supplier explicitly, a Chilean berry grower with a twelve-year partnership, and otherwise describes sourcing fruit "from around the globe" with "multiple sourcing regions." No Canadian-grown input was named on the site; a small Canadian blueberry component is plausible for a Montreal packer but was not confirmed, so it is given only a token weight and the rest is treated as non-Canadian, non-US, non-EU sourcing consistent with the confirmed Chilean supply and the Mexico packing plant.

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