What is Weston?
George Weston Ltd is a Canadian public Limited company that is engaged in the food processing and food distribution business throughout the country. It is commonly known as Weston or Weston's. The name of the company was given in the honour of its founder,'George Weston'. It was began its operations in 1882 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company employs over 140, 800 people. George Weston Ltd is one of the biggest and fast-growing food processing and distribution companies in Canada. Its stock is listed on the Toronto stock exchange under the trading symbol "WN". The company operates 45 manufacturing facilities which are located in different parts of Canada. George Weston Ltd makes a variety of fresh, frozen and other bakery products such as breads, cookies, rolls, donuts, bagels, crackers, tortillas, cakes, pies, and others. The company sells its bakery products under the brand names: Moelleux, Mealtyme, Gadoua, Ready Bake, Sarfield's, Wonder Bread and Vitalite in the United States and Canada. Its main objective is to provide the best bakery products to the customers in North America. Loblaw Companies Limited, Ready Bake Foods Inc., Weston Bakeries Limited, Interbake Foods Inc., Maplehurst Bakeries, Inc., Ace Bakery and Norse Dairy Systems are major operating units of the George Weston Ltd. Loblaw Companies Limited is the largest food distributor in Canada that operates several grocery retail chains in the North America under different market banners.