The West Royalty Business Park in Charlottetown will now be serving up potato salad and coleslaw.
Maritime Division of Charlottetown is expanding and moving to new facilities in the business park.
The company is the successor to Johnston’s Homestyle Products Ltd., which has been in business in Prince Edward Island since the early 1950s. Well-known throughout Eastern Canada for its potato salad and coleslaw, among other value-added agricultural products, Keybrand now occupies a total of 32,000 square feet of production facilities.
“We’ve essentially doubled the size of our processing and storage capacities,” said general manager Randy Johnston. “It is a new era for our business which has grown over the decades from its very beginnings in my grandparents’ kitchen to this state-of-the-art food processing facility.”
In P.E.I., Keybrand Foods employs up to 30 people in peak season and at least 20 on a year round basis. Johnston says the company is proud to support local agricultural producers buying 2.3 million pounds of potatoes and 1.75 million pounds of cabbage annually to make its signature products. The expansion means the company has been able to diversify its packaging and production capabilities, launching a Johnston Homestyle heritage brand of retail salads, among other products. The company has also gained the capacity for further growth in the years to come.
This year, more than 6.6 million pounds of Keybrand Food salads will be made in P.E.I. and sold throughout Atlantic Canada in grocery stores and in many restaurants.
“Our customers are incredibly loyal to our products and it is due to them that we have been able to undertake this expansion,” said Johnston “Our salads are the number-one preferred brand for consumers here in Atlantic Canada, and have been for more than four decades, which is quite an achievement.”
The move to the new facility required months of planning, along with extensive renovation of an existing building. Production levels were seamlessly maintained, as was the highest standard of food safety. This achievement is another success for Keybrand Foods and Johnston’s Homestyle Products which looks forward to providing quality local products to Atlantic Canadians for many years to come.
Keybrand Foods is a Canadian company with food processing plants in Ontario, Saskatchewan and P.E.I. The company has been in business since 1964, and associated with the Johnston’s Homestyle Products brand since 2000.
The West Royalty Business Park in Charlottetown will now be serving up potato salad and coleslaw.
Maritime Division of Charlottetown is expanding and moving to new facilities in the business park.
The company is the successor to Johnston’s Homestyle Products Ltd., which has been in business in Prince Edward Island since the early 1950s. Well-known throughout Eastern Canada for its potato salad and coleslaw, among other value-added agricultural products, Keybrand now occupies a total of 32,000 square feet of production facilities.
“We’ve essentially doubled the size of our processing and storage capacities,” said general manager Randy Johnston. “It is a new era for our business which has grown over the decades from its very beginnings in my grandparents’ kitchen to this state-of-the-art food processing facility.”
In P.E.I., Keybrand Foods employs up to 30 people in peak season and at least 20 on a year round basis. Johnston says the company is proud to support local agricultural producers buying 2.3 million pounds of potatoes and 1.75 million pounds of cabbage annually to make its signature products. The expansion means the company has been able to diversify its packaging and production capabilities, launching a Johnston Homestyle heritage brand of retail salads, among other products. The company has also gained the capacity for further growth in the years to come.
This year, more than 6.6 million pounds of Keybrand Food salads will be made in P.E.I. and sold throughout Atlantic Canada in grocery stores and in many restaurants.
“Our customers are incredibly loyal to our products and it is due to them that we have been able to undertake this expansion,” said Johnston “Our salads are the number-one preferred brand for consumers here in Atlantic Canada, and have been for more than four decades, which is quite an achievement.”
The move to the new facility required months of planning, along with extensive renovation of an existing building. Production levels were seamlessly maintained, as was the highest standard of food safety. This achievement is another success for Keybrand Foods and Johnston’s Homestyle Products which looks forward to providing quality local products to Atlantic Canadians for many years to come.
Keybrand Foods is a Canadian company with food processing plants in Ontario, Saskatchewan and P.E.I. The company has been in business since 1964, and associated with the Johnston’s Homestyle Products brand since 2000.
