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Lassonde Industries Inc. is among the finalists for the 2026 Mercuriades in the High-Performance Manufacturing Company and Technological Innovation categories. This double nomination recognizes the company’s manufacturing performance as well as its capacity to innovate, notably through the implementation of a new multi-format aseptic line at one of its Rougemont plants in 2025. This investment […]

Beata Stolarski, Senior Director of Sales at Lassonde, is the recipient of a 2025 Star Women in Grocery award, an honor that celebrates the most influential and inspiring women in the Canadian food industry. A career marked by excellence With over 21 years of experience, Beata embodies excellence, resilience, and leadership in an ever-changing industry. […]

For the 2nd year in a row, Oasis was voted Canada’s most trusted juice brand in the 2024 Most Trusted Awards!1 The BrandSpark Most Trusted Awards recognize brands that consumers trust for exceptional service and quality products. Canadian consumers also voted Fruit to Go Fun Flavours as the Best New Kids Fruit Snack in the […]

Lassonde, one of the Canada’s Best Employers Lassonde was included on Forbes Magazine’s prestigious list of Canada’s Best Employers 2021. The company performed well in its industry, ending up at the very top of the Food, Soft Beverages, Alcohol & Tobacco category. It also ranked 216th among the polled Canadian companies. Conducted by the independent […]

A. Lassonde was awarded an award for its Apple & Eve Protein Smoothies at the Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards organized by the Retail Council of Canada. Congratulations to all our teams for the good work!

There are still so many stories left to tell! Like the tale of the crack team that succeeded in integrating two separate systems over the course of a single weekend following a corporate acquisition. Or the one about the ingenious purchasing manager who managed to circumvent a shortage of exotic fruit caused by an extreme […]

Ever since their initial foray into Boston and Miami, Lassonde’s management team had been thinking about how to gain a foothold in the United States. Conscious of the limits of the Canadian marketplace, Lassonde Industries’ President and Chief Operating Officer Jean Gattuso held out for just the right opportunity. Patience is also part of Lassonde’s […]

As we saw in the last column, Lassonde launched Arista Wines in 2006. This promising subsidiary allowed the company to use its expertise and technology to best advantage. Maximizing its assets, whether in the form of knowledge, physical plant, equipment or land, was always one of Lassonde’s guiding principles. Lassonde has deep roots in what […]