Our convenient transportation routes, proximity to markets, and the low total cost to manufacture make Lennox & Addington County an ideal choice for specialty food firms.

Ontario is home to more than 1,500 food processing firms and the region of eastern Ontario is one of the province’s major food clusters. Our area has a far higher proportion of large multinational firms than any other food processing cluster in Ontario. In addition, more than 9,000 food sector workers live in Eastern Ontario, the second-largest food processing cluster in the province.  The areas immediately surrounding Lennox & Addington offer a full range of related support services including cold storage, distribution, training programs, equipment fabrication, and packaging. 

Here's why existing companies have located in our region: