David Roberts Food

What David Roberts Food does

David Roberts Food Corporation is a privately-held Canadian food products company headquartered at 675 Steeprock Drive, North York, Ontario, with a warehouse and customer pickup location in Concord, Ontario. The company supplies, imports, and processes nuts, dried fruits, snacks, candy, chocolate, and baking ingredients, organizing its catalog into six categories: Nuts & Seeds, Chocolate, Dried Fruits, Candy, Baking and Pantry, and Snacks & Trail Mix. Its core operational capability is in-house roasting of nuts and seeds (including copper-kettle praline cashews and a 100-year-old Southern peanut recipe), which the company uses as a freshness and quality differentiator against competitors that outsource roasting.

The company operates a multi-channel go-to-market model spanning four distinct channels: a factory outlet store serving direct consumers, wholesale distribution to large and small retailers throughout North America, dedicated food service supply to restaurants, caterers, and hospitality operators, and an owned e-commerce storefront with online ordering and shipping capability. Pricing is structured in two tiers: unit pricing for retail consumers (with display prices published on the website) and bulk/wholesale pricing for food service and retail business customers. Product breadth exceeds 100 individual SKUs, complemented by branded resale products such as M&M's, Reese's Pieces, and Merckens coatings.

David Roberts Food is positioned as a 30+ year Canadian operator with a horizontal segmentation approach across consumer, food service, and retail channels. The business is privately held with no disclosed external investors, parent company, or subsidiaries, and operates with a small headcount of 11–50 employees. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, and no patents, certifications, awards, or strategic transactions (M&A, funding rounds, leadership changes) are documented in the available data.

Name

David Roberts Food

Legal name

David Roberts Food Corporation

Website

https://davidrobertsfood.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

David Roberts Food Corporation is a Canadian supplier, importer, and processor of nuts, dried fruits, chocolate, snacks, and baking ingredients, serving food service operators, retailers across North America, and individual consumers through a factory outlet and e-commerce.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nut and Snack Food Distribution

NAICS

Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing (311911), Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing (3114), Food Manufacturing (311), Baked Goods Retailers (445291)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000), Miscellaneous Food Preparations & Kindred Products (2090), Sugar & Confectionery Products (2060), Wholesale-Groceries, General Line (5141)

akta.pro primary industry

Nuts Processing & Roasting (AFAKAIAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Nuts, Seeds & Dried Fruit Trading/Wholesale (AFAIAKAF), Ethnic Groceries & Shelf-Stable Foods Wholesale (AFAIAIAA), Bakery & Desserts Distribution (CRAOABAE)

Keywords

• Nuts and seeds
• Dried fruits
• Snack foods
• Baking ingredients
• Wholesale food distribution

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakville

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Product Sales: David Roberts Food generates revenue through the sale of nuts, dried fruits, snacks, baking ingredients, and chocolates directly to consumers, food service providers, and retailers across Canada.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

David Roberts Food Corp is a Canadian supplier, importer, and processor of nuts, dried fruits, snacks, candies, and baking ingredients. The company roasts many of its nuts and seeds in-house and offers thousands of SKUs across six categories: Nuts & Seeds, Chocolate, Dried Fruits, Candy, Baking and Pantry, and Snacks & Trail Mix. It distributes through its factory outlet store, an e-commerce website, food service supply operations, and retail distribution to large and small chains across North America.

Product overview

David Roberts Food Corp is a Canadian food products company with over 30 years of experience, serving as one of Canada's leading suppliers of nuts, dried fruits, snacks, and baking ingredients. The company operates as a single unified e-commerce platform offering a diverse portfolio of food products across six main categories: Nuts & Seeds (including almonds, walnuts, cashews, peanuts, pecans, pistachios, macadamia nuts, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, and various seeds), Chocolate (chips, bars, chocolate-covered items, cocoa powder, and branded candies like M&M's and Reese's), Dried Fruits (raisins, apricots, cranberries, cherries, mango, pineapple, papaya, figs, dates, coconut), Candy (hard candy, chewy candy, gummies, lollipops, mints), Baking and Pantry (flours, cocoa, baking powder, grains, lentils), and Snacks & Trail Mix (pretzels, sesame sticks, corn nuts, snack mixes). The company roasts many of its nuts in-house and serves both retail consumers and food service industry customers across Canada.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nuts & Seeds A wide variety of nuts including almonds, walnuts, cashews, peanuts, pecans, pistachios, macadamia nuts, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, as well as seeds such as sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds, and sesame seeds. Both raw and roasted varieties available, with options for salted and unsalted. Many varieties are roasted in-house.
• Chocolate Chocolate products including chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, chocolate covered nuts, chocolate covered fruits, cocoa powder, chocolate bark, and candy. Includes branded items such as M&M's, Reese's Pieces, Merckens coating wafers, and chocolate covered cashews, almonds, peanuts, raisins, blueberries, cherries, macaroons, and pretzels.
• Dried Fruits Assortment of dried fruits including raisins, apricots, cranberries, cherries, blueberries, mango, pineapple, papaya, figs, dates, kiwi, pears, apples, currants, prunes, peaches, and coconut. Includes sweetened, unsweetened, and yogurt/dark/milk chocolate-coated varieties.
• Candy Confectionery products including hard candy, chewy candy, gummy candies, lollipops, mints, licorice varieties, allsorts licorice, gummi bears, jelly beans, anise candy, and assorted lollipops.
• Baking and Pantry Baking ingredients and pantry staples including cocoa powder (light and dark), chocolate chips, flours (almond flour, coconut flour), baking powder, sea salt, sundried tomatoes, rice, quinoa, couscous, oats, lentils (green), wild rice, textured vegetable protein (TVP), granola, crystallized ginger, chia seeds, pine nuts, and psyllium.
• Snacks & Trail Mix Ready-to-eat snacks and trail mix combinations including pretzels, sesame sticks, Cajun sticks and Cajun snack mix, corn nuts, plantain chips, banana chips, sesame splendour mix, and assorted snack packages.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Setton International Food: Setton International Food is a US-based pistachio and snack nut processor/distributor with private-label manufacturing capability. Directly comparable to David Roberts Food as a mid-sized nut/snack supplier operating its own roasting and packaging facilities and serving retail and food-service channels.
• Mariani Nut Company: Mariani Nut Company is a US-based almond and nut processor serving retail, food service, and industrial customers with both branded and private-label products. Directly comparable as a multi-generational nut processor with in-house roasting, similar product breadth, and overlapping B2B/B2C channels.
• Kar's Nuts: Kar's Nuts is a US snack nut and trail mix manufacturer with branded retail products and private-label/packaging-for-retailer capabilities. Comparable to David Roberts Food on the snack/trail-mix side of the catalog, particularly private-label and ingredient supply to retailers.
• Bassé Nuts: Bassé is a South African-origin nut processor and distributor serving global markets with in-shell peanuts, tree nuts, and snack mixes. Comparable as a multi-category nut roaster and supplier with private-label and food-service capabilities, similar to David Roberts Food's roasting-centric model.

Broad incumbents

• Wonderful Pistachios: Wonderful Pistachios is the dominant branded pistachio grower/processor in North America with national retail distribution and major food-service accounts. A broader incumbent competitor to David Roberts Food, especially in the pistachio category and snack nuts channel.
• Diamond Foods: Diamond Foods is a publicly-traded nut snack company (Kettle Brand, Emerald, Diamond of California) with national branded distribution and food-service supply. A broader incumbent competing with DRF across multiple nut snack categories in retail and food service.
• Sun-Maid Growers of California: Sun-Maid is a large US cooperative producing branded dried fruits (raisins, cranberries, apricots) with national retail and ingredient-supply channels. Comparable on the dried fruit side of David Roberts Food's catalog and as a broader incumbent in shelf-stable fruit snacks and baking ingredients.

Emerging players

• Sahale Snacks: Sahale Snacks is a US-based premium nut and snack mix brand focused on better-for-you snacking with retail and food-service distribution. Comparable as a smaller, more differentiated player in the premium nut/snack-mix space where David Roberts Food also competes via its trail mix and specialty nut SKUs.

Regional players

• Old Dutch Foods: Old Dutch Foods is a Canadian snack manufacturer and distributor with branded chips, pretzels, and snack foods across Canada and the US Midwest. A regional peer in the Canadian snack market with overlapping product categories (pretzels, snack mixes) and similar multi-channel retail/food-service distribution.
• Dare Foods: Dare Foods is a Canadian family-owned snack and confectionery manufacturer producing crackers, cookies, candies, and nut-based snacks. Regional peer with comparable Canadian distribution, family-ownership profile, and overlap in the candy and baked-good ingredient categories.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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