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Canada’s #1 cooked-meal delivery service, ethey Foods, is an entirely ethical, sustainable platform transforming the Canadian food & agricultural space for good. With their products at 0% waste, the powerhouse business has now expanded into an entire ecosystem, intending to assist new brands in reaching a national audience on a sustainable platform.
Who would have believed that a once door-to-door food delivery brand, pitched together in 2015, would have transformed into Canada’s sustainable coastal food empire? With a 33,000 sqft production facility, it’s no wonder the company ethey scored $1.5 million in revenue in just three years.
After expanding three times to keep up with the growing demand, the company’s successes skyrocketed them to the top of the food industry.
Having shipped over 2.5 million meals to over 180,000 customers and counting, the company grew to $16.7 million in revenue by 2021. This was achieved by building and acquiring profitable brands from the ethey platform. From their founding fitness-focused meal company, LiveFit, to four more impressive mergers – all with 0% food waste, the US FDA-approved company knew they had tapped into a refreshing opportunity.
Now only at 15% production capacity, ethey Foods is looking to further expand by building and acquiring additional brands or landing major food manufacturing contracts. With partners and advisors like Gary Vaynerchuk, Adam Gassman (Former VP of Growth at Freshly), Andy Smith (COO of FedEx Global), and other experts on their side, their goal is to prevent 1 billion pounds of food waste for generations to come.
Canada’s best and only coast-to-coast meal delivery service is more than just a brand; it’s a necessity. This is because ethey Foods believes it’s possible to live in a world where eventually, every meal has zero environmental impact on our planet.
The consequences of our world’s food waste have become rather unforgiving. Globally, food waste currently stands up to 30%, but in the United States alone, food waste is estimated to be 30-40%. And it does not end there. The impact of food waste goes beyond the surface level to include high levels of water usage, carbon emissions, livestock, and more.
But it’s founders like these that are changing, saving, and inserting new ways of conquering earth’s challenges that make it all worthwhile.
Founder and CEO Nick Spina, followed by his co-founder and EVP of Growth, Kyle Standaert, put their heart and soul into a space where they could eventually provide a grounded solution to create a world devoid of food waste – one chef-prepared meal at a time.
And after continuous uphill success, it was time to expand and grow the ethey Foods empire. By bringing new brands into the group, the team intends to make other businesses reach a national audience on a sustainable platform. And with the innovative use of sending any leftover organic matter to the worm farm to transform scraps into rich soil and fertilizer, this, plus their fully recyclable delivery boxes, is a massive step in the right direction.
Anyone looking to join their national business and lifelong partners ethey Foods have laid the groundwork for a $10 million revenue goal in 2022 and $60 million in 2023.
Alongside their goal, ethey Foods hope to provide businesses wishing to add their name to the growing empire with the same opportunities, from their production facilities to leading with a 0 food waste output. Beneath the rich underlying message of it all – this is a chance to be a part of an expanding service that is changing the world one delivery at a time.
“We are proud of our closed-loop food delivery system,” says Spina. “The cycle starts and ends with local farms, and our wormery partnership and zero-waste standards are what makes us uniquely forward-thinking.”
With the hopes to spread healthy lifestyle choices and reach a sustainable living, the team at ethey’s unbeatable one-stop food delivery service is guaranteed to last a lifetime.
For more information, check out https://www.ethey.com/.
