Buyer enquiries for Canada are reviewed against current product availability, pack suitability, compliance, freight and importer readiness. Nothing on this page confirms regulatory approval or an active supply route.
Everything below is the honest version. We would rather lose an enquiry now than lose a container at the port later.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The importer must hold a Safe Food for Canadians licence and operate a written preventive control plan. The licence sits with the importer, not with us, but the CFIA will trace back to our plant if anything is questioned, so our documentation has to survive that inspection.
Duty on most soft drinks entering Canada is low or nil. The real cost is the label: a bilingual, Canada-specific artwork with a front-of-pack symbol is a separate print run, and a separate print run has a minimum order quantity attached to it.
Verify the tariff classification and current front-of-pack thresholds before quoting.
Bilingual artwork and the front-of-pack symbol. Together these mean Canada cannot share a print run with any other market. Do not quote Canada until you know the minimum order quantity on a Canada-only label, because that number sets the smallest viable first order.
Recent, fast-growing and young. Canada’s Indian population has grown faster than any other market here in the last decade, and recent arrivals buy familiar brands hardest.
South Asian supermarket chains across the Greater Toronto Area and Lower Mainland
Independent grocery clusters in Brampton, Surrey, Scarborough and northeast Calgary
Restaurant and banquet hall supply, which is unusually large in Canada
Prairie distribution routed through Vancouver
The current Zeros range uses a 300 ml PET marble bottle across six flavours. Classic Lemon carries the approved public product detail. 12 bottles per crate, 6 months shelf life, produced under FSSAI licence 20926012000879.
Destination labelling, formulation suitability, remaining shelf life and shipment configuration are confirmed before any order is accepted.
Where the buying actually happens in Canada, and how stock reaches each one.
Gerrard Street East and the Scarborough plazas carry an older, settled trade. Toronto is where the national chains and the largest banquet halls make their buying decisions.
Gerrard India Bazaar · Scarborough · Etobicoke — arriving through Montreal or Halifax.
More than half of Brampton is of South Asian origin, which makes Indian grocery the mainstream trade rather than a specialist one. The highest-density opportunity anywhere in North America.
Bramalea · Springdale · Gore Road — arriving through Montreal or Halifax.
Punjabi Market and the Newton corridor serve the largest Punjabi population outside India, and Vancouver is the shortest sea route from India to Canada.
Newton · Whalley · Punjabi Market — arriving through Vancouver.
Northeast Calgary has grown fast and is served through Vancouver rather than the east. Prairie distribution is thin, so a distributor who takes it takes a very wide territory.
Northeast Calgary · Falconridge · Martindale — arriving through Vancouver, then rail.
Tell us the volume, the channel and whether you already hold an import licence. We reply within one working day with a costed offer and a straight answer on certification.
Yes. We accept enquiries for Canada and assess current pack suitability, product availability, documentation, freight and importer readiness before confirming whether supply can proceed. A market page is not a claim of active regulatory approval or current shipment.
The importer must hold a Safe Food for Canadians licence and operate a written preventive control plan. The licence sits with the importer, not with us, but the CFIA will trace back to our plant if anything is questioned, so our documentation has to survive that inspection. In practice you will need: Importer’s Safe Food for Canadians licence; Importer’s preventive control plan naming our plant as the supplier; Traceability records to one step back and one step forward; Certificate of origin and commercial documentation. We supply the producer-side documentation for all of it. The importer-side registrations sit with you, and we will tell you plainly which is which before you spend anything.
There is no universal public minimum. The workable quantity depends on destination, pack, freight, remaining shelf life and the buyer’s compliance position. Share the proposed volume and we will confirm whether it is feasible.
Yes, and it is not optional. Bilingual English and French on all mandatory information — no exceptions is required, along with the rest of the market's mandatory information. We produce a Canada-specific artwork rather than stickering an Indian label, because stickered labels get rejected and they look exactly as cheap as they are.
Bilingual artwork and the front-of-pack symbol. Together these mean Canada cannot share a print run with any other market. Do not quote Canada until you know the minimum order quantity on a Canada-only label, because that number sets the smallest viable first order.
Since 1984. Over forty years making soda in north India, almost all of it in the unorganised trade where there are no contracts and no guaranteed shelf space — a shop reorders because the last case sold, or it does not. For a buyer in Canada the relevant point is continuity: the risk in a first container is whether the supplier is still there for the fourth.
Required compliance changes may be assessed, but no custom recipe, label or pack is promised before technical, legal, quantity and commercial feasibility are approved in writing.
Tell us where you sell and what you need. The team will confirm availability, the relevant process and any applicable commercial terms before commitment.