Pacific Ridge Corporation

Pacific Ridge Corporation, operating under the brand name PACRIDGE, is a Canadian plant-based food and ingredient company rooted in the agricultural heartland of the Prairie provinces. Founded on a deep farming heritage, the company bridges traditional dryland farming practices with advanced food processing technologies to produce a range of plant-based products targeting the retail and ingredient sectors. PACRIDGE's core offerings span three primary categories: biological farm inputs, plant-based ingredients, and plant-based beverages — with oat milk being a flagship consumer product. The company positions itself as a vertically integrated operation, partnering directly with farmers across extensive dryland farm acreage to source regenerative grains and pulses, ensuring traceability and ingredient quality from field to finished product. A key technological differentiator for PACRIDGE is its proprietary Sonic Milling™ process, a cutting-edge milling technology that the company leverages to produce nutrient-rich ingredients and beverages. This innovation supports both product quality and scalability within the plant-based category, enabling the company to compete in a rapidly growing market segment. The company actively pursues retail private brand partnerships, offering retailers the ability to attach their own brand names to on-trend plant-based products made with premium, regeneratively sourced ingredients. PACRIDGE's retail partner program encompasses grains, pulses, beverages, and raw ingredients, and also extends to sustainable packaging solutions, making it a comprehensive private-label partner for forward-thinking grocery and natural food retailers. PACRIDGE maintains active research partnerships with Canadian academic institutions, including the University of Saskatchewan's AgBio division and the University of Regina, focusing on agricultural challenges such as the Aphanomyces root rot crisis affecting pulse crops, as well as environmental issues in semi-arid regions of Saskatchewan. These university collaborations underscore the company's commitment to science-backed agricultural and food innovation. The company's vision is to become a pioneering leader in the plant-based industry through scalable, technology-driven solutions. Its leadership team includes executives with backgrounds spanning sales, marketing, engineering, and finance, supported by an active board of directors. Geographically based in Canada's Prairie region, PACRIDGE serves both domestic and potential international markets through its retail brand partnership model, ingredient supply, and consumer-facing plant-based beverage lines.