Ontario’s largest Canadian-owned brewery, Waterloo Brewing Ltd, announced that it will be partnering with the Sherway Group who will operate a 150,000 square foot warehouse facility in Ayr, Ontario which will act as both a storage and warehouse service on behalf of the Company. The Sherway Group has grown to be one of Ontario’s providers of supply chain services in the beer and alcoholic beverage industry for over 40 years.

“Our business is experiencing double-digit growth on both our owned brands and our co-manufacturing business,” said George Croft, President, and CEO, Waterloo Brewing. “This partnership with the Sherway Group provides us with a top-tier solution that delivers the quality and integrity our products demand with the flexibility to readily adjust to the rapidly growing needs of our business. We are thrilled that this latest plant expansion and the strategic decision to partner with the Sherway Group will allow us to manage our anticipated growth over the coming years. We are equally excited that these decisions will result in the local hiring of more great people into the Waterloo Brewing family as well as at the new Sherway warehouse facility.”

“Waterloo Brewing is an exciting company on a great trajectory. We envision a strategic partnership commencing to facilitate the growth of Waterloo Brewing,” said Paul Rockett, CEO, Sherway Group. “Our state-of-the-art facilities, advanced technologies, and passionate team position Sherway to provide Waterloo Brewing a critical component in their fulfillment stream. We know we can scale their business competitively.”

The installation has been upgraded to a capacity of 750,000 hectoliters per year to deliver a total can production capacity of 1.2 million hectoliters per year. Once the expansion is completed, the overall plant capacity will increase to 1.4 million hectolitres per year, making it one of the largest beer and alcoholic beverage production facilities in Canada.