Bick's Pickle is a pickle producer in Canada originally based out of Scarborough, Ontario. The brand is now sold in Canada by U.S.-based The J.M. Smucker Co..
Bick's emerged in 1951 in the Toronto area when local farmers George and Lena Bick and their son Walter began to pickle the cucumbers produced on their Knollview farm.[1][2] Beginning as a small operation of 60,000 jars, the Bick's produced 12 million jars in 1960.[1] The business was sold in 1966 to Kraft Foods Canada and later became part of International Multifoods.[3]
For 50 years the plant was a large commercial operation in the Scarborough City Centre area. However, the pickling and brining operations moved to Delhi, Ontario, in 1998 and remaining production to Dunnville, Ontario in 2001.
In 2004, The J.M. Smucker Co. acquired Bick's after it merged with International Multifoods. In 2010, Smuckers announced the closure of the both Ontario facilities and ths bringing an end to the Bick's production in Canada.[4] After 2011 all Bick's products will come from the United States and will be re-packaged Smucker's product in Canada and marked by the company's Markham, Ontario based head office.[5]
Filmmaker Roberto Muñoz is to shoot a documentary that studies the impact of the plant's closing on the town of Dunnville.[6]
The former plant at 333 Progress Avenue is now used by paperboard and recycling firm Atlantic Packaging.