The Very Good Food Company
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| Company type | Public |
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| TSX-V: VERY Nasdaq: VGFC | |
| Industry | Food |
| Founded | 2017 |
| Founder | Mitchell Scott, James Davison[1] |
| Defunct | February 24, 2023 |
| Headquarters | Victoria, BC, Canada |
| Website | verygoodbutchers |
The Very Good Food Company was a meat alternative and vegan cheese company in British Columbia, Canada.[2][3] The company started in 2017 and appeared on the television show Dragon's Den in 2018.[4][5] In 2018, they successfully raised $600,000 from 240 local investors through Canadian equity-crowdfunding platform FrontFundr.[6] The plant-based meat alternatives they sold were known as the Very Good Butchers while the cheeses were known as The Very Good Cheese Company.[2][3]
The company was listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE).[7] This started in June 2020 with 16.1 million shares.[7]
The company announced on February 2, 2023 that they would be ceasing operations and would be selling off assets.[1][8]
References
[edit]- ^ LaFleur, April. "A Celebration of Vegan Meats and Entrepreneurism: Seth Tibbott of The Tofurky Company, and James Davison and Mitchell Scott of The Very Good Butchers - Animal Voices". Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Very Good Butchers brand adds cheese to its platter". Victoria News. 6 March 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Very Good Butchers team up with Pamela Anderson Foundation to support plant-based eating". Saanich News. 5 October 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ "The Very Good Butchers - Pitches - Dragons' Den". CBC. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ "Very Good Butchers to appear on Dragons' Den". Victoria News. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ "The Very Good Butchers Campaign On FrontFundr". FrontFundr. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- ^ a b "Victoria vegan butcher goes public on stock market". Peninsula News Review. 22 June 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ Fawcett-Atkinson, Marc (March 17, 2023). "The collapse of the Very Good Food Company". National Observer.
External links
[edit]- Business data for The Very Good Food Company:
- The Very Good Butchers website
- [2]