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Member Benefits
Supporting Our Members Through Advocacy, Promotion, and Collaboration
The Ontario Craft Wineries helps its winery members navigate the industry, grow and be successful in the areas of:
- Industry & Government Affairs
- Regulatory & Policy Development
- Generic Marketing Programs
- Education & Opportunities
- Engagement & Communication
- Exclusive Trade Member to Member Offers
Our members work hard on their vineyards and in their wineries while we work hard in Toronto and Ottawa on your behalf.
Government Advocacy
By advocating at the regional, provincial and federal levels, the ongoing efforts of our board, winery members, and industry partners, over the past year OCW has helped deliver:
- Legislation to modernize the legal framework for the sale, service, and delivery of beverage alcohol in Ontario.
- $166 million for a new Wine Sector Support Program at the federal level.
- Two-time $10 million provincial grant to help wineries impacted by COVID-19.
- $10 million in funding to 2024–25 for the VQA Wine Support Program.
- $4.8 million for marketing and tourism promotion.
Member Resource Hub
- Town Halls – meet with other winery owners, winemakers, and industry partners, including the LCBO, OWAA, and AGCO, to build relationships and grow your network.
- Free webinars & educational opportunities specific to the Ontario VQA wine industry.
- Exclusive Member to Member Offers from our trade members.
- Opportunity for one-on-one support from the OCW team on issues that arise in terms of the LCBO, government programs, financial support, and regulatory matters.
- Ontario Craft Wine Conference – an engaging and educational conference featuring international and national industry experts discussing topics such as growing your business, wine clubs, diversity in the wine industry, sustainability, and more.
Communication & Media
- Weekly newsletters with industry updates & important notices from government and industry stakeholders.
- As the champion of Ontario’s VQA wine industry, we provide relevant information to national and local media about the growing importance of the Ontario VQA wine industry to the economy.
- Through social media, we actively promote member wineries and their products over channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, allowing us to educate consumers and engage with all stakeholders.
Trade Members
Our Trade Members span a diverse array of services that support your business including business consulting, event planning, financial and industrial services, insurance, law, manufacturing, office solutions, printing, and promotional services, retail supplies, and warehousing and logistics.
OCW holds regular Town Hall gatherings giving our members the opportunity to network with our Trade Partners.
Trade Members
Our Trade Members span a diverse array of services that support your business including business consulting, event planning, financial and industrial services, insurance, law, manufacturing, office solutions, printing, and promotional services, retail supplies, and warehousing and logistics.
OCW holds regular Town Hall gatherings giving our members the opportunity to network with our Trade Partners.
Business Consulting
- Kevin Douglas
- kevin@bevalytics.com
- 647-403-0377
- www.bevalytics.com
Bevalytics Consulting Group is a strategic consulting firm dedicated to supporting the growth efforts of the alcohol-beverage industry in Canada.
- Christina Atkinson
- catkinson@djb.com
- 905-684-9221
- www.djb.com
Let DJB’s Human Resources Advisory team support your organization’s human capital requirements by providing customized, professional, and affordable HR solutions.
Flowmation Systems supplies a real time inventory control system that tracks and traces operational data from harvest to bottling.
- Matt Bannister
- mbannister@lastcallanalytics.com
- 416-568-0295
- lastcallanalytics.com
Alcohol analytics that empower frontline sales teams and managers — identify opportunities to improve distribution, sales, and profitability.
- Olivia Siu
- osiu@lithica.wine
- 514-880-9833
- lithica.wine
Lithica Wine Marketing, led by Geoffrey Moss MW, is a boutique consulting agency that helps wineries develop effective, customer-centric business and marketing strategies.
WineTrax™ is a NuVerge industry solution built for the Wine & Beverage industry.
- Jim Kiss
- jim@spiritswineinfo.com
- Bill Davidson
- bill@spiritswineinfo.com
For 15 years, wineries big and small have called on Spirits Wine Information Group (SWIG) to help their businesses.
Educational Services
- Paul Miles
- director@iweg.org
- 416-534-2570
- www.iweg.org
The Independent Wine Education Guild (IWEG) is a not-for-profit organization made up of a community of professionals and enthusiasts connected by our passion for wine, spirits, sake and beer education for over 40 years.
Financial Services
- Ron Smith
- ronald.smith@desjardins.com
- 905-357-8052
- Joanna Brzozowska
- joanna.brzozowska@desjardins.com
- 289-257-1291
Desjardins has a long tradition of serving agri-businesses in many regions of Ontario, with specific expertise in agricultural and agri-food financing.
Industrial Services
- Marty Dortono
- martydorotno@gmail.com
- 905-341-4745
- newarkbottling.com
Longstanding ties to the area’s grape & wine industry.
Insurance & Health Benefits
- Johann Reandino
- jreandino@beniplus.ca
- 416-418-7388
- beniplus.ca
BeniPlus provides simple, flexible and affordable employee benefits for small businesses through an innovative and unique digital platform called the BeniPlus Wallet.
- Joshua Kearley
- jkearley@bkifg.com
- 289-221-5889
- www.beverageprotect.com
Our Program was designed by Winery owners for Wineries.
- Jeff Reuter
- Jreuter@reuter.on.ca
- 866-844-7144
- reuter.on.ca
Reuter & Reilly Insurance Brokers has proudly served the Niagara Region for nearly 100 years as a family business, and look forward to a bright future of serving our clients, and our community.
Law
- Lee Chitty
- lee@casesandcases.ca
- 819-968-6946
- casesandcases.ca
Cases & Cases provides legal and day-to-day business consulting for participants in the wine industry, particularily wineries.
Manufacturing
- Graham Wilson
- graham@aowilson.ca
- 905-271-5700
- www.fildelivery.com
A.O. Wilson is a third-generation company that was born and raised in the wine and beverage industry.
- Nirav Patel
- nirav.p@delosglass.com
- 416-505-0521
- www.delosglass.com
Delos Glass is your local glass bottle & cork supplier dedicated to providing high-quality wine bottles and packaging.
Glass supplier & distributor, providing lightweight, high quality glass bottles to wineries in the Niagara Region
Since 1972, Prospero Equipment Corp has been a family owned and operated business providing processing and packaging solutions servicing the wine, beer and spirits industry.
- Martin Halle
- mhalle@saxco.com
- 647-614-9811
- www.saxco.com
Delos Glass is your local glass bottle & cork supplier dedicated to providing high-quality wine bottles and packaging.
- Arek Froundjian
- arek.froundjian@unitedbottles.com
- unitedbottles.com
Founded in 1994, United Bottles & Packaging is a leading distributor of high-quality glass bottles.
Printing & Promotional Services
- Michelle Paquette
- mpaquette@artcraftlabel.ca
- 905-632-2314 ext: 232
- artcraftlabel.ca
Artcraft is an industry-leading label manufacturer offering high end specialized pressure sensitive label printing with a special focus on Wine and Spirits industry.
- Reg Freer
- tph091@tph.ca
- 905-682-2342
- www.tph.ca
TPH has been helping businesses across Canada find print solutions to fit their marketing needs and build their brands since 1961.
Retail Supplies
Shipping, Warehousing & Logistics
- Jason Stein
- jason@fildelivery.com
- 416-628-1853
- www.fildelivery.com
We are a niche logistics company that provides warehousing and last-mile distribution to wineries, distilleries, breweries, and zero-proof producers in Ontario.
- Wael Safieddine
- wael@flashbox.co
- 438-226-5089
- www.flashbox.co
FlashBox is a last-mile delivery company servicing the Greater Toronto Area and Vancouver, offering same-day delivery at the most competitive rate in the market today.
- Paul Bouwman
- pbouwman@gls-canada.com
- 514-636-8666
- www.gls-canada.com
GLS Canada provides Parcel, Freight and Logistics services to businesses across Canada.
Other
An award-winning circular-economy business, Nurture Growth Bio, is using microorganisms and food waste to help solve some of the largest problems facing the planet.