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Cision Canada
05-06-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Call2Recycle Canada and Christine Sinclair Thank Partners as They Bring Battery Recycling Awareness Tour to Alberta during Canadian Environment Week Français
EDMONTON, AB, June 5, 2025 /CNW/ - Following the successful April 1 launch of its Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! program in Alberta, Call2Recycle is hitting the road to boost public awareness and bring the message of battery recycling directly to Albertans. On June 5 and 6, the organization will host high-profile community events in the Edmonton and Calgary areas with its brand ambassador, Canadian soccer legend Christine Sinclair, thanking partners and engaging citizens in the importance of safely recycling household batteries. At the core of this awareness tour is a vital partnership with the Alberta Recycling Management Authority (ARMA), the province's oversight authority for extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs. ARMA plays a central role in supporting Call2Recycle's efforts to bring convenient, safe and accessible battery recycling solutions to Albertans. "We are proud to support the recent, successful launch of Call2Recycle's battery recycling program – Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! – in Alberta," said Ed Gugenheimer, CEO of ARMA. This initiative helps Albertans make informed choices about responsible waste management and reflects the collaborative approach we need to build a sustainable, circular economy while inspiring a future without waste." Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer legend and Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! national brand ambassador, will participate in all events during the two-day tour, inspiring Albertans of all ages to take small, intentional steps toward a sustainable future. "I've spent my career representing Canada on the field, and now I'm proud to support a cause that represents Canada off the field," said Christine Sinclair. "Battery recycling is a simple action that makes a real difference for our environment, and I'm excited to join Call2Recycle in showing Albertans how easy and powerful that action can be." The tour begins on June 5 in Sherwood Park, with a visit to New Horizons elementary school alongside education partner Earth Rangers – a leading children's conservation charity, to inspire Canadian youth, families, and schools to adopt positive environmental practices – and representatives from Strathcona County. The event will feature engaging environmental activities for students and highlight how proper battery disposal helps protect the environment while announcing the longstanding, successful Battery Blitz contest, which has elementary schools compete to collect the largest volume of used household batteries for recycling, coming to schools across Alberta in Fall 2025. Following this event, the Call2Recycle team will meet City of Edmonton representatives at an Eco Station to promote proper battery disposal and recycling within the city. On June 6, the awareness tour continues in Calgary, with a visit to a Calgary Co-op location, a key retail battery collection partner in Call2Recycle's growing province-wide network of over 1,100 convenient battery collection locations. Calgary Co-op is bringing Call2Recycle's innovative and first-of-its-kind in North America smart battery collection containers across its grocery stores, enhancing safety and making it easier than ever for its shoppers and employees to recycle batteries responsibly. The tour wraps up at the West Hills United Soccer Club, a Calgary community sports organization proudly sponsored by Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! With representatives from the City of Calgary, Sinclair will engage with young athletes and their families to reinforce how environmental action, community engagement, and sport contribute to a more sustainable future. These events celebrate the collaborative spirit behind the Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! program and aim to build long-term recycling habits throughout the province. Call2Recycle sincerely thanks ARMA, Earth Rangers, Calgary Co-op, West Hills United Soccer Club, and the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, and other leading municipalities, and many partners within its network, for their commitment and support. Together, Call2Recycle and its partners are leading the charge for recycling. About Call2Recycle Canada, Inc. For more information, please visit our website: Call2Recycle is Canada's leading organization for the collection and recycling of batteries and battery-powered products. As a trusted steward for more than 400 members including producers of single-use and rechargeable batteries Call2Recycle fulfills regulatory obligations while advancing a circular economy. The organization manages several leading programs, including Recycle Your Batteries, Canada! for household and e-bike batteries, Recycle Your Vapes for battery-powered vapes and e-cigarettes in Québec, and the voluntary EV Battery Recovery program for electric vehicle batteries, also in Québec. Call2Recycle operates provincially-approved programs in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Québec, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia, and serves as a registered Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) in Ontario and Alberta. Its collection and recycling services cover household batteries (up to 5 kg) and e-transport batteries used in e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards, hoverboards, and electric vehicles (EVs). Since 1997, Call2Recycle has diverted more than 50 million kilograms of batteries from Canadian landfills. It is committed to excellence in environmental stewardship, holding certifications in globally recognized standards, including R2v3, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and ISO 9001. With a network of over 15,000 collection locations—including leading retailers and municipal sites—Call2Recycle is a trusted partner in building a cleaner, more sustainable Canada.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Cizzle Brands Expands its Western Canadian Footprint With All Calgary Co-op and Freson Bros. Stores Now Selling CWENCH Hydration™
As the CWENCH Hydration™ brand continues to gain popularity, Cizzle Brands is strategically adding new retailers in select North American markets. Calgary Co-op and Freson Bros. are both chains of supermarkets in Alberta, and are expected to play a key role in building out the presence of CWENCH Hydration™ in Western Canada. TORONTO, February 20, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cizzle Brands Corporation (Cboe Canada: CZZL) (OTC: CZZLF) (Frankfurt: 8YF) (the "Company" or "Cizzle Brands"), is pleased to announce that all four ready-to-drink ("RTD") flavours of its flagship product CWENCH Hydration™ are available for purchase chain-wide at Calgary Co-op and Freson Bros., each of which are major regional grocery chains in the Canadian province of Alberta. In addition to the RTD beverages, Freson Bros. is also carrying 10-count packs of CWENCH Hydration Mix packets in all four flavours. This placement adds to the brand's presence in Western Canada, following the Company's recent announcement that Kelowna-based gas station chain Canco Petroleum began carrying the full RTD lineup of CWENCH Hydration™ beverages. Calgary Co-op is a member-owned retail cooperative with over 440,000 members that offers a full range of grocery products, in addition to pharmacy and fuel at select locations. Its first location was opened in 1956, working directly with local farmers and ranchers to offer locally sourced foods to Calgary-area residents and visitors. In 2025, Calgary Co-op has 43 stores and a total of 3,850 employees. More information about Calgary Co-op can be found on its website: Freson Bros was founded in 1955 as a butcher shop, and later expanded into full-scale grocery. With 16 locations across the province of Alberta and over 1,000 employees, Freson Bros is situated in key Alberta markets including Edmonton, Grande Prairie, and Peace River. More information about Freson Bros. can be found on its website: Cizzle Brands' Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, John Celenza commented "Step by step, we are strategically building out a market presence for CWENCH Hydration™ across North America. Community grocers such as Calgary Co-op and Freson Bros. are important pillars of this strategy as we continue to gain market acceptance. CWENCH Hydration™ keeps growing its market share in Western Canada, and we plan to keep up this momentum with the addition of these two grocery chains in Alberta. We are excited to be working with Calgary Co-op and Freson Bros. as we continue commercializing the CWENCH Hydration™ brand across Canada." About Cizzle Brands Corporation Cizzle Brands Corporation is elevating the game in health and wellness. Through extensive collaboration and testing with leading athletes and trainers across several elite sports, Cizzle Brands has launched two leading product lines in the sports nutrition category: (i) CWENCH Hydration™, a better-for-you sports drink that is now carried in over 1,200 stores in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and (ii) Spoken Nutrition, a premium brand of athlete-grade nutraceuticals that carry the prestigious NSF Certified for Sport® qualification. All Cizzle Brands products are designed to help people achieve their best in both competitive sports and in living a healthy, vibrant, active lifestyle. For more information about Cizzle Brands, please visit: For more information about CWENCH Hydration™, please visit: Notice Regarding Images and Links: This press release may contain images and/or links to outside web pages, which could play an important role in providing the full context of the news update being conveyed through this press release. 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Such forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words and phrases such as "plans", "expects", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates", or "believes" or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to the Company. Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other risk factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such risks include risks related to increased competition and current global financial conditions, access and supply risks, reliance on key personnel, operational risks, regulatory risks, financing, capitalization and liquidity risks. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation, except as otherwise required by law, to update these forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors change. 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Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Odd Burger Announces New Retail Listing with Calgary Co-op
LONDON, ON, Feb. 7, 2025 /CNW/ - Odd Burger Corporation ("Odd Burger" or the "Company") (TSXV: ODD) (OTCPK: ODDAF) (FSE: IA9) is pleased to announce that it has expanded the distribution of its consumer packaged goods ("CPG") line through a new retail listing with Calgary Co-op. The new listing will bring the Company's full retail line to 22 Calgary Co-op locations in and around Calgary, Alberta. The Company currently has 5 frozen retail products including its Crispy ChickUn Fillet, Chickpea Burger, Smash Burger, ChickUn Pretenders and Breakfast Sausage. Calgary Co-op has been serving Calgarians since 1956, providing fresh farm-to-table foods and sourcing as much food as possible from local and Canadian producers. "We are very excited to partner with Calgary Co-op to expand our retail presence in the Alberta market," says James McInnes, CEO and Co-Founder of Odd Burger. "We are proud to produce our food at our Canadian manufacturing facility, using primarily Canadian-grown ingredients, and we are excited to work with Calgary Co-op to further their mission to support local producers." "We are proud to support a Canadian-owned and operated business, like Odd Burger," says James Lelonde, Meat Category Director at Calgary Co-op. "We see tremendous potential for the Odd Burger retail line with our customers and we are thrilled to make them available at all of our retail locations." The addition of Calgary Co-op nearly doubles the Company's distribution points for its retail line and is a significant step in diversifying the Company's revenue sources. About Odd Burger Corporation Odd Burger Corporation is a franchised vegan fast-food restaurant chain and food technology company that manufactures a proprietary line of plant-based protein and dairy alternatives. Its manufactured products are distributed to Odd Burger restaurant locations through its foodservice line and also sold at grocery retailers through its consumer-packaged goods (CPG) line. Odd Burger restaurants operate as smart kitchens, which use state-of-the art cooking technology and automation solutions to deliver a delicious food experience to customers craving healthier and more sustainable fast food. With small store footprints optimized for delivery and takeout, advanced cooking technology, competitive pricing, a vertically integrated supply chain along with healthier ingredients, Odd Burger is revolutionizing the fast-food industry by creating guilt-free fast food that can be enjoyed at its restaurant locations or at home though its CPG line. Odd Burger Corporation is traded on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "ODD" and on the OTCPK under the symbol "ODDAF". For more information visit Forward-Looking Information This news release contains forward-looking information for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that reliance on such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. Any such forward-looking information may be identified by words such as "proposed", "expects", "intends", "may", "will", and similar expressions. Forward looking information contained or referred to in this news release includes statements relating to approval of the TSX Venture Exchange, future restaurant openings, potential franchisees, demand for our products and other similar statements. Forward-looking information is based on several factors and assumptions which have been used to develop such information, but which may prove to be incorrect including, but not limited to material assumptions with respect to the continued strong demand for the Company's products, the availability of sufficient financing on reasonable terms to fund the Company's capital requirements and the ability to obtain necessary equipment, production inputs and labour. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking information because the Company can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking information include, among others, negative cash flow and future financing requirements to sustain and grow operations, limited history of operations and revenues and no history of earnings or dividends, expansion of facilities, competition, availability of raw materials, dependence on senior management and key personnel, general business risk and liability, regulation of the food industry, change in laws, regulations and guidelines, compliance with laws, unfavourable publicity or consumer perception, product liability and product recalls, risks related to intellectual property, difficulties with forecasts, management of growth and litigation, as well as the impact of, uncertainties and risks associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. For a more comprehensive discussion of the risks faced by the Company, please refer to the Company's Annual Information Form filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities at The forward-looking information in this news release reflects the current expectations, assumptions and/or beliefs of the Company based on information currently available. Any forward-looking information speaks only as of the date on which it is made and, except as may be required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise. The forward-looking information contained in this news release is expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. Non-GAAP Measures This news release may refer to certain non-GAAP measures. These measures are not recognized measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS, and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of our results of operations from management's perspective. Accordingly, these measures should not be considered in isolation nor as a substitute for analysis of our financial information reported under IFRS. The TSX Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. SOURCE Odd Burger Corporation View original content to download multimedia:
