Our History

Founded in 1954, Denninger’s Foods of the World is now one of the largest family-owned specialty food operations in Canada. Denninger’s has its roots in the Blackforest region of Germany were Rudolf Denninger and his wife Frieda operated three stores. The Denninger family immigrated to Canada in 1953 and 6 months later established their first store on King Street East in Hamilton, Ontario in the downtown area. Denninger’s currently has six retail locations, a manufacturing plant and a warehouse in Southern Ontario and employs approximately 250 people.

Denninger’s quickly developed a reputation for the daily production of high quality European style sausages and smoke and fresh meats; especially among the European clientele who had immigrated to Canada following the Second World War. Additional stores were added throughout the 1970’s and the 1980’s in the Burlington, Oakville and Stoney Creek communities.