Major employers in Barrie
28 employers, 20 of them head offices: 18 worldwide, 1 national and 1 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.
Barrie — the /local page · Who represents Barrie · Companies
Employers28
Worldwide HQ18
National HQ1
Regional HQ1
1
Employers, largest first
People employed at the site in this city where a source publishes it; head offices without a published count follow.
| Company | Here | Employees here | Worldwide HQ | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School BoardEducation — Catholic school board | Major site | 4,8002026 | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH)Health care — acute-care regional hospital | Major site | 4,1392026 | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Georgian CollegeEducation — college of applied arts and technology | Major site | 1,8002026 | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Napoleon (Wolf Steel Ltd.)Manufacturing — fireplaces, grills, HVAC equipment | Worldwide HQglobal | 7372015 | Barrie, Ontario | — |
| Southmedic Inc.Manufacturing — medical devices (oxygen delivery, surgical products) | Worldwide HQglobal | 6002026 | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Barrie Welding & Machine (1974) LtdManufacturing — machining, welding and fabrication | Worldwide HQsingle site | 2302026 | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Barrie Public LibraryLibraries | Major site | 1502026 | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Aeroex TechnologiesManufacturing — industrial air filtration | Worldwide HQglobal | — | Barrie, Ontario | — |
| AlbarrieManufacturing — nonwoven technical fabrics, filtration, oil containment | Worldwide HQglobal | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Aventech Research Inc.Manufacturing — airborne atmospheric and wind measurement instruments | Worldwide HQglobal | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Bill Gosling OutsourcingBusiness process outsourcing — customer experience and accounts-receivable (collections) contact centres | Worldwide HQglobal | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Brotech Precision CNCManufacturing — precision CNC machining | Worldwide HQsingle site | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Busch Systems InternationalManufacturing — recycling and waste containers | Worldwide HQglobal | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Innovative Automation Inc.Manufacturing — custom automation and test systems | Worldwide HQglobal (Innovative group head office; MecSmart facility in Newmarket) | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Kinetica 3D DentalDental technology — orthodontic aligner software and automation | Worldwide HQCanada (head office Barrie; branch in Toronto) | — | Barrie, Ontario | — |
| LAE Technologies Inc.Manufacturing — rapid prototyping, 3D printing, tooling | Worldwide HQsingle site | — | Barrie, Ontario | — |
| Linear Transfer Automation Inc. (Linear Automation)Manufacturing — press and stamping automation machinerypart of Nidec Corporation (via Nidec Press & Automation) | Worldwide HQLinear Automation business (locations Barrie, Windsor ON, Louisville KY) | — | Kyoto, Japan (Nidec); Nidec Press & Automation in Minster, Ohio | Careers → |
| MediPharm LabsManufacturing — GMP cannabinoid pharmaceutical extraction | Worldwide HQglobal | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Moore PackagingManufacturing & distribution — corrugated packaging and supplies | Worldwide HQsingle site | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| OrderEaseSoftware — B2B order management SaaS | Worldwide HQglobal | — | Barrie, Ontario | — |
| Prodomax Automation Ltd.Manufacturing — industrial automation and robotic systems | Worldwide HQglobal | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Resonance Ltd.Manufacturing — electro-optics (light sources, spectrometers, detectors) | Worldwide HQglobal | — | Barrie, Ontario | — |
| Suzuki Canada Inc.Wholesale — motorcycles, ATVs and marine engines (national distributor)part of Suzuki Motor Corporation | National HQCanada | — | Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan | Careers → |
| Simcoe Muskoka Family ConnexionsSocial services — child welfare | Regional HQchildren's aid / child-welfare agency for Simcoe County and Muskoka (head office Barrie; offices incl. Bracebridge, Collingwood) | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| City of BarriePublic administration — municipal government | Major site | — | Barrie, Ontario | Careers → |
| Coke Canada Bottling — Barrie Distribution CentreBeverage distributionpart of Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited | Major site | — | Toronto, Ontario | Careers → |
| Simcoe County District School BoardEducation — public school board | Major site | — | Midhurst, Ontario | Careers → |
| Sterling Industries — BarrieManufacturing — medical device contract manufacturingpart of Sterling Industries | Major site | — | not stated (sites in Kalamazoo MI, Woodbridge, Concord and Barrie ON) | Careers → |
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Notes on this record
- Built 2026-10-30. Invest Barrie publishes no ranked top-employer list. The City's Business & Employer Data Survey (2025) holds per-business employment counts, but its ArcGIS feature service host returned HTTP 403 for robots.txt, so it was not read.
- Headcounts from primary sources: RVH 4,139 (2025–26 annual report); SMCDSB 4,800 board-wide; Georgian College ~1,800 college-wide; Napoleon/Wolf Steel 737 in the Barrie region (2015 federal release); Southmedic 600+; Barrie Welding 230+; Barrie Public Library ~150.
- Napoleon: napoleon.com robots.txt has 'Disallow: /' for all agents, so the company site was not opened; the row rests on the Government of Canada 2015 releases.
- Blocked or not reached: Canplas Industries (canplas.com robots.txt 403 — not added, though secondary reports place its head office in Barrie); Barrie Police Service (barriepolice.ca 403); Environmental Systems Corporation (e-s-c.com robots disallow); Tollos (robots 403); AG NAV (robots disallow); CMHA Simcoe County (cmhastarts.ca unreachable); ctvnews.ca and orilliamatters.com robots disallow.
- Simcoe County District School Board and the County of Simcoe have their head offices in Midhurst (Springwater Township), just outside Barrie. The school board is listed because many Barrie schools belong to it. The County is not listed.
- Hydro One's Ontario Grid Control Centre has moved to Orillia (see ca-orillia); Barrie was reported as its backup site, but this was not confirmed from Hydro One's own pages.
- Funded software: only OrderEase was confirmed from the company's own releases (seed). No larger venture-backed software company headquartered in Barrie was found.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-30. Each headcount links to the page it is read from; each company to its own site or its /company page.
- Invest Barrie (City of Barrie economic development) — key-sector pages and Advanced Manufacturing Fact Sheet · retrieved 2026-10-30Terms: none stated; © 2026 InvestBarrie & City of Barrie. No ranked top-employer list or headcounts published
- City of Barrie — Business & Employer Data Directory (2025 survey) · retrieved 2026-10-30Terms: ArcGIS item licence: '© Copyright City of Barrie … does not warrant the accuracy'. The feature service host (services3.arcgis.com) returned 403 for robots.txt, so the data were not read
- Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre — 2025–2026 Annual Report · retrieved 2026-10-30Terms: none stated
- Government of Canada (FedDev Ontario) — Wolf Steel Ltd. funding announcement, 13 Jan 2015 (archived) · retrieved 2026-10-30Terms: Canada.ca terms; archived page
- Company and institution own websites (about, contact, careers, press pages) · retrieved 2026-10-30Terms: none read beyond pages used