Major employers in Burlington

26 employers, 17 of them head offices: 10 worldwide, 3 national and 4 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

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Employers26
Worldwide HQ10
National HQ3
Regional HQ4
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Employers, largest first

People employed at the site in this city where a source publishes it; head offices without a published count follow.

CompanyHereEmployees hereWorldwide HQJobs
Halton District School BoardEducation — public school boardRegional HQHalton District School Board (public schools across Halton Region)6,6642025Burlington, OntarioCareers →
Joseph Brant HospitalHealth care — acute care hospitalMajor site2,0192026Burlington, OntarioCareers →
City of BurlingtonPublic administration — municipal governmentMajor site1,4262026Burlington, OntarioCareers →
Anaergia Inc.Clean technology — anaerobic digestion and waste-to-value systemsWorldwide HQglobal—Burlington, OntarioCareers →
Burlington Hydro Inc.Utilities — electric power distributionWorldwide HQcompany head office (local electricity distributor)—Burlington, OntarioCareers →
CoRecruit (formerly Quil)Software — AI assistant for recruitment agenciesWorldwide HQglobal—Burlington, Ontario—
EcoSynthetix Inc.Manufacturing — bio-based chemicals (biopolymers)Worldwide HQglobal—Burlington, OntarioCareers →
Evertz Microsystems Ltd.Technology — broadcast and media equipment and softwareWorldwide HQglobal—Burlington, OntarioCareers →
Hunter Amenities International Ltd.Manufacturing — hotel guest amenities and personal-care productsWorldwide HQglobal—Burlington, OntarioCareers →
Odyssey Health Services Ltd.Health care — disability management, rehabilitation and vocational servicesWorldwide HQglobal—Burlington, OntarioCareers →
Pinty's Delicious FoodsManufacturing — prepared chicken productsWorldwide HQglobal—Burlington, Ontario—
Pollard Windows & DoorsManufacturing — windows and doorsWorldwide HQglobal—Burlington, OntarioCareers →
Royal Botanical GardensArts, entertainment — botanical garden and nature sanctuariesWorldwide HQhead office (non-profit botanical garden)—Burlington, OntarioCareers →
Endress+Hauser Canada LtdManufacturing and distribution — process measurement instrumentspart of Endress+Hauser GroupNational HQCanada—Reinach, SwitzerlandCareers →
IKEA CanadaRetail — home furnishingspart of Ingka Group (not confirmed first-hand)National HQCanada—Leiden, Netherlands (Ingka Group; not confirmed first-hand)Careers →
Ottobock CanadaHealth care products — prosthetics, orthotics and mobilitypart of Ottobock SE & Co. KGaANational HQCanada—Duderstadt, Germany (not confirmed first-hand as HQ)Careers →
Halton Catholic District School BoardEducation — Catholic school boardRegional HQHalton Catholic District School Board (Catholic schools across Halton Region)—Burlington, OntarioCareers →
Tandia Financial (division of Alterna Savings)Finance — credit unionpart of Alterna Savings and Credit UnionRegional HQTandia Financial (eight branches in Hamilton, Brant and Halton)—Ottawa, OntarioCareers →
The CUMIS Group LimitedInsurance — credit union protection, insurance and wealth solutionspart of Co-operators Group LimitedRegional HQCUMIS (credit-union insurance arm of Co-operators) head office—Guelph, OntarioCareers →
Burlington Public LibraryPublic administration — public libraryMajor site—Burlington, OntarioCareers →
CedarlaneLife sciences — antibody manufacturing and reagent distributionMajor site—Burlington, Ontario (not stated as HQ on the page)—
McMaster University — DeGroote School of Business, Burlington CampusEducation — universitypart of McMaster UniversityMajor site—Hamilton, Ontario—
Samuel, Son & Co. — Packaging BurlingtonManufacturing — industrial packaging and metals processingMajor site—Oakville, Ontario (not confirmed first-hand)Careers →
Semtech — BurlingtonSemiconductors — signal integrity and IoT chipspart of Semtech CorporationMajor site—Camarillo, CaliforniaCareers →
Sofina Foods Inc. — BurlingtonManufacturing — meat and food processingMajor site—Markham, OntarioCareers →
Umicore Autocat Canada — BurlingtonManufacturing — automotive catalystspart of UmicoreMajor site—Brussels, BelgiumCareers →
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Notes on this record

  • Discover Burlington (formed 2025 from Burlington Economic Development and Tourism Burlington) names the 'Top 5 Private Sector Employers' as Sofina Foods Inc, Evertz Microsystems, Voortman Cookies Ltd, Hunter Amenities International Ltd and Cogeco, without headcounts. No Burlington or Halton employer list with headcounts was found; headcounts come from the employers' own pages and budgets.
  • Left out because their own sites could not be opened with the ResearchUpon UA (not retried): Cogeco (cogeco.ca and corpo.cogeco.com 403 on robots.txt; a top-5 employer, Cogeco Connexion's Ontario operations are in Burlington); Voortman Cookies (voortman.com TLS certificate expired); Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. (boehringer-ingelheim.com 403 on robots.txt; its Canadian HQ is in Burlington per general knowledge); Cargill, Reiser, MTE Consulting, Ecodyne and WeatherTech (403 on robots.txt); The StressCrete Group (connection reset / expired certificate); Comtek and Forming Technologies (connection failed); KSL Lubricants, SITA Canada and Ippolito (domains not resolving).
  • Checked and left out: Paystone (its about page says it was founded in London, ON and does not name Burlington); CleanDesign (VCBacked lists it in Burlington, but its US$20M Edison Partners growth round of April 2026 was datelined Toronto and Edison's portfolio page says only 'Ontario'); IRIS R&D Group (no Burlington location on its own site); AXYZ Automation (its 'Canada Headquarters (Manufacturing Site)' is in Waterdown, City of Hamilton).
  • No venture-funded software company headquartered in Burlington could be confirmed with a first-party funding source in this pass; CoRecruit is included as a Burlington software company without a funding object.
  • School-board headcounts are board-wide (all of Halton Region); both boards' head offices are in Burlington.
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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.