Major employers in Medicine Hat

12 employers, 4 of them head offices: 2 worldwide, 1 national and 1 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

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Employers12
Worldwide HQ2
National HQ1
Regional HQ1
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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
Medicine Hat Public School DivisionEducation — elementary and secondary schoolsRegional HQMedicine Hat Public School Division (16 schools in the City of Medicine Hat; central office in the city)6502026Medicine Hat, AlbertaCareers →
Big Marble FarmsAgriculture — greenhouse vegetable growingWorldwide HQglobal (greenhouse produce grower, Medicine Hat)—Medicine Hat, AlbertaCareers →
Chinook Greenhouse (1990) Ltd.Agriculture — greenhouse and nursery productionpart of C2C TreesWorldwide HQglobal (tree-seedling greenhouse, Medicine Hat)—Medicine Hat, Alberta—
QinetiQ Canada — Medicine HatAerospace and defence — target systems and uncrewed aircraftpart of QinetiQ GroupNational HQQinetiQ Canada (Medicine Hat facility — QinetiQ Target Systems)—Farnborough, United KingdomCareers →
Alberta Health Services — Medicine Hat Regional HospitalHealth care — acute-care hospitalpart of Alberta Health ServicesMajor site—Edmonton, AlbertaCareers →
Bevo Farms — Medicine HatAgriculture — greenhouse plant propagationpart of Bevo FarmsMajor site—Langley, British ColumbiaCareers →
City of Medicine HatPublic administration — municipal government and utilitiesMajor site—Medicine Hat, AlbertaCareers →
Goodyear Canada — Medicine Hat plantManufacturing — tirespart of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyMajor site—Akron, Ohio—
Medicine Hat CollegeEducation — collegeMajor site—Medicine Hat, AlbertaCareers →
Medicine Hat Police ServicePublic administration — policeMajor site—Medicine Hat, Alberta—
Methanex — Medicine HatChemical manufacturing — methanolpart of Methanex CorporationMajor site—Vancouver, British ColumbiaCareers →
Varsteel Ltd. — Medicine HatWholesale — steel service centre and processingpart of Varsteel Ltd.Major site—not stated on pages read—
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Notes on this record

  • Medicine Hat Economic Development publishes no ranked employer list with headcounts; its 2026 Community Profile profiles 'success stories' and its Why Medicine Hat page shows 'Anchor Companies' as logos only.
  • CF Industries' Medicine Hat nitrogen complex is, per the City's 2026 Community Profile, 'the city’s largest industrial employer, with more than 200 employees' ('Canada’s largest nitrogen manufacturing complex', up to 1.5 million tonnes a year) — no row because cfindustries.com robots.txt returned HTTP 500 (treated as disallowed). Also left out on robots grounds: Cancarb (cancarb.com 'Disallow: /'; carbon-black plant that supplies up to 20% of the city's power), UVAD Technologies (uvad.ca 'Disallow: /'; UAV developer, C$2.6M PrairiesCan funding in late 2024 per the City profile), Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education (mhcbe.ab.ca 'Disallow: /'), I-XL brickworks (site unreachable).
  • Hut 8 lists a Medicine Hat site on its home page (bitcoin mining) but headquarters outside Canada; not given a row. CFB Suffield and QinetiQ's range work sit outside the city; Cypress County and the Town of Redcliff are separate municipalities.
  • No venture-funded software company headquartered in Medicine Hat could be confirmed; UVAD (above) is the nearest case.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-31. Each headcount links to the page it is read from; each company to its own site or its /company page.