Major employers in Richmond

35 employers, 19 of them head offices: 19 worldwide, 0 national and 0 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

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Employers35
Worldwide HQ19
National HQ0
Regional HQ0
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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
Ebco Industries Ltd.Manufacturing — heavy fabrication and machiningWorldwide HQglobal450Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Nature's Path FoodsFood manufacturing — organic cerealsWorldwide HQglobal400Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Crown PackagingManufacturing — corrugated packagingWorldwide HQWestern Canada370Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Tree Island Steel (Tree Island Industries Ltd.)Manufacturing — steel wire and wire productsWorldwide HQglobal350Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Heli-One CanadaAircraft maintenance — helicopter MROMajor site290—Careers →
Pacific Coastal AirlinesAir transportation — regional airlineWorldwide HQglobal275Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
IKEA RichmondRetail — home furnishings; distribution centrepart of IKEA (Ingka Group)Major site200—Careers →
WhiteWater West IndustriesManufacturing — waterpark design and equipmentWorldwide HQglobal165Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
General Fusion Group Ltd.Energy R&D — magnetized target fusionWorldwide HQglobal1302026Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
GEA Refrigeration Canada Inc.Manufacturing — industrial freezers and chillerspart of GEA GroupMajor site130Düsseldorf, GermanyCareers →
Terminal Forest Products Ltd.Sawmilling — western red cedarWorldwide HQglobal120Richmond, British Columbia—
Helijet International Inc.Air transportation — helicopter scheduled, charter and air medicalWorldwide HQglobal100Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Lafarge Canada — Richmond cement plantCement manufacturingpart of AmrizeMajor site100——
Avigilon — Richmond manufacturingVideo security systems manufacturingpart of Motorola SolutionsMajor site80Chicago, IllinoisCareers →
The Keg Restaurants Ltd.Restaurants — steakhousesWorldwide HQglobal50Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Advanced Cyclotron Systems Inc. (ACSI)Manufacturing — cyclotrons for nuclear medicinepart of Ebco groupWorldwide HQglobal—Richmond, British Columbia—
bioLytical Laboratories Inc.Medical diagnostics — rapid in-vitro testsWorldwide HQglobal—Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Boston Pizza International Inc.Restaurants — casual dining franchisorWorldwide HQglobal—Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Cadex Electronics Inc.Battery chargers and diagnostics equipmentWorldwide HQglobal—Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Fusion Genomics CorporationGenomic diagnostics — targeted metagenomics and AI softwareWorldwide HQglobal—Richmond, British Columbia—
Ideon TechnologiesSubsurface imaging — cosmic-ray muon tomography platform for miningWorldwide HQglobal—Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Norsat International Inc.Satellite and radio communications equipmentWorldwide HQglobal—Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Premium Brands Holdings CorporationSpecialty food manufacturing and distributionWorldwide HQglobal—Richmond, British Columbia—
Shearwater Research Inc.Electronics — dive computersWorldwide HQglobal—Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Canada Post — Pacific Processing CentrePostal service — mail and parcel processingpart of Canada Post CorporationMajor site—Ottawa, Ontario—
City of RichmondLocal governmentMajor site—Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Harbour Air SeaplanesAir transportation — seaplane airlineMajor site—Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
MDA Space — RichmondAerospace — space robotics, satellites and geointelligencepart of MDA Space Ltd.Major site——Careers →
Ocean Spray Canada — RichmondFood processing — cranberriespart of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Major site—Lakeville-Middleboro, MassachusettsCareers →
Purolator — RichmondCourier and logisticspart of Canada Post CorporationMajor site——Careers →
Richmond Olympic OvalRecreation — multi-sport facilitypart of City of RichmondMajor site—Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Richmond School District (School District No. 38)Education — K-12 public schoolsMajor site—Richmond, British ColumbiaCareers →
Sierra Wireless, ULC (Semtech) — RichmondIoT modules, connectivity and cloudpart of Semtech CorporationMajor site—Camarillo, CaliforniaCareers →
SignalChem Biotech Inc.Life-science reagents — cell signalling proteinspart of Sino BiologicalMajor site——Careers →
StandardAero — RichmondAircraft maintenance — engine and component MROpart of StandardAeroMajor site——Careers →
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Notes on this record

  • No ranked "top employers" table with headcounts is published by Richmond Economic Development; headcounts here are those its sector "Company Profiles" pages state for individual companies (pages undated). employeesYear is left null for those.
  • Blocked or not recorded: Vancouver Airport Authority (yvr.ca — Cloudflare challenge; Richmond ED says over 23,000 people work in airport-related jobs on Sea Island), London Drugs (head office and 419,000 sq ft distribution centre in Richmond, over 700 employees per Richmond ED; londondrugs.com robots.txt returned 403), T&T Supermarket (Richmond HQ; robots.txt 403), Vancouver Coastal Health / Richmond Hospital (vch.ca robots.txt 403), Richmond Plywood (no response), Great Little Box Company (glbc.com robots.txt 403), Intercity Packers and Coast 2000 Terminals (no response), Clevest (robots 429), Teledyne FLIR (Cloudflare). They are left out because their own sites could not be opened.
  • Left out on purpose: Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Richmond campus) and BCIT (Aerospace Technology Campus) — already listed under Surrey and Burnaby. Fairchild Group — its own site now gives its headquarters in Vancouver. UniUni — press releases are datelined Vancouver and its site does not name Richmond. Sage Software Canada (Richmond ED cites a [address omitted]
  • robots.txt read as its own request before any other request to each host (redirect targets included); User-Agent ResearchUpon-employers/1.0 on every request.
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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.