Major employers in Welland

9 employers, 3 of them head offices: 1 worldwide, 0 national and 2 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

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Employers9
Worldwide HQ1
National HQ0
Regional HQ2
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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
BCM Insurance (Bertie and Clinton Mutual Insurance Company)Finance and insurance — mutual property and casualty insurerWorldwide HQcompany head office5822025Welland, OntarioCareers →
Niagara Catholic District School BoardEducation — Catholic school boardRegional HQNiagara region (Catholic school board head office)—Welland, OntarioCareers →
Welland Hydro (Welland Hydro-Electric System Corp.)Utilities — electric power distributionRegional HQlocal electricity distributor head office—Welland, OntarioCareers →
City of WellandPublic administration — municipalMajor site—Welland, OntarioCareers →
Family and Children's Services Niagara — Welland officeSocial services — child welfarepart of Family and Children's Services NiagaraMajor site—St. Catharines, OntarioCareers →
Hospice Niagara — WellandHealth care — palliative / hospice carepart of Hospice NiagaraMajor site—Niagara region, OntarioCareers →
Niagara College — Welland CampusEducation — collegepart of Niagara College CanadaMajor site—Niagara region, OntarioCareers →
Niagara Health — Welland HospitalHealth care — hospitalpart of Niagara HealthMajor site—Niagara region, OntarioCareers →
Niagara Regional Police Service — 3 District (Welland & Pelham)Public safety — regional policepart of Niagara Regional Police ServiceMajor site—Niagara Falls, OntarioCareers →
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Notes on this record

  • Headcounts in the Niagara Employment Inventory 2025 (niagaracanada.com) are region-wide; the two Welland-headquartered public employers (Niagara Catholic DSB, Niagara College) are recorded as employeesWorldwide with the note.
  • Canadian Tire Financial Services (963 in the Niagara Employment Inventory 2025, 'Finance and insurance') has a large Welland operation, but ctfs.com renders its pages by script with no readable location text and careers.canadiantire.ca returned HTTP 403 — no row.
  • Lakeside Steel / Zekelman Industries pipe plant (Welland, per Wikipedia lead): zekelman.com locations page renders by script — not confirmed, no row. Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (npca.ca, careers at npca.ca/about/careers) — head-office location not shown on the pages read, so no row.
  • No venture-funded software or tech company headquartered in Welland 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.