6 BUSINESS ELITE CANADA | JANUARY 2019
to graduate from The Chocolate Capi-
tal of Ontario, to The Cannabis Capital
of Canada.
Tweed Headquarters
The $250million investment by Tweed,
that started out as a 200,000 square
foot facility has expanded beyond its
quarters to 1 million square feet, and
the promise of 150 employees has
ballooned to 1,000 in a few short years.
Construction is at full tilt in the town,
for both residential and commercial
developments. The company—offi-
cially renamed to Canopy Growth
Corp.—has become the largest
publicly-traded cannabis producers
in the world, and was one of the best
performers on the TSX in 2017, with
returns of more than 250 percent. As
the epicentre of the cannabis indus-
try in the first G7 nation to legalize,
Tweed Main Entrance
