Dr. Oetker put the city on the path to attracting critical partnerships [Video]

Corporate leaders from Canada and Germany gathered with local dignitaries at Dr. Oetker’s London operation on Nova Court to mark the plant’s 10-year anniversary.

In August 2011, there was another gathering — this one was on the steps of London City Hall as they announced that Dr. Oetker had selected London as the home of its new frozen pizza processing plant, serving a growing Canadian market.

It opened its doors in the fall of 2014 and now employees more than 430 people.

Up to that point, Dr. Oetker had been shipping the pizzas from European facilities to Canada and the United States since the 1960s.

There was no shortage of suitors in the U.S. and Canada, hoping to land the company’s first North American production plant, but the company found its fit in London.

“The big thing about London is, we were working here with a very professional city,” Executive …