Alcohol Warehousing and Distribution in Toronto, Ontario

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We Supply Your Wine, Spirits, and Beer to Toronto Wholesale Customers

Getting listed is the easy part. Staying supplied is what costs you. Your wholesale customers now include grocery, convenience, and licensed retail, and they order small, order often, and order to a lot of addresses. A warehouse that only understands full pallets will hand you service fees and short shipments.

We built our Toronto 3PL alcohol operation around how your customers actually order:

• Cased goods, cased goods on pallets, kegs, and bottles
• Bonded storage with your duty deferred until release
• Excise warehousing for imported and domestic liquor
• Temperature-controlled space that protects vintage wine and premium spirits
• Container destuffing, transloading, and cross-docking
• Door-to-door freight forwarding on your imports, from LCL through full containers, by ocean, air, and ground
• Case and mixed pallet picking built for wholesale customer order profiles
• Delivery across the GTA and throughout Ontario, plus cross-border solutions
• Beverage destruction and reverse logistics for damaged or delisted stock

We hold the licences, run the picks, and get the paperwork right, so your listing keeps performing long after launch week.

Our Repacking Services Enhance Your RTD Product Lines

Pack format closes the sale in Toronto. Grocery wants 12-packs. Convenience wants singles and 4-packs. Your summer promotion needs a variety pack across three of your labels, built and shipped within a month. Send that to an outside co-packer, and you pay the freight, then wait.

We do it in-house, on the same site that stores your inventory, on automated lines run like manufacturing rather than overflow labour. Send bulk cans, tell us the run, and we ship back a finished pack in any of the following formats:

• Branded multi-packs in any count: 4, 8, 12, 15, 24, or 32 cans
• Variety packs spanning three or more of your labels
• Singles and 4-packs sized for convenience programs
• Bulk cans repacked into finished retail cases
• Shrink-wrapped and bundle-wrapped packs
• Retail-ready pallet displays for grocery
• Packs stickered and labelled for Ontario compliance

The lines are SQF certified and every run carries lot-level traceability, which is what your grocery accounts want documented before they accept a display. Your finished packs leave from the building that already holds your stock. No co-packer, no extra freight leg, no three weeks in between.

Why Toronto Alcohol Brands Trust 18 Wheels Warehousing & Trucking

A standard GTA warehouse cannot serve LCBO wholesale customers on your behalf.

If you are an import agent, that decides your shortlist before anyone quotes you a price. Past the authorization, the building still has to do the work your listing depends on.

Here is what our Toronto 3PL operations gives you:

1. LCBO authorization under the Warehousing for Open Listings Program. You clear the one requirement standing between you and agent authorization, with a warehouse that has already been vetted.
2. Bonded, sufferance, and excise licensed. Your duty stays deferred, and your imports clear into the same building that ships them out. No transfer, no second handling charge.
3. Case and mixed pallet picking. Grocery, convenience, and licensee orders get filled exactly as ordered, so you stop absorbing service fees and short shipment credits.
4. 76 loading docks running 24/7. Your receiving is not queued behind everyone else's freight, and a late container does not become a next-day problem.

Ontario is usually a brand's first province, not its only one. When the listing performs and the West opens up, you should not be starting a warehouse search from zero, re-qualifying facilities, or walking a new team through your product data. 18 Wheels moves your inventory into our other buildings, from Toronto through to Vancouver, on the same system and the same processes.

We Help You Enter Toronto And National Markets

Ontario is the largest liquor market in the country, but also one of the most self-contained. Your agent authorization, your supplying source registration, your product data- all of it applies here and nowhere else.

Look west, and you start again with the AGLC in Alberta and the BCLDB in BC, and each one wants a compliant warehouse of its own before it will take your product.

The good news is, if you work with us, you do not have to run that search twice. 18 Wheels is licensed to warehouse and distribute alcohol in Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver, with bonded and excise licences in each one. Here is what the other two provinces look like once you are already with us:

1. Alberta. Our Calgary facility holds your product bonded under AGLC regulation and ships into Alberta's private retail market, with Saskatchewan and Manitoba served off the same floor.
2. British Columbia. We are a Licensed Warehouse Program holder with the BCLDB. Your BC stock sits in our Metro Vancouver warehouses where the LDB can see it and pull from it directly.
3. Imports landing in the west. Product arriving through the Port of Vancouver clears into our Delta facility five minutes from Deltaport, so your western inventory never crosses the country twice to get to a western shelf.

Same company, same inventory system, same people who already know your SKUs. Adding a province takes a receiving address and a listing, not six months of onboarding.

Get A 3PL Agreement Your LCBO Authorization Can Depend On

If you need alcohol warehousing and/or distribution in Ontario, send us your SKU list and your projected volume. We will confirm capacity, quote you, and put the third-party logistics agreement in front of you so your LCBO paperwork can move. Tell us where you are in the process, and we will handle our side of it.

Until that agreement is signed, you cannot be authorized as an agent or registered as a supplying source. Get in touch with us now so your product is not waiting on paperwork while the listing window is open.

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