Crown Royal closing down Ontario plant, shifting some operations to U.S.

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Spirits maker Diageo will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it shifts some bottling volume to the U.S., the company announced on Thursday.

The facility, which bottles Crown Royal products, will close in February in a move aimed at improving its North American supply chain. Bottling at the Amherstburg facility intended for the U.S. market would be shifting stateside, while bottling for Canadian consumers would move to its Valleyfield, Quebec location.

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The decision by major alcohol distributor Diageo to shutter its Amherstburg Crown Royal bottling plant has ignited calls for Ontario to pull the brand from LCBO shelves.

After talks with community members and union leaders, Lisa Gretzky, NDP MPP for Windsor West, is calling on the government to pull the whisky brand.

“We’re not going to stand by and let you just try and squeeze a little more money out for those wealthy shareholders at the risk of 200 people in our community. We will take the step of pulling Crown Royal off the shelves at the LCBO,” Gretzky told CTV News.

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However, a government-led boycott could create more turmoil rather than continued business in the province, warned Sylvain Charlebois, a visiting scholar in food policy and distribution at McGill University.

Ontario is already without American booze after Ford ordered it out of the LCBO in the spring in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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