Premium, Naturally Leavened GA Pizza Now
Available for Ordering and Gifting
Fast-Growing Omnichannel Brand Marks First
Expansion Outside of Ontario
VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 1, 2021 /CNW/ - General Assembly Holdings
Limited (the "Company" or "GA Pizza") (TSXV:
GA), an innovative, premium consumer packaged goods ("CPG")
brand dedicated to making delicious pizzas available to everyone,
everywhere, is excited to bring its popular and unique
direct-to-consumer ("DTC") frozen pizza offerings to
the hungry folks of Vancouver—including their popular pizza
subscriptions, a 'buy it once' option and a pizza gifting
service—with free delivery site-wide until January 4, 2022.
Starting Wednesday, December 1,
pizza-lovers in Abbotsford,
Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, Maple
Ridge, New Westminster,
North Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey, Vancouver and West
Vancouver will be able to treat themselves and their loved
ones to the taste and convenience of GA Pizza's freshly frozen
artisanal pizzas from gapizza.com.
"My time living in Vancouver
taught me how much the city loves good food—Vancouverites
are discerning foodies who demand quality and convenience. That's
why the city was a no-brainer for our first outpost outside of
Ontario," said Ali Khan Lalani, GA Pizza's Founder
and CEO. "Our goal is to make delicious pizzas available to
everyone, everywhere, and we are so excited to bring our elevated
frozen pizza experience to the west coast."
General Assembly's naturally-leavened pies are Chef-imagined
with every foodie in mind. Each pizza is par-baked and flash-frozen
using a proprietary process developed in the brand's flagship
restaurant, which means an expertly cooked pizza can be on a dinner
plate seven minutes after it's pulled from a freezer. And each
pizza is made with premium ingredients, which means they taste as
delicious as anything on offer at a favourite neighbourhood
joint.
GA Pizza's DTC delivery model brings pizza right to customers'
doors on a date of their choosing. Each 10-inch pizza is tidily
packaged and frozen ice-cold, minimizing environmental footprint
while respecting the freezer space of even the tiniest False Creek
condo.
With eight premium pizzas available—75% of which are plant-based
or meat-free—the GA Pizza experience is meant to complement and
elevate the lives of quality-conscious, busy Vancouverites.
- Has today's epic blast up the Grind worn you out? There's a
pizza for that.
- Need to feed your hungry family after a full day shredding the
slopes? There's a pizza for that.
- Does planning dinner with your partner seem impossible after
yet another day of back-to-back Zooms? There's a pizza for
that.
- Looking to fill the freezer of a new mom? A hungry student?
That one impossible-to-buy-for person on your holiday gift list?
There's a pizza for that.
GA Pizza Offering
Visit gapizza.com and enter your
postal code to start your order.
Pizza Subscription Boxes
Choose from GA Pizza's eight
signature pizzas. Stacks of six, eight or 10 pizzas delivered every
four, six or eight weeks. From $65.
Receive free shipping and 10% off all new orders for the
holidays, valid until January 4,
2022.
6-stack, $65.94
8-stack, $87.92
10-stack, $109.90
One Time Purchase: Build a Box
Choose from GA Pizza's eight signature pizzas. One-time purchase
option for stacks of six, eight or 10 pizzas. From $68. Receive free shipping and 10% off all new
orders for the holidays, valid until January
4, 2022.
Chef's Stacks
Choose from a selection of curated boxes
for quick check-out. From $68.
Receive free shipping and 10% off all new orders for the
holidays, valid until January 4,
2022.
GA Pizza Gifting
Designed to be simple and
fun—gift-givers can purchase boxes of four or eight pizzas and
choose when to notify the recipient with a personalized virtual GA
Pizza Stack Card. From $49. Free
shipping.
The GA Pizza Club frozen pizza subscription service first
launched in Toronto in
September 2020, the first step in the
company's evolution from a premium fast-casual restaurant in
downtown Toronto into an
omnichannel CPG brand. Since then, GA Pizza has successfully
expanded its DTC offering to markets across Ontario, supported by fresh branding, new
product offerings, and increased production capabilities.
Today's launch represents GA Pizza's first expansion outside of
its home province, with the direct-to-consumer launch being phase
one of a larger expansion strategy—grocery sales, facilitated by a
newly announced partnership with leading distributor UNFI, will
follow in the months ahead.
"Our company's incredible growth in Ontario, in such a short period of time, shows
how eager Canadian pizza-lovers are to embrace our product," said
Ali Khan Lalani. "We're firing on
all cylinders to meet that demand. And we're ready to fill the
freezers of Vancouver and the
Lower Mainland."
About GA Pizza
GA Pizza began its life as a
fast-casual pizza restaurant in the heart of Toronto. Four years later, we also offer a
freezer-to-table consumer packaged goods line and a revolutionary
direct-to-consumer eCommerce experience—not to mention a pizza box
with more than one pizza in it. Our ambition? Make delicious pizzas
available to everyone, everywhere. We're always working to take
pizza to new heights—from showing the world that better pizza is
possible, to finding new spaces and places to deliver unrivaled
pizza experiences. Find us in your freezer or visit gapizza.com for
more information.
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SOURCE General Assembly Holdings Limited