Quick answer: the six best co-packing and kitting staffing agencies for holiday gift sets in Brampton for 2026 are Randstad Canada (Mississauga Industrial), Adecco Canada, Trimax Employment, Express Employment Professionals (Brampton), Vertical Staffing Resources (PeopleReady Brampton) and Staff Plus. Job Bank puts the Toronto Region median at $18.70 an hour for packaging line workers and $21.00 for material handlers, so a 25-person crew for five weeks costs about $93,500 in wages before any agency markup. Book by October 30 to finish builds before Black Friday on November 27.

Kitting and co-packing turn loose components into finished retail products: a candle, a tin and a ribbon become a gift set, three snack brands become a variety pack, a promotional display is built and wrapped. The work is labour-intensive, repetitive and strongly seasonal, because the sets that fill store shelves on Black Friday (Friday, November 27, 2026) must be assembled in October and early November. In Brampton, where logistics and manufacturing employers cluster near Highways 407, 410 and 401, that means a short, sharp hiring window starting now.

This guide covers six staffing agencies with a Brampton office or a Mississauga branch next door, based on each agency’s own pages in October 2026. Trimax Employment publishes this blog, so it is included and marked as our company. We did not find seven agencies that could be verified, so the title says six, and we state which facts we could and could not confirm.

Related reading from Trimax: see how Trimax staffs light manufacturing and packaging, our guides to food manufacturing staffing agencies in the GTA and e-commerce fulfilment agencies in Mississauga, and the national warehouse and logistics staffing guide.

What’s in This Guide

• What Kitting and Co-Packing Mean for Staffing
• How We Chose and Checked These Agencies
• The 6 Best Co-Packing and Kitting Staffing Agencies in Brampton
• Side-by-Side Comparison Table
• Toronto Region Wage Data for Packing and Assembly (Job Bank)
• Worked Example: A 25-Person Gift-Set Kitting Crew
• Holiday Gift-Set Staffing Timeline for 2026
• Roles on a Kitting Line and How to Keep Quality High
• How to Choose a Kitting Staffing Agency
• Step-by-Step Checklist
• Talk to Trimax
• Frequently Asked Questions

What Kitting and Co-Packing Mean for Staffing

Truvant, a U.S. contract packager, defines kitting as assembling multiple components into a new finished unit, such as a gift set, variety pack or display, and distinguishes it from pick-and-pack. Buske, another U.S. packager, cites the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute definition of contract packaging as outsourcing the packaging function to a specialized third party and claims seasonal programs can drive volume to three to ten times baseline. Both are vendor claims, not Canadian statistics, and we found no neutral Canadian data on gift-set volume, so treat the multiple as an illustration of how steep the peak can be.

For a labour plan the lesson is simple: a kitting line that runs at 10 workers in September may need 30 in November. Staffing it with an agency means paying for the surge only while it lasts.

How We Chose and Checked These Agencies

We read each agency’s own Brampton or Mississauga page and kept those that publish a local office or service area and light industrial, packaging or assembly roles. We dropped agencies whose sites we could not verify, and we recorded pay only where a page or listing showed it. We did not check licence numbers against the Ministry of Labour register, because its public status page cannot be searched by automated tools. Since July 1, 2024, temporary help agencies must hold a licence and clients may not knowingly use an unlicensed one, so run the check yourself. The order below is not a quality ranking: the two national leaders, Randstad and Adecco, come first, then Trimax (our company), then the rest.

The 6 Best Co-Packing and Kitting Staffing Agencies in Brampton

1. Randstad Canada, Mississauga Industrial branch

Randstad Interim Inc. runs its industrial branch at 6345 Dixie Road, Suite 6 in Mississauga (905-795-1146), per its branch page, which lists temporary and permanent placement, high-volume and project hiring, and flex-to-perm. Roles include forklift operator, electronic assembler, production operator and general labourer. Its Mississauga and Brampton listings in October 2026 showed general labour at $18.00 to $20.00 an hour and a walk-in general labour job fair on October 21, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at this branch. Volume hiring is the draw: a kitting operation needing 40 people for five weeks can use the high-volume service and flex-to-perm option to keep the best performers.

2. Adecco Canada

Adecco has Brampton and Mississauga location pages, but its site blocked automated reading, so we could not verify a street address and we do not state one. Postings we saw on Glassdoor in October 2026 showed warehouse associate and picker-packer roles in Mississauga at $21.00 an hour and general labour pickers in Brampton at $18.40 to $19.00 an hour. Its retail and sales page claims peak-season hiring support. A picker-packer at $21.00 earns $840 for a 40-hour week. The caution: we include Adecco because its postings are visible and consistent, but confirm the office, licence and seasonal capacity directly.

3. Trimax Employment (our company)

Trimax Employment is a Canadian staffing and workforce management company (Ontario THA licence THA-0000002854) that staffs nationally across light manufacturing and packaging, warehousing and logistics, food, retail, hospitality and more, with an office at 805-2425 Matheson Blvd E in Mississauga, just south of Brampton. Packers, assemblers, kit builders, material handlers and line helpers are core roles. The model is modern and fully managed: Trimax Verify worker verification, geofenced digital check-in and check-out, automatic timesheets, integrated payroll, per-worker performance metrics and backup-candidate assignment, and Trimax states a two-hour replacement turnaround for general labour on its agency comparison page. A kitting line where five of 25 workers miss a Monday shift loses 20% of its output, so replacement speed and per-worker metrics matter. Trimax publishes this guide, so request a quote and compare it with the others on the same terms.

4. Express Employment Professionals, Brampton

Express’s Brampton office is at 201 County Court Boulevard, Suite 103 (905-874-9824), locally owned and operated, per its Brampton page. It places office services, light industrial and skilled trades, and its listings included production line worker, machine operator, press operator and skilled yard labour, with material handler and quality control associate roles on its Canadian page. It says it helps clients with seasonal hiring needs and production fluctuations, without a specific programme, and it publishes no licence number. A material handler listing at $20 to $22 an hour means a 40-hour week of $800 to $880 before deductions. The insight: an owner-operated franchise can often move faster on a small kitting crew than a national branch, but ask for the licence number before you sign.

5. Vertical Staffing Resources (PeopleReady Brampton)

The PeopleReady Brampton page, branch 1066, says the location is now owned and operated by Vertical Staffing Resources following the sale of PeopleReady Canada, with an address of Unit 3, Brampton L6W 3E2 and phone 905-459-2666, per the branch page. The page describes on-demand labour and the JobStack app across construction, manufacturing, logistics, retail and hospitality, but does not describe a seasonal programme. Because the branding changed, confirm which name appears on your contract and licence. On-demand staffing is useful for kitting when order volume is unpredictable: a gift-set run that doubles on short notice can be staffed by app rather than by a new request each time.

6. Staff Plus

Staff Plus is an independently owned agency that, on its services page, lists Scarborough, Brampton, Toronto, Durham and Hamilton as service areas and light industrial work that includes general labour, packaging, assembly and manufacturing. It claims over four decades in business, a 90-day guarantee on permanent placements and help with peak periods. We did not find a Brampton street address on its own pages, and a third-party directory address could not be confirmed, so verify the office and the licence before relying on it. The guarantee is on permanent placements, not temporary assignments, so for a six-week kitting surge ask what replacement terms apply to temporary workers.

Side-by-Side Comparison Table

Toronto Region Wage Data for Packing and Assembly (Job Bank)

Job Bank publishes ranges for the Toronto Region, which includes Peel, updated November 19, 2025 from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey. Peel-only figures were not available.

The $2.30 gap between the material-handler median ($21.00) and the packaging median ($18.70) is the premium for forklift or reach-truck skills, worth $92 a week on a 40-hour week.

Worked Example: A 25-Person Gift-Set Kitting Crew

Take 25 packers at the $18.70 median for 40 hours a week over five weeks (October 26 to November 27). That is 25 x $18.70 = $467.50 an hour, $18,700 a week and $93,500 over 200 hours each. At an assumed 20% agency markup, which is an illustration and not a quote, the margin is $18,700 and the total $112,200. Overtime beyond 44 hours a week is paid at 1.5 times the regular rate under the Employment Standards Act. Ask every agency to quote on this basis, with the $17.95 minimum wage as the floor.

Holiday Gift-Set Staffing Timeline for 2026

This timeline is planning guidance, not a published industry schedule.

Roles on a Kitting Line and How to Keep Quality High

A gift-set line is not one job. Pickers pull components, assemblers build the kit, packers close and label it, a quality checker verifies contents against the kit sheet, and material handlers move pallets to shipping. Each role carries a different pay point: from the Job Bank figures above, the packaging median is $18.70 an hour and the material-handler median is $21.00. When you brief an agency, name the roles, not a headcount, because a vendor that sends 25 general labourers for a line that needs three forklift operators will cost you time.

Quality is where seasonal lines fail. A kit that ships missing one component generates a return, and returns are expensive in the weeks after Christmas. Three controls cost little: a one-page kit sheet at every station, a checker on every pallet for the first two days of a new kit, and a daily count of rejects by station so retraining is targeted. Ask the agency whether its workers have done similar light assembly before, and whether the same people will return for the second week, because crew stability raises throughput faster than any incentive scheme.

How to Choose a Kitting Staffing Agency

Check licence and entity. Ask for the licence number and the legal name on your contract, then confirm status on the ministry page.

Know your obligations. The ESA guide says agencies cannot charge workers fees, may charge you a direct-hire fee only within six months of the worker’s first day, and owe one week’s written notice or pay if an assignment expected to last three months or more ends early. Both the agency and the host owe health and safety duties under OHSA, and the host usually provides site-specific training, according to the Ontario guidance.

Test their speed. Ask how many workers they can seat in 72 hours.

Plan a standby bench. Keep 10% extra workers on call for the week of November 23.

Step-by-Step Checklist

Talk to Trimax

Building holiday gift sets or promotional kits? Trimax Employment, a Canadian staffing and workforce management company (Ontario THA licence THA-0000002854), can quote a kitting crew on the basis above. Contact Trimax to staff your holiday kitting line.

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