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Bolero Eyewear

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Ontario

Direct-to-consumer sunglasses, readers and blue-light glasses shipped from an Ontario warehouse; began as a 1972 Canadian eyewear distributor, relaunched under new sole ownership in 2025.

Richmond Hill, ON CA · boleroeyewear.com

Bolero Eyewear is a direct-to-consumer sunglasses, reader and blue-light-glasses brand run from Richmond Hill, Ontario, tracing to a Canadian eyewear distributor founded in 1972 and taken over by a new sole owner in 2025. Frames are designed in Canada but manufactured overseas at contract factories in Taiwan and China, and the business sells only through its own Shopify storefront.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 verified

CA 100%

Corporations Canada's federal registry lists V.P.I. Canada Limited (incorporated 1977, matching the site's 1972 founding story) with a sole director, Parker Coulter, at the same 50 Mural Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario address the vendor's own contact and privacy pages give as its operating entity and mailing address. The registry also shows the corporation as inactive, discontinued 2025-07-11 for overdue annual filings, which was not disclosed by the vendor and could not be resolved to a successor entity via a provincial registry check.

  • Federal corporation information - 063359-3 - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada · registry record “V.P.I. CANADA LIMITED Status: Inactive - Discontinued on 2025-07-11 ... Governing legislation: Canada Business Corporations Act - 1977-01-31 ... Parker Coulter 50 Mural Street Unit 7 Richmond Hill ON L4B 1E4 Canada”
  • Privacy policy · the vendor's own site “contact us at V.P.I. Canada Limited c/o Boléro Eyewear, 50 Mural Street, Unit 7, Richmond Hill ON L4B 1E4, Canada”
  • About Boléro Eyewear · the vendor's own site “In a quick 30-day close, I took over Boléro Eyewear, determined to build something better.”

Manufacturing

20.0 reported

other 100%

The vendor's own FAQ states frames are designed in Canada but manufactured overseas at factories in Taiwan and China, describing them as the same factories used by major designer brands. No split between the two countries or by product line is published, so both are folded into OTHER as a single mix.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's contact page and FAQ describe a single Richmond Hill, Ontario mailing address and warehouse, with orders shipping from there for both Canadian and U.S. customers; the federal registry corroborates a sole director at the same address and no other office or staff location is mentioned anywhere on the site.

  • Contact Boléro Eyewear · the vendor's own site “Mailing Address V.P.I. Canada Limited 50 Mural Street, Unit 7 Richmond Hill, ON L4B 1E4 Canada”
  • Boléro Eyewear Frequently Asked Questions · the vendor's own site “Your order ships within Canada from our Ontario warehouse, so there are no import duties or customs charges.”

Inputs

20.0 inferred

other 100%

The vendor names Taiwan and China as the manufacturing locations for its frames and lenses; it does not separately disclose where raw materials such as acetate, metal, and polycarbonate are sourced, so inputs are assumed to follow manufacturing into the same overseas supply chain. The storefront runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, as the vendor's only sales channel, which is not treated as a foreign-control risk.

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