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BonLook

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Quebec

Prescription glasses and sunglasses designed in Montreal, owned by Calgary's FYidoctors/FYihealth Group, sold direct and through BonLook's own stores across Canada.

Montreal, QC CA · www.bonlook.com

Montreal-founded prescription eyewear and sunglasses brand, designed in-house and sold direct and through its own stores across Canada. Acquired in 2021 by Calgary's FYidoctors/FYihealth Group, which remains majority owned by its founding optometrists and management alongside a minority stake held by US private equity firm L Catterton since 2020. Frames are produced by unnamed overseas manufacturers, and the acetate is sourced from an Italian supplier.

Factors

Ownership

74.0 reported

CA 80% · US 20%

BonLook Inc. and BonLook Optique Inc. are both registered federally at FYidoctors' Calgary, AB head office, with directors overlapping FYidoctors leadership, confirming FYidoctors/FYihealth Group's November 2021 acquisition of BonLook from Walter Capital Partners. FYidoctors management and optometrist shareholders retain a significant equity interest per the company's own 2020 announcement, alongside an undisclosed minority stake held by L Catterton, a US private equity firm, since March 2020. The 80/20 Canada/US split is an estimate since neither company discloses exact ownership percentages.

Manufacturing

20.0 inferred

other 100%

BonLook's own design page says only that glasses are 'produced and assembled by world-leading glasses and lens manufacturers,' without naming a country, factory, or region. No Canadian, US, or EU production is claimed anywhere on the site, and eyewear manufacturing is heavily concentrated in Asia industry-wide, so manufacturing is allocated entirely to OTHER as a working estimate; the specific country or countries could not be verified.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

BonLook's design studio and head office are in Montreal, and its careers page describes over 50 eye care professionals across 34 stores, all listed in Canadian cities from Quebec to British Columbia. The site mentions serving US customers but no US staff or office.

  • Careers · the vendor's own site “Located a stone's throw from well-known Montreal landmarks like the Atwater Market and Lachine Canal.”
  • Stores · the vendor's own site

Inputs

35.0 reported

EU 50% · other 50%

BonLook's own blog states it sources all its acetate, the primary frame material, from Mazzucchelli, an Italian manufacturer. Metal hardware and lenses are not documented by country; since final assembly happens overseas (see manufacturing), those inputs are assumed to follow the same non-EU, non-Canadian supply chain. The 50/50 split weights only the confirmed acetate share and is otherwise an estimate.

  • Material world – the acetate edit · the vendor's own site “At BonLook, we source all our acetate from Mazzucchelli, a renowned Italian company that's been in operation since 1849, overseen by six generations of the same family.”

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