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Cocotte Equipement

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Quebec

Messenger bags and technical bags designed and manufactured by a small team in the same Montreal shop since 1993.

Montreal, QC CA · cocotte-equip.com

Cocotte Equipement is a small, independent Montreal maker of messenger and cycling bags, incorporated in Quebec since 2007 and designing and manufacturing every bag itself since 1993. Materials come mostly from named US and overseas hardware brands, with one Quebec webbing supplier, despite the vendor's own claim of prioritizing regional suppliers.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's own pages describe a small, self-run team operating from one Montreal address since 1993 with no mention of investors or a parent. A Quebec business registry mirror shows the operating entity, Cocotte Equipement Inc., as a Quebec provincial corporation (NEQ 1164842016) incorporated in 2007 with 1 to 5 employees and no shareholder agreement on file, and Corporations Canada's federal registry returns no result for the name. The Registraire des entreprises du Quebec itself could not be checked directly (bot-walled), and no acquisition or private-equity coverage turned up in search.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor states every bag is made in its own Montreal shop, unchanged since the company started in 1993, and lists no contract manufacturers elsewhere.

  • Cocotte Équipement · the vendor's own site “Made in the same small Montreal design shop as when we first started back in 1993”

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor operates from a single Montreal address with a small in-house team that both designs and manufactures; the Quebec registry mirror lists 1 to 5 employees, consistent with a single-site business.

Inputs

14.2 inferred

CA 17% · EU 17% · other 17% · US 49%

The vendor's suppliers page names six material and hardware brands used across its bags (A&E, Belt-Tech, Cordura, Duraflex, YKK, Zotefoams) and claims it prioritizes regional suppliers, but only one of the six, webbing maker Belt-Tech, is Quebec-based (Granby, QC); the others are US-headquartered hardware and fabric brands (A&E, Cordura, Duraflex), a UK-based foam maker (Zotefoams), or a Japanese zipper maker (YKK). The mix is estimated by an even split across the six named suppliers, since the vendor does not disclose the volume or cost share of each.

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