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Coghlan's

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Manitoba

Winnipeg family-owned camping accessories brand founded in 1959 by Norm Coghlan, making camp kitchen, lighting, and survival gear largely through overseas suppliers with some Winnipeg-made items.

Winnipeg, MB CA · coghlans.com

Private, family-owned Winnipeg camp gear maker in business since 1959, still run by Coghlan and Stevens family members. Most of its roughly 450 SKUs are produced by third-party suppliers in Asia, with a Canadian corroborating directory noting some items made in Canada; no US or other foreign ownership stake was found.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Coghlan's own careers page describes it as "a family-owned and operated camping accessory brand" headquartered in Winnipeg, and its Wikipedia entry (press-grade, corroborating only) names founder Norm Coghlan and current family leadership (CEO Rob Coghlan, President Jeff Stevens, COO Jill Stevens) with no outside investor mentioned. A Corporations Canada federal search for "Coghlan's" returned zero results, consistent with a provincial (Manitoba) incorporation rather than a federal or foreign one; the Manitoba Companies Office was not checked, since it is not on the confirmed-reachable fetch list.

Manufacturing

36.0 reported

CA 20% · other 80%

Coghlan's Bill S-211 forced/child labour report states its main labour risk sits with "third-party suppliers in higher-risk geographical regions" and describes third-party BSCI social-compliance audits typical of Asian factories, without naming countries directly. The CANADA List directory corroborates a China/Canada manufacturing split, noting the company is "Canadian-owned, but many products (e.g., coils) are manufactured abroad; some items are made in Canada." The exact 80/20 split is this reviewer's estimate from that description, not a published figure.

  • Coghlan's Ltd. Bill S-211 - 2026 Report · filing “our most significant risk of forced and child labor arises from our third-party suppliers in higher-risk geographical regions”
  • The CANADA List · directory “Canadian-owned, but many products (e.g., coils) are manufactured abroad. Some items are made in Canada.”
  • Our Materials - Coghlan's · the vendor's own site “we've successfully built partnerships with suppliers that can produce products for us using post-consumer recycled plastic”

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Coghlan's careers page names only its Winnipeg headquarters and describes "a small yet mighty team" with no other office or distribution site mentioned, so this single-site business is scored 100% Canadian for people. Wikipedia notes Coghlan's acquired McNett (Bellingham, WA) in 2015, but that business trades under the separate GearAid brand and is out of scope for this Coghlan's-branded card.

  • Careers - Coghlan's · the vendor's own site “121 Irene St. Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 4C7, Canada”
  • Coghlan's - Wikipedia · press “In 2015, Coghlan's acquired McNett... now marketed under the GearAid brand.”

Inputs

32.0 inferred

CA 15% · other 85%

No page named a country of origin for materials; the materials page describes recycled and post-industrial plastic and wheat-straw bio-fill sourced from unnamed supplier partnerships. Since Coghlan's plastic and metal camp gear is manufactured mostly through the same overseas third-party suppliers described in the S-211 report, inputs are assumed to track the manufacturing split rather than being sourced separately.

  • Our Materials - Coghlan's · the vendor's own site “Beginning in 2022, Coghlan's developed certain plastic products incorporating wheat straw bio-fill to reduce virgin plastic usage.”

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