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Custom Leather Canada

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Leather belts and suspenders manufacturer since 1949, running a 70,000 sq ft Kitchener, Ontario facility that both makes belts domestically and imports belts under licensed US fashion brands.

Kitchener, ON CA · www.customleather.com

A Kitchener, Ontario belt and suspenders manufacturer operating since 1949 that makes its own-brand and several licensed-brand lines in its Canadian facility, while also importing other licensed lines such as Silver Jeans Co. that do not carry its Made in Canada tag.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 inferred

CA 100%

The vendor's own pages describe a single, long-running Kitchener operation since 1949 with no mention of a parent company or investor, and no press or registry evidence of a non-Canadian acquisition turned up. Corporations Canada's federal registry returned zero results for the name, which usually means an Ontario provincial incorporation; the Ontario Business Registry was not checked (it requires an interactive session), and this session's web search budget was exhausted before ownership news could be searched, so this mix is best judgment rather than a confirmed independent-ownership finding.

Manufacturing

53.0 reported

CA 60% · other 10% · US 30%

The vendor states its main business is 'the manufacture and import of men's and women's belts', sold under its own brands, private label, and licensed brands including Silver Jeans Co., Bosca, and Vince Camuto. Its own Made in Canada collection lists 67 of the store's 168 belt listings as Kitchener-made, and every Nick Graham, Vince Camuto, and UntuckIt product in the catalog appears in that Made in Canada set, but none of the 41 Silver Jeans Co. products do, so that licensed line is treated as imported. The exact CA/US/OTHER split for the imported lines is an estimate from catalog counts, not a disclosed revenue or unit share, and the country where the imported product is actually made (versus where the license originates) is not stated on the site.

  • About Custom Leather Canada - 77 Years of Canadian Craftsmanship Since 1949 · the vendor's own site “Our main business involves the manufacture and import of men's and women's belts, which we ship to customers throughout Canada and the United States. Our belts are sold under our own brands, our customers' private labels, as well as Silver Jeans Co, Bosca, Vince Camuto, and other licensed brands.”
  • Made in Canada · the vendor's own site “Handcrafted in Kitchener, Ontario from premium leathers by Custom Leather Canada—proudly Canadian-made since 1949. 67 products”
  • Silver Jeans Co. · the vendor's own site “41 products”
  • Shop All · the vendor's own site “168 products”

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The company describes a single 70,000 square-foot manufacturing and head office facility in Kitchener, Ontario, with no other site or division location mentioned other than sibling brands (Grizzly Fitness, Grizzly Hunting) that also operate out of the same North American base; treated as single-site for staffing.

Inputs

46.0 reported

CA 20% · EU 50% · other 20% · US 10%

The vendor repeatedly names Italian leather as its main material ('Carefully sourced Italian and full-grain leathers'; product names like 'Italian Full-Grain Leather Belt' and 'Italian Nubuk Leather'), so leather inputs are weighted to the EU. Hardware (buckles, fittings) and any imported-line materials are not itemized, so the remaining split across CA, US, and OTHER is this reviewer's estimate rather than a disclosed figure.

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