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DonaBona Cards

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Alberta

Greeting cards featuring Canadian artists and photographers, founded and run by Sharon Krushel from Peace River, Alberta, and printed in Edmonton by Elite Lithographers.

Peace River, AB CA · donabonacards.com

DonaBona Cards is a one-person Canadian greeting card company based in Peace River, Alberta, founded by photographer and designer Sharon Krushel to showcase Canadian artists. Cards are printed in Edmonton by Elite Lithographers, and the business sells direct online plus through a small network of Alberta and BC galleries, gift shops, and one grocery banner, Freson Bros.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

DonaBona Cards is described on its own site as the work of founder Sharon Krushel, run from Peace River, Alberta, with no mention of investors or a parent company. The federal Corporations Canada search returns zero results for the name, consistent with a sole proprietorship or a provincial registration rather than a federal corporation; no further registry check was possible from here.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's home page states the cards are printed in Edmonton by Elite Lithographers, a commercial printer confirmed on its own site to be based in Edmonton, Alberta. No other production site is named.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

DonaBona Cards is a single-founder business operated from a Peace River, Alberta address; no employees or other locations are named on the site.

Inputs

53.0 inferred

CA 60% · other 10% · US 30%

Neither donabonacards.com nor its Edmonton printer Elite Lithographers discloses where card stock or paper comes from. The split assumes a small Canadian commercial printer sources most stock from Canadian and US paper distributors, weighted toward Canada; this is an estimate, not a published figure, and the paper's country of origin could not be verified.

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