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Ecojot

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Toronto family business making designer journals, planners, and sketchbooks from 100% post-consumer recycled paper, manufactured entirely at its own Toronto facility.

Toronto, ON CA · ecojot.com

Ecojot is a Toronto family business founded in 2007 by siblings Mark and Carolyn Gavin, making designer journals and planners from 100% post-consumer recycled paper sourced from a Quebec mill and manufactured entirely at its own Toronto facility.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Ecojot's own about page describes it as a family business founded in 2007 by siblings Mark and Carolyn Gavin, with Carolyn's husband Derek also involved, and names no outside investor or parent. Corporations Canada's federal registry returned zero results for Ecojot, which usually means the entity is registered provincially in Ontario; that provincial registry could not be checked directly.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's home page states products are all made in Canada, and its about page says Derek Gavin runs production in-house; no other manufacturing site is mentioned anywhere on the site.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Ecojot is a single-site, family-run operation headquartered and producing in Toronto; the vendor's own pages describe no offices or staff outside Canada.

  • ABOUT US – ecojotstore · the vendor's own site “Carolyn is the principal designer and creative director. Mark handles sales and marketing. Derek, Carolyn's husband, runs production.”

Inputs

74.0 reported

CA 80% · US 20%

Ecojot's about page says its paper comes entirely from old waste paper at the Cascades mill in Quebec, a named Canadian mill, but boards are sourced from unspecified 'suppliers across North America.' The mix estimates a majority Canadian share for the primary material (paper) with the remainder allocated to the US for the unspecified board sourcing; the exact split is not published.

  • ABOUT US – ecojotstore · the vendor's own site “Paper comes entirely from old waste paper in the award-winning Cascades mill in Quebec, Canada.”

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