EQ3
Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Manitoba
Modern living, dining and bedroom furniture retailer; upholstery (sofas, sectionals, chairs, beds) is made at its Winnipeg factory, while case goods, lighting and accessories are largely imported. Part of the family-owned Palliser Furniture group.
Winnipeg, MB CA · www.eq3.com
EQ3 is a Winnipeg furniture retailer and manufacturer within the family-owned Palliser Furniture group. Upholstery, including sofas, sectionals, chairs, ottomans and beds, is made at its Winnipeg headquarters, while dining, storage and other case goods are largely imported. Corporations Canada confirms EQ3 was amalgamated into Palliser Furniture Ltd., which the DeFehr family controls.
Factors
Ownership
100.0 verifiedCA 100%
Corporations Canada shows EQ3 Holdings Ltd. amalgamated into Palliser Furniture Ltd. on 2009-07-01. The current Palliser Furniture Ltd. is an active federal corporation with its registered office in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and its individuals-with-significant-control filing names Arthur DeFehr, of the family that founded Palliser, as holding 25% or more of shares indirectly. No foreign parent or minority stake is documented anywhere.
- Federal corporation information - 417119-5 (EQ3 Holdings Ltd.) · registry record “Status: Inactive - Amalgamated into Palliser Furniture Ltd. on 2009-07-01”
- Federal corporation information - 1792485-2 (Palliser Furniture Ltd.) · registry record “Arthur DeFehr ... Type of interest or control: Owns, controls or directs 25% or more of shares ... This individual holds the shares: Indirectly”
- Palliser Furniture - Wikipedia · press “Palliser Furniture is the parent company of EQ3, a furniture manufacturer and retailer in Canada and parts of the US.”
- The Canada List: EQ3 · directory “Fully Canadian-owned with Canadian manufacturing (Winnipeg); emphasizes local design and production, but does also sell internationally manufactured products”
Manufacturing
55.0 inferredCA 40% · EU 10% · other 50%
EQ3's own site says product design, R&D and upholstery manufacturing take place under one roof at its Winnipeg headquarters, and its Canadian Made collection covers only upholstery lines (sofas, sectionals, chairs, ottomans, beds, accent pillows). The same site says products are not always made in Canada; its dining tables page names a Denmark-origin line (Ease, Close) and leaves most other tables unattributed, and the CANADA List logs manufacturing generally as Canada/International. The 0.4/0.1/0.5 split is this card's estimate from comparing the Canadian Made collection against the wider dining, storage, lighting and EQ3+ catalogue, not a published percentage.
- Who We Are | EQ3 · the vendor's own site “Product design, R&D, and custom upholstery manufacturing takes place under the same roof at our HQ in Winnipeg, Canada. Although our products might not always be made in Canada, they are always made in consideration.”
- Canadian Made Upholstery | EQ3 · the vendor's own site “Product design, research and development, and upholstery manufacturing all collaborate within our Winnipeg, Manitoba headquarters.”
- Dining Tables | EQ3 · the vendor's own site “Bon Expandable Dining Table: Canadian-made quality; Ease and Close tables originating from Denmark”
- The Canada List: EQ3 · directory “Manufacturing (Countries): Canada / International”
People
80.5 inferredCA 85% · US 15%
Design, R&D and upholstery manufacturing are concentrated at EQ3's Winnipeg headquarters. Its own site sitemap lists about 14 Canadian storefronts and outlets (Calgary, Vancouver, two in Winnipeg, Burlington, Ottawa, two in Toronto, two in Montreal, Brossard, Laval, Quebec City, Mont-Royal) against 4 in the United States (Norwalk, San Francisco, New York, Chicago). EQ3 does not publish employee counts by country, so this mix uses store footprint plus the Winnipeg HQ concentration as a proxy.
- EQ3 sitemap.xml · the vendor's own site “shopwithus/eq3-locations/.../winnipeg/eq3-winnipeg ... shopwithus/eq3-locations/.../norwalk/eq3-sono”
- Who We Are | EQ3 · the vendor's own site “Product design, R&D, and custom upholstery manufacturing takes place under the same roof at our HQ in Winnipeg, Canada.”
Inputs
39.5 inferredCA 25% · EU 15% · other 50% · US 10%
EQ3 does not disclose where upholstery materials (fabric, foam, frame stock) or case-goods components come from. This mix follows the manufacturing split: Winnipeg-made upholstery is assumed to draw partly on Canadian and North American inputs, while the imported case goods, lighting and EQ3+ third-party lines are assumed to carry mostly non-Canadian inputs, with a smaller EU share reflecting the Denmark-origin table line.
- Dining Tables | EQ3 · the vendor's own site “Ease and Close tables originating from Denmark”
Where to buy
- Direct · eq3.com 73.5
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- madeinca.ca 2026-09-13