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Frank Lyman Design

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Quebec

Family-owned women's apparel house making dresses, tops, pants, and denim; designed and 95% manufactured at its own Greater Montreal facility and sold through independent boutiques in 65+ countries.

Pointe-Claire, QC CA · www.franklyman.com

Montreal-area women's apparel brand founded by Frank Lyman in 2001, still controlled by the Lyman family, that designs and sews 95% of its collections at its own Pointe-Claire, Quebec facility and sells through independent boutiques worldwide rather than its own storefront.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 verified

CA 100%

Corporations Canada's federal registry shows Frank Lyman Design Inc. (corporation number 388833-9) as an active corporation governed by the Canada Business Corporations Act since 2001-04-23, registered office at 2500 boul. Des Sources, Pointe-Claire, QC. Its individuals-with-significant-control register lists three people, each holding 25 to 50 percent indirectly and all with Quebec addresses: Stephanie Lyman, Carolle Lyman, and Patrick Lyman, matching the company's own leadership page (Stephanie Lyman as President, Patrick Lyman as VP Business Development). This is family ownership concentrated in Canada with no foreign shareholder disclosed.

Manufacturing

96.0 reported

CA 95% · other 5%

The careers page states plainly: "At Frank Lyman, 95% of our fashion is made in Canada," produced from the company's 125,000-square-foot head office in the Montreal area, which the about page says handles "the creation of its collections and its production." The remaining 5% is not attributed to a country, so it is allocated to OTHER as the conservative default rather than assumed to be EU or US.

People

92.0 inferred

CA 90% · other 10%

The company describes a single production and design campus in the Montreal area employing "hundreds of local fashion specialists and tradespeople," which is where the bulk of headcount sits. It also says it maintains unspecified satellite offices and showrooms in other countries to serve its 65+ country boutique network; without a headcount for those offices this card estimates a small non-Canada share rather than treating the business as single-site.

Inputs

23.0 inferred

CA 10% · other 80% · US 10%

Neither the about, careers, nor products pages name a fabric mill or textile country of origin, and the store locator and news pages add nothing on inputs. Canada's own textile-milling base for woven and knit apparel fabric is small relative to its cut-and-sew sector, so this card infers that most fabric is imported, mainly from outside the CA/EU/US buckets, with a minority domestic or US share; this is a judgment call, not a documented figure, and is the one factor this card could not verify.

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