Matt & Nat

Corporations Canada lists Via Vegan Ltd. (Via Vegan Ltee), the legal entity behind Matt & Nat, as an active federal corporation with its registered office in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Manmohan Singh Kohli as its sole director, and Kohli as the only individual with significant control, holding 25 to 50 percent of shares directly since 2018; it is filed as a non-distributing corporation with 50 or fewer shareholders. Press interviews corroborate that Kohli became a partner in 2000 and sole owner after co-founder Inder Bedi left in 2013. The Quebec business registry (REQ) could not be checked directly; it is bot-walled to fetches.

• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada · registry record “Via Vegan Ltee Via Vegan Ltd. Status: Active Corporation number: 1086493-5”
• Federal corporation information - 1086493-5 - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada · registry record “This individual holds: At least 25% and up to 50% of the shares Start date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2018-07-01”
• Vegan accessories maker has success in the bag · press “The 37-year-old founder and co-president of Montreal-based Via Vegan Ltd., designer of Matt & Nat”

Co-founder Manny Kohli has said the company found a Hong Kong factory in the early 2000s that it still uses, and an independent ethical-fashion review reports the bags are made in small factories in China; the vendor's own materials page separately names Italy for the Studio 901 Uppeal apple-leather collection. The vendor's transparency page describes factory audits and one SA8000-certified facility without naming a country, so the China and Hong Kong majority against the small Italian line is a product-line estimate rather than a published breakdown.

• Matt & Nat's CEO Manny Kohli on growing a successful vegan leather empire · press “We found an amazing factory in Hong Kong that we still work with them today.”
• How Ethical Is Matt and Nat? · press “Its products are made in small factories in China, a high-risk country for poor labour conditions.”
• Our Materials | Matt & Nat Canada · the vendor's own site “Studio 901 - UPPEAL™ A vegan material, made in Italy, crafted from a high percentage of apple waste from the apple juice industry.”
• Transparency | Matt & Nat Canada · the vendor's own site “Our CEO visits each factory 2-3 times a year and makes it a point to build strong bonds with the factory owners”

The corporate registry gives a Saint-Laurent, Quebec registered office, the materials page says the collections are designed by the team in Montreal, and a 2021 interview has Kohli's three sons running the company's Montreal-based IT and e-commerce, retail operations, and warehouse teams. The brand also operates two of its own outlet stores in the Montreal area (Laval and Brossard, QC); no employee count or office outside Quebec is published.

• Federal corporation information - 1086493-5 - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada · registry record “Registered office address 820 Rue Deslauriers Saint-Laurent QC H4N 1X1 Canada”
• Our Materials | Matt & Nat Canada · the vendor's own site “Our collections are all designed by our close-knit team in Montreal, Quebec.”
• Matt & Nat's CEO Manny Kohli on growing a successful vegan leather empire · press “Paul, 37, who manages IT and e-commerce, Tarun, 31, who is the retail operations manager, and Harman, 26, Matt & Nat's warehouse manager.”
• Our Stores | Matt & Nat Canada · the vendor's own site “CF Carrefour Laval 3003 Boulevard Le Carrefour, Unit #T027 Laval, QC”

Outer materials are PU and recycled polyester blends produced at the same Chinese and Hong Kong factories as final assembly, plus an Italian apple-waste material used for the Uppeal-based Studio 901 line; linings have been 100 percent recycled plastic bottles since 2007 without a published country of origin. No source gives a separate country breakdown for raw materials, so the mix follows the manufacturing split as an estimate.

• Our Materials | Matt & Nat Canada · the vendor's own site “A variety of high quality vegan materials are used in the creation of our products.”
• Our Story | Matt & Nat Canada · the vendor's own site “Since 2007, we have been committed to using linings made solely of 100% recycled plastic bottles.”