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Venque

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Ontario

Travel and laptop backpacks, totes, slings and briefcases designed in Toronto, sold direct and through a small number of boutique stockists worldwide.

Toronto, ON CA · www.venque.com

Toronto travel and laptop bag brand founded in 2013 by two Canadian designers, structured as a federally incorporated Canadian company. Bags are designed in Toronto but the site discloses no manufacturing country, and language about third-party factory audits points to contracted overseas production rather than in-house Canadian manufacturing.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 verified

CA 100%

Corporations Canada's federal registry shows Venque Craft Co. Ltd. (corporation number 843188-4) as an active federal corporation incorporated February 7, 2013, with its sole listed director, Wen Cui, at a Toronto-area (North York) address. No public listing, foreign parent, or minority foreign stake was found anywhere else.

Manufacturing

20.0 inferred

other 100%

No page on the site names a country of manufacture. The Our Story page instead describes working with third-party auditors to evaluate fair wages, labour conditions, and working hours at production partners, language typical of contracted overseas manufacturing rather than in-house or domestic production. With no Canadian, US, or EU manufacturing claim found anywhere, this card allocates manufacturing entirely to OTHER as an estimate rather than a confirmed country breakdown.

  • Our Story · the vendor's own site “third-party auditors to evaluate factors like fair wages, labor conditions, reasonable working hours, and a safe working environment”

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Venque describes itself as "Born in Canada," founded by two Canadian fashion-industry veterans who are named as the company's principals, with the registered office and terms-of-service address both in Toronto. No second office, design studio, or overseas staff presence is disclosed, so this is treated as a single-site Canadian business.

  • Our Story · the vendor's own site “Born in Canada”
  • Terms of Service · the vendor's own site “150 Milner Ave Toronto Alberta CA M1S 3R3”

Inputs

35.0 reported

EU 50% · other 50%

The Our Story page states materials are sourced "from Germany to Japan." No other input country is named and no revenue-weighted breakdown is published, so this card splits the mix evenly between EU (Germany) and OTHER (Japan) as an estimate.

  • Our Story · the vendor's own site “sourced the finest materials from Germany to Japan”

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