Watson Gloves

Chairman and CEO Martin Moore says three generations of his family have led the company, calling it a family-owned business, and the legal entity is John Watson Ltd, dba Watson Gloves. Corporations Canada returned no federal match for John Watson Ltd, consistent with a BC provincial incorporation; the BC Registry itself was not checked. No acquisition, outside investor, or parent company was found.

• OUR STORY - Watson Gloves · the vendor's own site “With three generations of Moore leadership at Watson Gloves over the past 100 years, we are a great example of a family-owned business”
• About Us - Watson Gloves · the vendor's own site “John Watson Ltd, dba Watson Gloves. All Rights Reserved.”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada · registry record “4 results were found, 4 returned.”

The vendor's own About page says gloves are either sourced 'from the world's finest manufacturers' abroad or handcrafted in its local Burnaby factory, and it runs a distinct Made-in-Canada line among a catalogue of roughly 2,000 styles, so we treat domestic production as the minority share. U.S. customs shipment records for John Watson Ltd list leather glove suppliers such as Elite Leather Creations and JC Gauntlet Ltd, corroborating overseas sourcing; the exact split is our estimate since no percentage is published.

• About Us - Watson Gloves · the vendor's own site “source our gloves from the world's finest manufacturers or handcraft them in our local factory”
• OUR STORY - Watson Gloves · the vendor's own site “A photo of our local Vancouver, BC factory circa 1940's”
• John Watson Ltd. Dba Watson Gloves, 7955 NORTH FRASER WAY BURNABY BC V5J 0A4 CANADA BURNABY BCV5J 0A4 CA | Buyer Report — Panjiva · source “763 U.S. shipments available for John Watson Ltd. Dba Watson Gloves”

The contact page lists a Burnaby, BC head office (also the site of the factory) and a Calgary, AB office against a single U.S. office in Mesa, Arizona. Most staff, including the Burnaby manufacturing floor, are in Canada; no employee headcount by location is published.

• Contact Us - Watson Gloves · the vendor's own site “BURNABY 7955 North Fraser Way, Burnaby, BC, V5J 0A4”

No page discloses where leather, nitrile, or knit materials come from. We infer a mostly non-domestic input mix from the manufacturing footprint, since the majority of styles are made by overseas partners, while the Burnaby factory's own line draws on some local inputs alongside imported leather typical of the glove trade. The sustainability page also describes turning recycled plastic bottles (rPET) into yarn without naming a country.

• Corporate Social Responsibility - Watson Gloves · the vendor's own site “post consumer plastic water bottles (rPet) from landfills by using them in our gloves”