49th Parallel Coffee Roasters

OrgBook BC shows the trade name 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters (FM0440478) is owned by 49th Parallel Roasters Inc. (BC0669456), a British Columbia company registered since 2003 and currently active. The company's own site and trade press credit brothers Vince and Michael Piccolo as founders in 2004, and Daily Coffee News reported that Montreal-based investment firm Claridge Inc. took a stake in the company in early 2019, without disclosing whether it was a minority or majority position. Both the founders and Claridge are Canadian, so the mix is unaffected either way, but BC's registry does not expose private shareholding percentages, so this rests on press coverage rather than a filing.

• OrgBook BC registry credentials: 49TH PARALLEL COFFEE ROASTERS (FM0440478) registry “relationship_description: Is Owned By, associated_registration_name: 49TH PARALLEL ROASTERS INC.”
• OrgBook BC registry credentials: 49TH PARALLEL ROASTERS INC. (BC0669456) registry “name: 49TH PARALLEL ROASTERS INC., entity_status: ACT, entity_type: BC, registration_date: 2003-05-12”
• Vancouver's 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters to Tap Into Claridge Investment press “Claridge is a Montreal-based investment firm run by Stephen Bronfman.”

49th Parallel roasts and packs all of its coffee at its own facility at 6741 Cariboo Rd in Burnaby, BC, which also serves as the company's head office. No other roasting or co-packing site is mentioned anywhere on the site.

• Locations - The Roastery | 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters vendor_statement “All our coffee is freshly roasted and packed in this facility.”

Every disclosed location is Canadian: the Burnaby roastery and head office, four cafes in the Vancouver area, and one cafe in Montreal. The site names no office, staff, or facility outside Canada.

• Locations - The Roastery | 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters vendor_statement “6741 Cariboo Rd Unit #112, Burnaby, BC V3N 4A3”
• Locations | 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters vendor_statement “DOWNTOWN MONTREAL [488 McGill St] Montreal, QC H2Y 2H2”

Green coffee cannot be grown in Canada, so every bean 49th Parallel roasts is imported. Its sourcing page names direct-trade partner farms in Huila, Colombia, Antigua, Guatemala, and Santa Barbara, Honduras, and third-party coverage adds Kenya, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Ethiopia to the origin list. None of the stated origins are in the US or EU, so the mix goes entirely to OTHER.

• Sourcing | 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters vendor_statement “Carlos Guamanga is a young and innovative coffee-grower, who has been partnering with 49th for five years now.”
• 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters - Wikipedia other “The company sources beans directly from farmers including Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, Kenya, Costa Rica, Brazil, Ethiopia and more.”