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Audvik

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Quebec

Montreal maker of winter coats founded in 1979, handcrafted from recycled fabric and insulation in its Chabanel district workshop and sold direct online, alongside a smaller Asia-made FOSFO puffer line.

Montreal, QC CA · audvik.com

85.2

Audvik is a small Montreal winter coat maker founded in 1979, acquired and now run by president Sophie Boyer since 2012. Its Audvik-branded coats are handcrafted from recycled fabric and insulation entirely in its Chabanel district workshop, while a secondary FOSFO puffer line sold on the same site is designed in Canada but produced in Asia. It sells direct only, with no marketplace or third-party retailer link found.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's About page says Sophie Boyer, a former member of Quebec's cross-country ski team, acquired the Quebec company in 2012 and is now its president, and its team page lists her as Owner & President. Its LinkedIn page separately describes the company as self-owned with 2 to 10 employees. Quebec's business registry (REQ) returned a Cloudflare block on every attempt, so its ownership filing could not be checked; a federal Corporations Canada search found a corporation named Audvik Ltee (110139-1) incorporated in 1981 in St-Clet, Quebec, but its directors of record and last annual meeting date to the 1990s and its filings have lapsed toward involuntary dissolution, so it looks like a stale shell tied to the founders rather than the current Montreal operation and was not used as evidence.

Manufacturing

84.0 reported

CA 80% · other 20%

The vendor's FAQ states all Audvik coats and beanies are 100 percent made in Montreal, and its Local Production page says every coat is handcrafted start to finish in its Chabanel workshop; its careers page also lists an open Seamstress/Tailor production role in Montreal. Its site also sells a smaller FOSFO puffer line, on the same domain and under the same company, that the FAQ says is designed in Canada but produced in Asia. Counting FOSFO's roughly six product listings against about thirty Audvik-branded coats in the same collections gives an estimated four-fifths Canadian share by product line count.

  • Frequently Asked Questions | Audvik vendor_statement “All Audvik coats and beanies are 100% made in Montreal. All our products from the FOSFO collection are designed in Canada and produced in Asia.”
  • Winter coats made in Montreal | Local production | Audvik vendor_statement “We are very proud to handcraft all the coats in our Audvik collection from start to finish, directly in our Chabanel workshop in the heart of Montreal's fashion district.”
  • Audvik careers vendor_statement “Seamstress/Tailor, full-time, Production, Montreal, Quebec”

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's About page lists its whole team, including a head seamstress, a sewist, a sample seamstress, designers, a sales director, and customer service, all working out of its 1625 Chabanel West workshop in Montreal, and its careers page lists every open role as based in Montreal. LinkedIn separately lists the company as headquartered in Montreal with 2 to 10 employees. No other office or production site was found.

Inputs

33.5 inferred

CA 20% · other 75% · US 5%

The vendor says its coat fabric is 100 percent recycled, made from recovered water bottles, and that all its coats now use a recycled insulation, but it never names the mill or country that supplies either material. Its Local Production page says it works with local labor, artisans, and suppliers near its Montreal workshop, which points to some local sourcing of trims and services, but specialized recycled technical fabric and insulation of this kind are not milled in Quebec at this scale, so the estimate assumes the bulk of raw material inputs are imported.

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