Bigelow Tea

The vendor's Canadian Bill S-211 page names the legal entity R.C. Bigelow Inc., headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut and 100 percent family and women owned, and its Meet the Family page names Cindi Bigelow as third-generation president and CEO. Corporations Canada returned zero results for Bigelow Tea, so there is no federal Canadian entity; the company is private, so no SEC or SEDAR+ filing exists and the only EDGAR hits are competitor 10-Ks that mention it, and the Connecticut business registry was not checked, so this rests on the vendor's own statements.

• Canadian Bill S-211 vendor_statement “Headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut and 100% family and women owned, R.C. Bigelow Inc. pioneered the specialty tea category in 1945.”
• Meet the Family vendor_statement “third generation president and CEO of family-owned Bigelow Tea in 2005”
• Terms of service – Bigelow Tea vendor_statement “201 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield CT 06825”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada registry “Searched for: Corporate name: Bigelow Tea 0 results were found, 0 returned.”

The vendor's S-211 page says Bigelow has operations in Connecticut, Idaho, Kentucky and South Carolina, its careers page lists the Fairfield headquarters plus Boise and Louisville industrial sites, and its Reducing our Footprint page refers to all manufacturing facilities as zero waste to landfill. Wikipedia adds that every blend is made in Fairfield with additional plants in Boise and Louisville, and that the Charleston Tea Garden does not produce the company's teas, so all manufacturing is in the US.

• Canadian Bill S-211 vendor_statement “Bigelow Tea has operations in Connecticut, Idaho, Kentucky, and South Carolina.”
• Career Opportunities – Bigelow Tea vendor_statement “2401 Constant Comment Place”
• Reducing our Footprint - Bigelow Tea vendor_statement “Since 2012, we have maintained 'Zero Waste to Landfill' status operations across all manufacturing facilities.”
• Bigelow Tea Company - Wikipedia press “all of which are blended in Fairfield. The company has other plants in Boise, Idaho, and Louisville, Kentucky.”

Headquarters is at 201 Black Rock Turnpike in Fairfield, Connecticut, and every job location on the careers page is in the US (Fairfield, Boise, Louisville and Charleston). Wikipedia reports about 350 employees; no Canadian office or staff were found, so people go entirely to the US.

• Career Opportunities – Bigelow Tea vendor_statement “201 Black Rock Turnpike”
• Canadian Bill S-211 vendor_statement “Headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut”
• Bigelow Tea Company - Wikipedia press “Bigelow employs 350 people”

The vendor's ingredients page sources black tea from high elevation gardens in India and Sri Lanka, green tea from tea-growing countries, rosehips from Chile, bergamot oil from Calabria, Italy, and mint, lemon and chamomile from the US and North America. Tea leaf is the bulk of every product, so the split weights OTHER first, then US-grown botanicals and US packaging, then Italian bergamot; the proportions are an estimate, not a published breakdown.

• Discover Our Ingredients – Bigelow Tea vendor_statement “high elevation gardens in the misty mountain tops in places like India and Sri Lanka”
• Discover Our Ingredients – Bigelow Tea vendor_statement “100% American grown in the northwest corner of the United States”
• Our Difference vendor_statement “real bergamot oil from Calabria, Italy and American grown mint from the Pacific Northwest”