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Bluesound

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Ontario

Pickering, Ontario wireless hi-res streaming speakers and NODE players from Bluesound International, a division of the privately held Lenbrook Group, designed in Ontario, assembled overseas, and sold direct plus through Amazon and authorized dealers.

Pickering, ON CA · www.bluesound.com

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Bluesound is the wireless streaming speaker and NODE player brand of Bluesound International, a division of Lenbrook Industries Limited, a privately held company headquartered in Pickering, Ontario since its 1978 founding by David S. Simmonds and now led by president and CEO Gordon A. Simmonds. Its products are designed by Lenbrook's Pickering team but manufactured overseas, chiefly in Asia, alongside sibling brands NAD Electronics and PSB Speakers. Bluesound sells direct from its Shopify-based storefront and through Amazon in Canada and the US, plus authorized dealers found through its locator.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Lenbrook.com describes the Lenbrook Group as a privately held Canada-based company, founded in Pickering in 1978 by David S. Simmonds and led today by president and CEO Gordon A. Simmonds, with no acquisition, parent, or outside investor found in searches. Corporations Canada shows no federal registration for Lenbrook Industries Limited, so it appears to be provincially incorporated in Ontario, and the Ontario Business Registry's public search blocked automated access, so this rests on the vendor's own statement rather than a registry filing.

Manufacturing

20.0 inferred

other 100%

Bluesound's own site does not state where products are made. Madeinca.ca lists Bluesound as manufactured overseas, and wifihifi.com reports that sibling brand NAD, developed by the same Lenbrook Pickering team, has design and engineering done in Canada while many products are manufactured in Asia; no Bluesound-specific manufacturing statement was found, so the near-total overseas share is inferred rather than vendor-confirmed.

People

72.5 reported

CA 75% · other 10% · US 15%

Lenbrook's careers page lists only its Pickering, Ontario office, and LinkedIn shows the same Pickering headquarters for its roughly 190-person Lenbrook Group workforce. Lenbrook's About Us page notes 200-plus team members "across key geographies" and names Lenbrook Americas and Lenbrook Asia subsidiaries for sales and distribution outside Canada, so a minority of staff is assumed to sit in the US and Asia even though no country-by-country breakdown was published.

Inputs

14.0 inferred

CA 5% · other 75% · US 20%

The NODE's DAC is a SABRE ES9039Q2M from ESS Technology, a US chipmaker, and the storefront runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, but neither Bluesound nor Lenbrook discloses where speaker drivers, enclosures, or circuit boards are sourced. With final assembly placed in Asia, most materials are assumed to come from the same region, so the split is an estimate.

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