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DESIGNME Hair

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Quebec

Professional vegan shampoo, conditioner and styling from a Montreal salon brand, made in Canada.

Montreal, QC CA · designmehair.com

84.9

DESIGNME, legally 9330-5639 Québec Inc. (Design.Me) of Dorval, is a professional vegan hair care brand founded in 2016 whose co-founder Safir Shnayderman is still CEO, with headquarters in the Montreal area and all products stated to be made in Canada. It sells direct, through more than 20,000 salons in Canada and the US, Chatters, and in the US through Nordstrom, SalonCentric and Amazon. No grocer stocks it: the Shoppers Drug Mart brand page returns 404 and Costco.ca finds no match, while Walmart.ca blocked the fetch.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 inferred

CA 100%

The terms of service name the legal entity as 9330-5639 Québec Inc. (Design.Me) at 680 Ave Lépine, Dorval, QC, and Corporations Canada returns zero results for the number, Design.Me and DESIGNME, so it is a Quebec provincial corporation. The Registraire des entreprises du Québec, OpenCorporates, SEDAR+ and the shareholder register could not be checked, and EDGAR full-text search returns nothing; no acquisition, investor or parent turned up in press, the November 2024 release quotes Safir Shnayderman as CEO and co-founder, and The CANADA List and madeinca.ca call it Canadian owned, so it is treated as a founder-held private company.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's about page and FAQ state that all products are proudly made in Canada, and The CANADA List and madeinca.ca place production in Montreal. The vendor does not name the plant or say whether it owns it or uses a contract manufacturer, so it may be a Quebec contract filler; no second country of manufacture was found.

People

80.5 reported

CA 85% · US 15%

The FAQ says the company is Canadian with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, and the terms and privacy pages give the Dorval address; Canadian orders ship from a Montreal facility. US, UK and French orders ship from facilities in Missouri, England and the Netherlands, and the professional site serves US salons only, so a small US sales presence is assumed; the split is an estimate since no headcount by country is published.

Inputs

25.5 inferred

CA 20% · EU 15% · other 35% · US 30%

The vendor says its products are vegan and made from natural ingredients but discloses no ingredient or packaging origin, so the split is an estimate that assumes salon-grade surfactants, botanical oils and bottles are mostly imported. The store runs on Shopify and the brand also sells through salons and retailers, so there is no single platform dependence.

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