Giant Value

Giant Tiger Stores Limited is described by Retail Insider and Wikipedia as a privately held company owned by founder Gordon Reid and his family, historically with a group of key employees; the press profile of the 2023 CEO appointment repeats that it is privately held with over 265 stores. Corporations Canada returned zero results for the name, so it is presumably an Ontario corporation, and the Ontario Business Registry sat behind a CAPTCHA, so no registry or shareholder record was checked. No press, filing, or Wikipedia article mentions a Sobeys or Empire stake, and The North West Company's Western Canada relationship was a master franchise that ended in 2020, not equity.

• Giant Tiger Continues Rapid Canadian Store Expansion as it Breaks Ground on New Headquarters press “The privately-held company, by founder Gordon Reid and his family”
• Interview with Giant Tiger's New CEO Gino DiGioacchino on the Future of the Iconic Canadian Retailer [Interview] press “The privately-held company has over 265 locations across Canada and employs over 10,000 people”
• Giant Tiger - Wikipedia press “shared between Reid and ten key employees”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada registry “Searched for: Corporate name: Giant Tiger 0 results were found, 0 returned.”

Giant Tiger publishes no origin on the product pages, and the Shopify body text is empty. The CANADA List records the Giant Value shampoo and conditioner as made by a Canadian third-party contractor, and 946 ml liquid hair care is normally co-packed close to market; the elastics, claw clips, bobby pins and brushes are commodity accessories with no origin claim and are treated as imported, with the epsom salts likely packed in Canada or the United States. The split is an estimate by product line, not a published number.

• The CANADA List directory “Giant Tiger's private label, made by a Canadian 3rd party contractor”
• Giant Value Argan Oil Conditioner, 946 ml – Giant Tiger vendor_statement “Giant Value Argan Oil Conditioner, 946 ml”
• Giant Tiger hair-care collection products.json vendor_statement “Giant Value Cushion Hairbrush”

Giant Tiger's head office has been on Walkley Road in Ottawa since 1996, with a new headquarters broken ground in 2019, and its roughly 10,000 employees work in Canadian stores, the Ottawa office and Ontario distribution centres. The brand has no staff of its own outside the chain.

• Giant Tiger Continues Rapid Canadian Store Expansion as it Breaks Ground on New Headquarters press “We opened our first store in the ByWard Market in 1961, and our headquarters have been here on Walkley Road since 1996.”
• Interview with Giant Tiger's New CEO Gino DiGioacchino on the Future of the Iconic Canadian Retailer [Interview] press “employs over 10,000 people”

No ingredient or supplier list is published. Shampoo and conditioner are mostly water and Canadian-blown bottles, but the surfactants, conditioning agents, argan and buriti oils and fragrance are imported chemistry from the United States, Europe and Asia; epsom salt is largely imported magnesium sulfate, and the hair accessories arrive finished from Asia. The split is an estimate.