Granville Island Tea Company

The vendor says it was founded in 1999 by Deborah and Mark Mercier and is a family managed business focused on a single store, and its terms page names the legal entity Granville Island Tea Company Ltd. The BC Corporate Registry, read through OrgBook BC, lists Granville Island Tea Company Ltd. (BC0696443) as an active BC company incorporated 2004-06-01 alongside the 1999 sole proprietorship registration, but it does not expose directors or shareholders, Corporations Canada returned zero results, and nothing in Wikidata, madeinca.ca or the CANADA List suggests any outside owner, so the family ownership itself rests on the vendor's statement.

• About us vendor_statement “Founded in 1999 by Deborah and Mark Mercier, Granville Island Tea Co. was born from a genuine love of tea.”
• Why are our 100 gram prices so good? vendor_statement “We are a family managed business that operates our business like a family”
• Terms and conditions of use vendor_statement “Granville Island Tea Company Ltd, does not sell or redistribute any information”
• OrgBook BC topic search: Granville Island Tea registry “GRANVILLE ISLAND TEA COMPANY LTD. BC0696443 registration_date 2004-06-01 entity_status ACT entity_type BC home_jurisdiction BC”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada registry “Searched for: Corporate name: Granville Island Tea 0 results were found, 0 returned.”
• Tea: Granville Island Tea Company | Made in CA directory “Canadian Owned: Yes”

The vendor says it buys tea sealed at source, opens lots as needed, packs orders into 100 gram bags, keeps a Vancouver warehouse where staff work, and does the work itself where it can, and its house blends such as Canadian Breakfast, the signature tea bags and the chai mix are its own recipes, which madeinca.ca corroborates as manufactured in Vancouver. The site never states outright where blending and packing happen, and single-estate and other unblended teas are finished at origin with only packing done in Canada, so the CA share is an estimate and the OTHER share covers that origin processing.

• Why are our 100 gram prices so good? vendor_statement “We do have a warehouse in Vancouver and employ 22 people for most of the year who either work in the store, office or warehouse.”
• Chai Tea & Spices | Granville Island Tea Co vendor_statement “Our custom blend of milk powder, sugar, and secret spice mix.”
• Canadian Breakfast | Granville Island Tea Co vendor_statement “one of our signature breakfast blends”
• Tea: Granville Island Tea Company | Made in CA directory “Manufactured In: Vancouver, BC”

The vendor says it has avoided expansion and runs a single store at 1689 Johnston Street in the Granville Island Public Market, with a Vancouver warehouse and 22 employees who work in the store, office or warehouse. No location outside Canada was found.

• Why are our 100 gram prices so good? vendor_statement “We have managed to avoid the temptation of expansion and focused on our single store.”
• About us vendor_statement “1689 Johnston St Vancouver, BC V6H3R9”

Tea is not grown in Canada and the product pages name Ceylon, Assam, Kenya, Yunnan and Fujian as origins, with rooibos and herbal ingredients also imported, so most inputs are OTHER. The CA share is an estimate covering the milk powder and sugar in the chai mix, maple syrup, packaging, the self-hosted PrestaShop store and Moneris payment processing, and the vendor publishes no sourcing breakdown.

• Granville Island Tea Co | Premium Loose Leaf Tea | Vancouver BC vendor_statement “An OP grade of tea harvested from the high regions of Ceylon”
• Canadian Breakfast | Granville Island Tea Co vendor_statement “Malty notes from the Assam, flower-like hints from the Kenya, with delicate wisps of oiliness from the Yunnan.”
• Secure payment vendor_statement “Moneris is Canada's largest payment provider”
• Tea: Granville Island Tea Company | Made in CA directory “Their teas are sourced from locations all over the world including India and China.”