Kilne

The vendor calls itself "proudly Canadian" and the site's copyright notice names the entity Kilne Cookware Inc. A 2024 press release identifies founder Mike Gettis, previously CEO of Endy (sold to Sleep Country Canada in 2018), and LinkedIn lists a 2-10 person Toronto team including Gettis and three others. Corporations Canada's federal registry returns zero results for "Kilne" or "Kilne Cookware", so the entity is likely a provincial Ontario corporation, and the Ontario Business Registry's public search is CAPTCHA-gated and could not be queried by automation. No acquisition, parent company, or outside investor turned up; the 2024 press release says Kilne retained an advisory firm to help raise capital for expansion, which could change this in future, but no completed investment was found.

• Learn More vendor_statement “We're proudly Canadian and design all our products on home soil.”
• Kilne vendor_statement “Copyright © 2026 Kilne Cookware Inc.”
• Kilne Cookware, Founded by Former Endy CEO, Retains Westmount Capital Partners as Exclusive Financial Advisor press “Kilne Cookware was established in 2020 by Mike Gettis, who previously served as CEO of Endy”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Corporations Canada registry “0 results were found, 0 returned.”
• Kilne | LinkedIn other “2-10 employees, Toronto, Canada, Founded 2019”

The vendor's Learn More page names a manufacturing partner for each product line: a family-owned factory in Italy (est. 1875) for ceramic cookware, a stoneware producer in Portugal (est. 1998) for dinnerware, a glassmaker in Poland (est. 1923) for glassware, a flatware maker in Portugal, and a factory in China for knives, knife sets, and accessories. Weighting by the 47 non-gift-card product listings in the storefront catalogue (13 cookware, 6 dinnerware, 5 flatware, 1 glassware in Italy/Portugal/Poland, versus 22 knives and accessories in China) gives roughly 53 percent EU and 47 percent other, an estimate by product line count rather than a published revenue split.

• Learn More vendor_statement “China - Knives, Knife Sets & Accessories: Factory operating 30+ years with eco-friendly practices”
• FAQ vendor_statement “meticulously crafted in Italy”
• Kilne product catalogue (Shopify products.json) other “49 products across Kitchen Knives, Cookware Sets, Pot, Dinnerware, Plate, Flatware Sets, Glassware and related types”

The vendor's contact page gives a Toronto, Ontario head office with no other location disclosed, and LinkedIn lists Kilne as a 2-10 person company headquartered in Toronto. No registry filing confirms a registered office, since the company does not appear in the federal registry and the provincial registry could not be queried.

• Get In Touch vendor_statement “Toronto, ON”
• Kilne | LinkedIn other “2-10 employees, Toronto, Canada”

The vendor explicitly separates knife blade steel, sourced from a German-spec steel producer, from knife assembly in China, so that material input is counted as EU even though the finished knives are made in China. Materials for the Italian ceramic cookware, Portuguese stoneware and flatware, and Polish glassware are assumed to be regional to those EU factories, since the vendor does not break out raw material origin separately. The wood and other accessory items sold alongside the knives have no disclosed material source and are assumed to track the China manufacturing group; the storefront itself runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, which is not reflected in this mix.

• Learn More vendor_statement “Germany - Knife Blade Steel: Steel manufacturer founded in 1910”
• FAQ vendor_statement “Crafted from X50CrMoV15 German stainless steel”