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Kimboo

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Quebec

Trois-Rivières, Quebec maker of evolutive wooden toys, balance boards, climbing triangles, and play sets made in Canada and sold direct through its own online store.

Trois-Rivières, QC CA · kimboo.ca

95.2

Kimboo is the wooden toy brand of Jouets KIMBOO Inc., a family business founded in late 2018 by Jerome Hajek and Monika Szpakowska and registered at 720 Rue Saint Alexis in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Its balance boards, climbing triangles, cubes, and play sets are made in Canada from wood and natural oil finishes and shipped from Quebec, sold almost entirely through the founders' own Shopify storefront. The Registraire des entreprises du Québec could not be reached to confirm incorporation and share ownership, so the ownership and people mixes rest on the founders' own statements and independent press coverage rather than a registry.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Two founder interviews name Jerome Hajek and his wife Monika Szpakowska as the co-founders and operators of Jouets KIMBOO Inc., a Quebec-based family business started in late 2018. The Registraire des entreprises du Québec returned a bot-check wall (HTTP 403) on every search attempt and Corporations Canada's federal registry shows no matching corporation, so this rests on the founders' own account rather than a registry filing.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor states all toys are made in Canada, and the founder repeats this in two separate interviews, including that the toys are manufactured locally and that a dozen people work on production. An independent reviewer who received a free product corroborates the made-in-Canada claim. No specific factory or workshop address beyond the registered office in Trois-Rivières was found, so this is a vendor and press claim, not an inspected facility.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's own terms page gives its only address as 720 Rue Saint Alexis, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, and the founder describes a dozen people working on production there, with no other site or office mentioned anywhere. This is a vendor-stated address rather than a registry filing, since the Registraire des entreprises du Québec could not be reached.

Inputs

68.0 inferred

CA 60% · other 40%

The vendor discloses only that toys use mainly wood and natural oil finishes with packaging made of locally recycled cardboard, without naming a wood species or supplier country. An independent reviewer describes one product as made from Baltic birch plywood, a multi-ply construction historically sourced from the Baltic region and still often imported even when the toy is assembled in Canada, so a meaningful non-Canadian share for the wood itself is assumed pending clearer vendor disclosure.

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