Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee
Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario
Mississauga, Ontario tea and coffee company founded in 1912, a fourth-generation family-owned business controlled by the Higgins family, roasting coffee at plants in Mississauga and Fort Worth, Texas. Coffee brands include Marley Coffee, Martinson, Wolfgang Puck Coffee, and Higgins & Burke, plus private label for grocery and foodservice; the site has no consumer storefront.
Mississauga, ON CA · mother-parkers.com
Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. is a fourth-generation, family-owned roaster headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, founded in 1912 and led by Higgins family co-chairmen with a non-family CEO running daily operations. It roasts coffee at plants in Mississauga and Fort Worth, Texas, and sells Marley Coffee, Martinson, Wolfgang Puck Coffee, and Higgins & Burke alongside private label for grocery and foodservice, with green coffee imported entirely from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Factors
Ownership
100.0 reportedCA 100%
The vendor's Our Story page describes Mother Parkers as a fourth-generation, family-owned, privately held company, with Michael Higgins and Paul Higgins Jr. serving as co-chairmen and a non-family CEO, Danielle Barran, running daily operations. Corporations Canada's federal search tool and the Ontario Business Registry both returned bot-detection pages rather than search results for automated queries, so this rests on the vendor's own statement rather than a registry filing.
- Our Story - Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. vendor_statement “As a fourth-generation family-owned, privately held company we continue to invest in growth and in our customer partnerships.”
- Our Story - Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. vendor_statement “Michael Higgins Co-Chairman Paul Higgins Jr. Co-Chairman”
Manufacturing
48.0 reportedCA 60% · US 40%
The vendor's Coffee Excellence page lists three coffee production lines in Mississauga, Ontario (roasting and packaging, single-serve roasting and packaging, and organic roasting with complete extract solutions) against one coffee roasting and packaging facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Both are real, full-scale plants and Fort Worth was named a Food Manufacturing Plant of the Year, so the Canada-weighted split is an estimate from the number of listed production lines rather than a published volume or revenue breakdown.
- Coffee Excellence - Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. vendor_statement “Mississauga, ON Coffee roasting and packaging facility”
- Coffee Excellence - Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. vendor_statement “Fort Worth, TX Coffee Roasting & Packaging Facility”
- Our Story - Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. vendor_statement “2000s A new coffee roasting facility and distribution center opened in Fort Worth, Texas.”
People
61.0 reportedCA 70% · US 30%
The vendor's Contact Us page names its Mississauga, Ontario address as the Canada head office and its Fort Worth, Texas address as a secondary U.S. office, and its Our Story page describes an Ajax, Ontario tea blending facility. With head office status and two Ontario sites against one Texas site, and no published headcount by location, the split is an estimate weighted to Canada.
- Contact Us - Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. vendor_statement “CANADA Head Office 2531 Stanfield Road Mississauga, Ontario, L4Y 1S4”
- Contact Us - Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. vendor_statement “U.S. Office 7800 Will Rogers Blvd. Fort Worth, Texas 76140”
- Our Story - Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. vendor_statement “2016 Premium loose-leaf tea began shipping from our Ajax tea blending facility in pyramid sachets.”
Inputs
20.0 reportedother 100%
Green coffee cannot be grown in Canada, so every bean Mother Parkers roasts is imported. Its Coffee Excellence page names Latin America, Africa/Arabia, and Asia Pacific as its sourcing regions across '20+ origins, sourcing 65+ different bean types,' with no U.S. or European origin mentioned, so the mix goes entirely to OTHER.
- Coffee Excellence - Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. vendor_statement “Sourcing at Origin: 20+ origins, sourcing 65+ different bean types”
- Coffee Excellence - Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. vendor_statement “Latin America Known for well-balanced coffees often tasting of nuts of cocoa”
Where to buy
Found via
- web search 2026-09-07
- madeinca.ca 2026-09-13