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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

64.6

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 reported

CA 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.

Manufacturing

48.0 reported

CA 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.

People

61.0 reported

CA 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.

Inputs

20.0 reported

other 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.

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