PlaSmart

PlaSmart describes itself as a Canadian-based, global toy distributor, and Wikipedia's profile, built on Ottawa Business Journal reporting, records it as a private company founded and run from Ottawa by Timothy Kimber since 2003, with no acquisition, parent, or outside investor found in press searches. Corporations Canada's federal registry turns up only one 'PlaSmart Inc.', an unrelated, discontinued corporation registered in Ancaster, Ontario under different directors, and Ontario's own business registry search was blocked by a CAPTCHA, so ownership rests on the vendor's and press's statements rather than a confirmed registry filing.

• Federal corporation information - 413788-4 - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada registry “Status: Inactive - Discontinued on 2021-08-31”
• About Us - Plasmart Toys vendor_statement “PlaSmart® Inc. is a Canadian-based, global toy distributor”
• PlaSmart - Wikipedia other “Formed in 2003 by Canadian entrepreneur Timothy Kimber”

No page on plasmarttoys.com states where products are manufactured. The flagship PlasmaCar began as a 'Fun Car' already being imported from China when its founder discovered it in an Ottawa mall in 2002, and the toy directory madeinca.ca separately lists PlaSmart's manufacturing location as international. No Canadian factory turned up for any PlaSmart line, including licensed lines it distributes such as India's Smartivity, so the whole catalog is treated as made outside Canada, the US, and Europe as a best estimate.

• PlasmaCar - Wikipedia other “Kimber discovered that while the Fun Car sold well in China, it had virtually no presence in Canada or the United States.”
• Best Toy Brands in Canada | Made in CA directory “Manufacturing Location: Internationally”
• About Us — Smartivity vendor_statement “how Smartivity became India's No.1 STEAM Toy brand”

PlaSmart's only current, publicly disclosed address is its Nepean, Ontario office, and the vendor describes itself as Canadian-based with a history in Ottawa dating to 2003. Wikipedia, citing a 2012 Ottawa Business Journal account, says PlaSmart once shipped North American orders from Pennsylvania and California warehouses after closing its Ottawa warehouse, but the current site names no location besides Nepean, so people are treated as fully Canadian based on the one office it discloses today.

• Contact Us - Plasmart Toys vendor_statement “PlaSmart Inc. 228-30 Colonnade Road Nepean, Ontario K2E 7J6 Canada”
• PlaSmart - Wikipedia other “closed its Ottawa warehouse and currently ships products destined for North American markets from its warehouses in Pennsylvania and California”

PlaSmart does not disclose where materials for its toys come from. Since the flagship PlasmaCar originated as an imported Chinese ride-on toy and madeinca.ca lists the brand's manufacturing as international, materials are assumed to be sourced alongside assembly, outside Canada, the US, and Europe. PlaSmart runs no direct online storefront, so there is no e-commerce platform dependency to weigh, and licensed lines such as India's Smartivity add further sourcing outside those three regions.

• Best Toy Brands in Canada | Made in CA directory “Manufacturing Location: Internationally”
• PlasmaCar - Wikipedia other “Kimber discovered that while the Fun Car sold well in China, it had virtually no presence in Canada or the United States.”