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Quartz Co.

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Quebec

Quebec outerwear brand making down parkas at its own Montreal factory with lifetime repairs, plus lighter jackets and raincoats made internationally, sold direct online, through boutiques, and at retailers.

Montreal, QC CA · quartz-co.com

79.9

Quartz Co. is the Montreal outerwear brand of Quartz Nature Inc., originally founded in Victoriaville, Quebec in 1997 and acquired in 2015 by brothers Jean-Philippe, Francois-Xavier, and Guillaume Robert. Its down parkas are made at the company's own Montreal factory with a lifetime repair program, while lighter jackets, raincoats, and some accessories are made internationally at certified partner factories, mostly in China. Down comes from Allied Feather + Down, a US supplier whose own disclosures put roughly three quarters of its down at a Chinese origin and most of the rest from Central and Eastern Europe.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 verified

CA 100%

Corporations Canada's individuals with significant control register for the active Quartz Nature Inc. (corporation number 1373521-4) lists Jean-Philippe Robert and Francois-Xavier Robert as the only two individuals with significant control, each directly holding at least 25 and up to 50 percent of the shares since 2023, both with Montreal addresses. The registry also lists all three Robert brothers as directors at Montreal addresses, matching the vendor's own account of the 2015 acquisition from founder Yves Trudeau. The Quebec business registry (REQ) returned a bot-verification page and could not be checked directly.

Manufacturing

76.0 reported

CA 70% · other 30%

The vendor says most products are made in Canada at its own Montreal factory, with certain specialized items made at certified international partner factories. Checking the per-product country of origin listed on 25 of the site's roughly 60 current jacket, coat, and vest listings found 18 marked Made in Canada, mostly the down parkas and insulated jackets, and 7 marked Made in China, mostly lighter jackets and raincoats, giving an outerwear split of about 70/30 by product count from this sample.

People

100.0 verified

CA 100%

Corporations Canada lists the registered office at 101 rue Maguire, Montreal, matching the vendor's stated head office address. The vendor's own pages describe a Montreal design atelier, a Montreal production factory, and Montreal boutiques, and its careers page lists open sewing, design, and retail roles only in Montreal, with no other office or production site disclosed.

Inputs

14.0 inferred

CA 5% · other 75% · US 20%

All of Quartz Co.'s down is supplied and certified by Allied Feather + Down, a company headquartered in Montebello, California, whose own sourcing page says about three quarters of the world's down comes from China with most of the remainder from Central and Eastern Europe; Quartz Co. does not disclose which of Allied's farms supply its own down. Shell fabrics are recycled polyester, recycled nylon, wool, and organic cotton with certifications but no stated country of origin, so that share is assumed to follow the same mostly Asian sourcing pattern as the international manufacturing. The storefront runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, which is a minor and not materially weighted factor.

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