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Sloane Tea

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Toronto tea blender and importer founded by tea sommelier Hoda Paripoush, selling whole leaf loose teas, sachets, matcha and tea lattes in signature caddies direct online and through independent grocers, gift shops, hotels and cafes.

Toronto, ON CA · sloanetea.com

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Sloane Tea Company Ltd. is a federally incorporated Toronto tea blender and importer founded in 2008 by tea sommelier Hoda Paripoush, owned directly by her and Dean Paripoush with no corporate parent. Leaf tea is imported from gardens in India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan and Taiwan and hand blended and packed in Canada, then sold direct online and through roughly 200 independent grocers, gift shops, hotels and cafes, mostly in Ontario, with a handful of US cafes.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 verified

CA 100%

Corporations Canada lists Sloane Tea Company Ltd. (693750-1) as an active CBCA corporation incorporated 2008-03-09, a non-distributing corporation with a Markham, Ontario registered office, and its individuals with significant control register, confirmed 2026-05-07, names only Dean Paripoush and Hoda Paripoush, each holding 25 to 50 percent of the shares directly since incorporation, so no parent company or outside investor takes the profit. The one caveat is that both owners give an address in Alcabideche, Portugal in the ISC register while the sole director, Dean F. Paripoush, lists Thornhill, Ontario; the register does not say whether that Portugal address is residential or an address for service, so the founders may now live abroad even though the company and its operations are Canadian.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's Why Sloane page states that all Sloane Fine Teas are hand blended in small batches in Canada in its nut-free, organic and kosher certified facility, and a 2018 National Post interview with the founder says everything is blended and packaged in Canada, in Toronto and Vancouver. Blending and packing is the whole of the manufacturing step for a tea merchant, so it is all Canadian; the exact facility address was not published anywhere fetched.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor describes its Canadian studio and Canadian blending facility, press coverage places the company in Toronto, the registered office is in Markham, Ontario and the director's address is in Thornhill, Ontario, and the retailer map is concentrated in the Toronto area. No staff outside Canada were disclosed; the vendor publishes no headcount, and the Portugal address of the two owners in the significant-control register is the only sign of anyone connected to the company outside Canada.

Inputs

28.0 reported

CA 10% · other 90%

Tea is not grown in Canada; the vendor says it buys direct from farmers in the mountains of India, China, Japan and Taiwan, and the founder names Assam and Ceylon leaf and Jaipur roses in the National Post interview, so nearly all inputs are from Asia. The small Canadian share is an estimate for packaging and local handling, since the origin of the signature caddies and botanicals was not published; the storefront runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, alongside a broad retail network, so there is no platform dependence.

Where to buy

Grocers

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