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St Genève

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in British Columbia

Richmond, BC maker of luxury down duvets, pillows, and bed linens, family founded in 1988 and sewn in-house at its own Richmond workshop, sold through Canadian and US bedding boutiques rather than direct.

Richmond, BC CA · www.stgeneve.com

94.0

St Genève is a family-founded Richmond, BC maker of luxury down duvets, pillows, and bed linens, sewing in-house at its own Richmond atelier since 1988 and selling only through Canadian and US bedding boutiques rather than direct. Down is sourced mostly from named Canadian suppliers with two Polish lines, while fabric comes chiefly from German and other European mills.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

OrgBook BC, drawing on the BC Corporate Registry, confirms St. Geneve Fine Bedlinens Ltd. (BC0437041) as an active British Columbia company continuously registered since 1992, but BC's registry does not publish a shareholder or significant-control list the way the federal ISC register does, so current ownership shares could not be verified directly. The vendor's own history page describes Michael and Annette de la Place as co-founders, with Annette as President, and nothing found indicates any outside investor or acquisition.

Manufacturing

95.0 reported

CA 90% · EU 10%

The vendor states its linens and down products are made to order at its own manufacturing facility and headquarters in Richmond, BC, by a women-led team of sewists and down experts. A directory corroborates Canadian manufacturing for bed linens but adds that some products, including certain pillows, are made overseas in Lithuania, so the mix is not treated as fully domestic.

People

100.0 verified

CA 100%

OrgBook BC confirms the company's entity type and home jurisdiction as British Columbia, and the vendor's contact page gives its only address as Richmond, BC. Nothing found suggests any office, warehouse, or design team outside Canada, consistent with the single-workshop model the founders describe.

Inputs

70.0 reported

CA 40% · EU 60%

Of the five named down lines, three are sourced in Canada (Eiderdown from a Quebec wildlife sanctuary, James Bay goose down collected by Cree First Nations, and Lajord goose down from a Saskatchewan farm) and two from Poland (Ziegler and Embassy). Fabric is sourced separately from European mills, with the vendor naming Germany for down-proof cotton and cotton spinning and citing the Masters of Linen mark for European linen, so the overall split leans European once fabric is weighed alongside down; no US material was found.

  • Eiderdown | St Genève vendor_statement “We get all of our Eiderdown from the Société Duvetnor; a wildlife sanctuary located in Quebec, Canada on the St. Lawrence River.”
  • James Bay | St Genève vendor_statement “It is collected from wild geese in the Canadian north by Cree First Nations under special license from the Canadian government.”
  • Lajord | St Genève vendor_statement “Lajord White Goose Down comes from a goose farm located in Saskatchewan.”
  • Ziegler | St Genève vendor_statement “the down from Ziegler is one of the best that Poland has to offer”
  • Embassy | St Genève vendor_statement “It is collected from mature geese in Poland and then meticulously hand sorted for the best and largest down clusters.”
  • Certifications | St Genève vendor_statement “All of our German made fabrics have achieved the OEKO-TEX® designation”

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