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The Nrthrn

Canadian-owned · mostly made in Canada · based in Quebec

Montreal brand that custom-fills goose, duck, and vegan-down duvets and pillows to order and separately sells duvet covers, sheets, and towels made in Portugal, Italy, and Turkey, sold only direct online.

Montreal, QC CA · thenrthrn.com

82.7

The Nrthrn is a Montreal bedding brand founded by Alex Kertzer that fills goose, duck, and vegan-down duvets and pillows at its Montreal workroom from European down, and separately sells duvet covers, sheets, and towels made in Portugal, Italy, and Turkey, plus a synthetic-fill duvet made by Ottawa's Cuddle Down. It sells only through its own direct-to-consumer website.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The Nrthrn's own About Us page names Alex Kertzer as founder, describing how she started the brand after a decade in home fashions, and madeinca.ca lists the brand as Canadian owned. Corporations Canada's federal registry search returned no matching entity for the corporate name The Nrthrn inc, and the Registraire des entreprises du Quebec blocked the request with a 403 response, so ownership rests on the founder's own account rather than a registry filing.

Manufacturing

69.5 reported

CA 45% · EU 45% · other 10%

The FAQ states that all duvets and pillows are made in Montreal, Canada, while sheets, duvet covers, and cases are made in Portugal. Individual product pages complicate that general rule: the Signature and Italian White Hotel Collection duvet covers are instead cut and sewn in Canada from imported fabric, while the Filari-branded sheets, duvet covers, and Classic Sateen line are made wholly in Portugal, and the Suprelle duvet and pillow are made by Ottawa's Cuddle Down. Product pages name the Turkish Cotton Towels line only by name, without stating a manufacturing country, so that share is inferred and no US manufacturing was found anywhere on the site.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The Nrthrn's privacy policy gives its only address as a suite on Monkland Avenue in Montreal, Quebec, and no other office, studio, or warehouse location appears anywhere on the site. As a single-site business its people mix is set to Canada.

  • Privacy policy vendor_statement “The nrthrn 5633 monkland suite 102 Montreal Quebec H4a1e2”

Inputs

45.5 reported

EU 85% · other 15%

Down is harvested in Poland for the goose lines and France for the duck line, then cleaned in Germany, and the Signature, Italian, Filari, and Classic Sateen cotton lines all name Portugal, Italy, or Egyptian cotton milled through Portugal as their fabric source; the linen robe is made of European washed linen. No Canadian-sourced material was found on the site. The towel line's cotton is inferred as Turkish only from the product name, since the product page does not state a fabric origin.

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