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Viberg

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

Victoria, British Columbia family bootmaker since 1931 that makes its boots in its own factory and sells direct online and through stockists in Canada, the United States, and internationally.

Victoria, BC CA · viberg.com

85.2

Viberg Boot Mfg Ltd is a Victoria, BC bootmaker founded in 1931, family owned and now in its third generation, that builds its Goodyear-welted and stitchdown boots in its own factory using Horween shell cordovan and Chromexcel among other leathers. It sells direct from its own site and a New York flagship store, and through independent stockists across Canada, the US, the UK, Europe, and Asia.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The BC Corporate Registry, mirrored on OrgBook BC, confirms Viberg Boot Mfg. Ltd. is an active British Columbia company (business number 105522205) with no foreign parent on file, but BC's registry does not publish beneficial ownership or individuals with significant control for provincial companies the way the federal ISC register does, so the controlling family member could not be independently verified by name. The vendor's own site describes itself as a 3rd generation, family owned and operated company, and madeinca.ca corroborates that it has stayed in the same family since 1931.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Madeinca.ca lists Victoria, British Columbia as Viberg's manufacturing location and says the company is committed to making boots in Canada for its Canadian and global customers. The vendor's own Making page describes its Goodyear-welt and stitchdown construction in detail and calls itself a bootmaker rather than a brand that outsources production, but the site text I could reach does not itself name Victoria as the factory, so this rests on the directory listing rather than an explicit vendor statement of location.

  • Best Boot Brands in Canada | Made in CA directory “Manufacturing Location: Victoria, British Columbia ... Viberg is committed to making boots in Canada for its Canadian and global customers.”
  • Making vendor_statement “The Chassis of our Goodyear Welt construction is made up of a heavy-weight leather insole between 5.2-5.5mm in thickness”

People

87.0 reported

CA 90% · US 10%

The BC registry places Viberg's registered office in British Columbia, matching Victoria as the operating base for its factory craftspeople, which madeinca.ca identifies as the manufacturing location. The vendor's stockists page also lists a company-run flagship store and staff at 262 Mott Street, New York, so a small share of employees are US based; the split is an estimate since no employee count is published.

Inputs

18.5 inferred

CA 5% · EU 40% · other 20% · US 35%

The vendor names Horween, the Chicago tannery, as its partner for the Chromexcel and Shell Cordovan lines, a meaningful share of the catalogue, which sets the US share. Other leathers such as Janus Suede, Alcazar Calf, French Calf, and Kudu are not tied to a named tannery or country anywhere I could find on the site, so the split between Europe and elsewhere is my estimate based on those leather names and the vendor's general claim of sourcing from "the finest tanneries in the world," and hardware, soles, and other components are undisclosed.

  • Shell Cordovan® vendor_statement “blending Viberg's hand-crafted footwear tradition with Horween's legacy of leather tanning expertise”
  • Making vendor_statement “All of our upper leather is finished leather, we leave the skins as natural as possible from 'tannery to footwear'.”

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