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Yogi

US-owned · made in the US

Eugene, Oregon herbal, green and black wellness tea bags (Ginger, Restful Sleep, Egyptian Licorice), sold in North America by the privately held East West Tea Company, LLC and blended at its LEED-certified Eugene factory. The Canadian site has no cart; it points shoppers to Loblaws, Sobeys, Well.ca and Amazon.ca.

Eugene, OR US · www.yogi-life.com

Found at Loblaws Sobeys
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Yogi is a US wellness tea brand that traces to a 1970s chai recipe from Kundalini yoga teacher Yogi Bhajan and is run in North America by East West Tea Company, LLC, a privately held Oregon limited liability company at 1325 Westec Drive, Eugene. Its North American teas are blended at one LEED-certified factory in Eugene from herbs bought in India, Central America, Spain and elsewhere, and a separate sister company, YOGI TEA GmbH, makes the European range in Imola, Italy. Nothing about the brand is Canadian beyond its shelf space.

Switch: Owned by East West Tea Company, LLC of Eugene, Oregon, with all North American production at its single Eugene factory.

Factors

Ownership

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US 100%

The vendor's terms of use, on both the US and Canadian sites, name the operator as East West Tea Company, LLC, doing business as Yogi, a limited liability company with its principal place of business in Eugene, Oregon, and its privacy policy carries the same entity's copyright; Wikipedia describes the company as privately held, with East West Tea Company, LLC owning the North American business and YOGI TEA GmbH the European one. The Oregon Secretary of State record cited by Wikipedia sits behind a captcha and could not be read, Corporations Canada returned zero results for both East West Tea and Yogi Tea, and SEC full-text search found no filing naming the company, so there is no registry-grade confirmation and no Canadian entity. The CANADA List records the owner as East West Tea Company, USA.

Manufacturing

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US 100%

The vendor's sustainability page describes one LEED-certified facility in North America and refers to its Eugene factory, and Wikipedia records the 2018 move of American manufacturing from Springfield to Eugene, Oregon. The European range is made by the sister company in Imola, Italy, but the Canadian site is the North American one and its products carry the US-registered 076950 barcode prefix, so Canadian shelves are assumed to be served from Eugene. The CANADA List records manufacturing as USA.

People

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EU 10% · US 90%

The head office and factory are in Eugene, with a sales and marketing office in Portland per Wikipedia, and the vendor names Eugene, Hamburg and Imola as the places where it employs people. Hamburg and Imola belong to the European sister company rather than the North American operator that serves Canada, so a small EU share is counted for shared brand work; no headcount by country is published and there is no Canadian office, so this split is an estimate.

Inputs

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EU 10% · other 70% · US 20%

The teas are blends of herbs and spices that mostly grow outside North America: the company's own giving-back post names long-standing suppliers in Assam, India, in Honduras and in Spain, and its sustainability page describes regenerative farming projects in Guatemala. Filter paper and envelopes are now sourced near the Eugene factory and cartons are presumably North American, which is the US share; no ingredient breakdown by country is published, so the split is an estimate.

  • Yogi Tea - Doing Good press “Q-Trade and Yogi Tea began our partnership in 2006. We source several ingredients from them that originate in Assam.”
  • Sustainability at Yogi Tea | Well-Being for People and Planet | Yogi Tea vendor_statement “We source our filtration papers from suppliers who have provided statements that they use a non-heat sealable filtration paper made from a select blend of high-quality manila hemp (abaca) fibers or bamboo fibers and wood pulp.”

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