Raincoast Books
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| Industry | Book Distribution |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Founder | Allan MacDougall, Mark Stanton |
| Headquarters |
 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Key people
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John Sawyer, CEO Allan MacDougall, Chairman of the Board Paddy Laidley, Executive VP Sales and Marketing Graham Fidler, Executive VP Publishers Group Canada |
| Products | Books |
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Number of employees
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90 |
| Website | raincoast.com |
Raincoast Books is a Canadian book distribution and wholesale company. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Raincoast was founded by Mark Stanton and Allan MacDougall in 1979 as a consignment wholesaler that shared overhead, warehouse space and staff with the pair's sales agency, Stanton & MacDougall. Today, Raincoast has over 90 employees and three divisions: Raincoast Distribution, Publishers Group Canada, and BookExpress.
Raincoast Distribution provides Canadian representation to general trade and gift publishers from the United States and Canada. Companies distributed by Raincoast include Chronicle Books, Drawn & Quarterly, Hay House, Lonely Planet, Moleskine, and New Harbinger. Raincoast was awarded Book Distributor of the Year by the Canada Booksellers Association in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Publishers Group Canada (PGC) was acquired by Raincoast Books in 2000. Based in Toronto, Ontario, PGC distributes independently owned book publishing houses including Grove Atlantic, New World Library and Egmont Books in Canada.
BookExpress is a wholesale division supplying Canadian bookstores and retailers. BookExpress carries bestselling books from publishers including Random House Canada, Penguin Books Canada, HarperCollins Canada, H.B. Fenn, Andrews McMeel, Scholastic Canada, Diamond Book Distribution and Firefly.
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