Timeline
Purity Life
Purity Life celebrates 40 years of distributing products that make a difference in people’s lives.
Purity Life opens distribution centre location in Laval.
Purity Life attends first virtual CHFA tradeshow which was a great success.
Purity Life opens distribution centre location in Calgary. Education portal launched.
Purity Life wins CHFA Supplier of Excellence award.
Purity Life wins CHFA Supplier of Excellence award.
Purity Life wins CHFA Supplier of Excellence award.
Purity Life celebrates 30 years of distributing products that make a difference in people’s lives. Purity life launches CustomerLink, it’s first retailer online ordering system with real-time inventory and invoice/statement lookup.
Purity Life publishes “HABA-cabadra! with category management” booklet and wins CHFA Supplier of Excellence award.
Sunopta sells Purity Life to Mathew James and Banyan Capital partners and wins CHFA Supplier of Excellence Award.
David Chapman Retires
Purity Life publishes retailer booklet “Optimizing Natural Personal Care Sales”.
New lines and additional sales people rapidly drive company growth. Vancouver distribution centre moves to new expanded location.
Purity Life publishes “Natural body care products; a glossary of terms and ingredients”.
SunOpta purchases Purity Life and Quest/Herbon brands. Large western distribution centre opens.
Distribution of Wakunaga’s Kyolic® brand in Canada begins.
Purity Life hosts its first trade show at the Acton high school.
Purchase of Vita Health distribution, including the Natures Harmony brand. Purity Life wins CHFA supplier of the year award.
Purity Life launches the runaway success Cellasene® For cellulite reduction.
New category ‘Immune Modulation’ is launched in Canada and the United States with Moducare®.
Acton head office receives large addition and installs automated carousel systems to increase productivity and turnaround.
Head office moves to its current location in Acton, Ontario.
Purity Life grows to 35 full time employees.
Launch of Pep brand in Canada.
First western sales rep is hired. A Vancouver sales office and small warehouse open. Weleda distribution begins.
Acton distribution centre opens and distribution of Ecover begins. Purity Life introduces and launches the first tea tree oil product in Canada – Thursday Plantation.
Purity Life begins distributing Kiss My Face and Quantum. Donna Bannister, Purity Life’s 3rd employee, is hired and remains with Purity Life for more than 30 years.
David and Elyse Chapman launch Purity Life as a mail order business with the first products being Barlow knee support, Apricot kernels, Aerobic 07, and Lavilin deodorant, the last of which Purity still distributes today.