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| Company type | Limited |
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| Industry | Book distribution |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Founder | Allan MacDougall, Mark Stanton |
| Headquarters | Richmond, British Columbia, Canada |
Key people | John Sawyer, CEO Pete MacDougall, Executive VP Sales and Marketing Graham Fidler, Executive VP Publishers Group Canada |
| Products | Books |
Number of employees | 100 |
| Website | [1] |
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.