Raincoast Books

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Raincoast Books

Company type	Limited
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.