Acti-Sol

What Acti-Sol does

Acti-Sol is a privately held Canadian manufacturer founded in 1995 and headquartered in Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil, Quebec. The company produces and supplies a multipurpose organic fertilizer whose principal input is recycled hen manure, positioned for use on flowers, herbs, and small plants in the home gardening segment. The product positioning sits at the intersection of organic gardening and circular-economy waste upcycling, converting a poultry-farm by-product into a packaged consumer soil amendment rather than relying on synthetic mineral inputs.

The business operates as a niche specialty CPG manufacturer in the Canadian organic lawn-and-garden category. Its end customers are home gardeners and hobbyist growers cultivating flowers, herbs, and small container plants — a fragmented, consumer-facing market. The revenue model is implicitly product sales through retail and/or direct channels, but no pricing model, channel mix, distribution partners, customer logos, or unit-volume data are disclosed in the available source material. No management team, headcount, funding history, ownership structure, certifications, patents, or strategic transactions are documented.

The available data is materially thin: the only firmographic facts are the name, the 1995 founding, the Quebec location, the product description, and the website domain (acti-sol.ca), which renders as a verification/challenge page rather than a fully scrapable site. Revenue, growth, and competitive-positioning assessment cannot be triangulated from the supplied input alone.

Name

Acti-Sol

Website

https://acti-sol.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Short description

Acti-Sol is a privately held Canadian manufacturer, founded in 1995 in Quebec, that produces multipurpose organic fertilizer made from recycled hen manure for home gardeners growing flowers, herbs, and small plants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Organic Fertilizers

NAICS

Fertilizer and Compost Manufacturing (32531), Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (3253)

akta.pro primary industry

Manure-Based & Digestate Soil Amendments (AFABADAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Organic & Regenerative Fertility Inputs (Manures, Plant/Animal Meals, Fish/Seaweed) (AFABAKAE), Soil Amendments & Conditioners (Lime/Gypsum/Humates) (IMAEAEAH)

Keywords

• Organic fertilizer
• Poultry manure fertilizer
• Garden soil amendments
• Plant nutrition products
• Recycled manure fertilizer

Headquarters

HQ city

Notre-dame-du-bon-conseil

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

Acti-Sol manufactures and supplies multipurpose organic fertilizer made from recycled hens manure, intended for use on flowers, herbs, and small plants. The product is positioned as an organic, recycled-feedstock alternative for home gardeners and small-scale plant growers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Multipurpose Organic Fertilizer (hens manure based)

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Dr. Earth: Organic fertilizer and soil-amendment brand selling into the home-and-garden retail channel. Comparable to Acti-Sol in its emphasis on organic, biologically based inputs and similar end customers (home gardeners growing flowers, herbs, and edibles).
• Sustane Natural Fertilizer: Manufacturer of organic fertilizers derived from turkey litter and other composted manure sources. Highly comparable to Acti-Sol's hen-manure feedstock approach and serves overlapping organic home-garden and specialty crop markets.
• Espoma Company: U.S. manufacturer of organic fertilizers and soil amendments for home gardeners, including manure-based and plant-meal products. Espoma is the closest direct analogue to Acti-Sol in product positioning, channels (independent garden centers, mass retail), and customer base (flowers, herbs, vegetables).
• Jobe's Company: Brand of organic and conventional fertilizer spikes and granular products sold into the home gardening channel. Direct competitor in the flowers/herbs/vegetables segment and an example of how organic fertilizers are packaged and merchandised at retail.
• Down To Earth Distributors: Producer of all-natural and organic fertilizers, many built around animal- and plant-meal inputs (including poultry-based). Direct peer to Acti-Sol given similar organic input philosophy and overlap in target crops (flowers, herbs, vegetables).
• FoxFarm Soil & Fertilizer Company: Specialty organic and premium plant nutrition brand for hobbyist and small-grower markets. Overlaps with Acti-Sol on organic positioning and the flowers/herbs/small-plants customer segment, though FoxFarm skews toward cannabis and indoor growing.
• Black Kow Compost: Marketer of composted cow manure-based soil amendments and organic fertilizers for home gardeners. Shares Acti-Sol's manure-upcycling story and serves overlapping flowers, herbs, and vegetable-garden customers via retail and garden centers.

Broad incumbents

• Scotts Miracle-Gro Company: Dominant incumbent in the consumer lawn-and-garden category with an expanding organic line (e.g., Miracle-Gro Organic). Sets the competitive ceiling for Acti-Sol in retail distribution and represents the largest competitive threat to small organic specialists.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/engraisACTISOL

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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