Bauer Hockey
Bauer Performance Sports Ltd.. ( Nike between 2005 and 2008 Bauer) is a leading manufacturer of ice hockey equipment, ice skates and sports textiles. Bauer produces helmets, gloves, bats, skates, shin guards, shoulder and elbow pads as well as goalkeeper equipment.
History
The farmer's family, owner of the " Western Shoe Company ," the company Bauer founded in Kitchener (Ontario) in 1927, the shoe manufacturers Greb Industries took over in the 1950s, the company, in 1974 the company Warrington, the ski boots and ice entrepreneur Icaro Olivieri rises 1981 in the company and takes over 1988. Henceforth, the company is renamed in Canstar Sports and restricted the range on hockey equipment.
In 1994 Canstar was acquired by Nike and run as a subsidiary. In 2006, Bauer products were then marketed with the publication of the Bauer Supreme One90 as Nike Bauer. These were the first Nike products at all, bore the name of a subsidiary. Bauer Hockey was kept on 12 February 2008 for U.S. $ 200 million to investors Roustan, Inc. and Kohlberg & Co. sold, could the name Bauer, however. Since the products no longer wear the Nike Bauer logo, but a redesign of the old logo before the Nike takeover.
On 25 September 2008 Bauer announced the acquisition of competitor Mission - Itech. The equipment of Mission Itech Hockey and was marketed from 2009 under the name Bauer.
- 2010 farmer buys the company Maverik Lacrosse.
- 2011 Bauer announces plan for conversion into a Public Company and the related initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
In 2012, Bauer announced plans to take over the company Cascade.
Products
Bauer was in 1933 the first ice hockey equipment, which started to produce ice skates, whose runners were firmly attached to the boots. The boot was made by Bauer, the runner of the now defunct Starr Manufacturing Company in Dartmouth ( Nova Scotia ). This innovation was originally marketed under the brand name Bauer Supreme. Later, the market for ice hockey skates was dominated by the Konkurennten CCM, the models of George Tackaberry successfully produced in 1937 under the name Tacks. This shoe was worn by all NHL Topscorern in the years from 1939 to 1969.
The name Bauer returned to its former prominence after the company hired the former superstar Bobby Hull as an advertising medium for Bauer skates.
The current NHL legislation which prohibits the use of fancy skates was introduced on 24 September 1927, forbade it were, all the shoes that were no tube skates. The plastic or rubber stopper, which you could find on the verses of the later tube skates were, after an injury of Maurice Richard, who played in just this season 1958/59 with the Canadiens de Montréal, developed by CCM. It was introduced in 1964 binding of the NHL.
In the early 1970s, the Canadian Jim Roberts started to wear in the meantime well known Tuuk runners. Other senior teammates like Guy Lafleur, Steve Shutt and Jacques Lemaire soon followed. The success of this blade was so great that the various Canstar brands such as Micron, Bauer, etc. in the NHL had a market share of about 70 % in 1995. Their Tuuk and ICM skids, or systems together were able to record a share of 95 % even though the ICM system was no longer offered for field players, but only for goalkeepers.
In 1994, Bauer began producing the perforated Tuuk chassis, which is the connecting part between the equipment Stahlkufe and the actual shoe. This invention revolutionized the sport of ice hockey because it allowed skates lighter, more durable. The current spearhead of the Bauer skates is the Bauer Supreme TOTALONE NXG. This new skate uses a material that is not based on epoxy resin and 35-45 % lighter than its predecessor, the Supreme ONE95. The Supreme ONE95 weighed in size 8750 grams. This low weight is achieved without the use of perforated blades. The shoe was worn by hockey greats such as Mike Fisher, Erik Cole and Milan Lucic. For those who like the ONE95 wanted a skate that ONE100 was published. It has the same specifications as the ONE95, with the largest difference in the preformed shoe is ( top of the range can be individually adapted to the shape of the foot of the player ). Average of five players per NHL team wear ice skates Vapor series. The latest Vapor APX skate is the Vapor, which according to the succession of the Vapor X: 60 compete. Bauer also brought the X7.0 for those on the market, a shoe identical to X is: 60 wanted. This shoe is very popular with all types of players and is even preferred by some NHL players Evgeni Malkin as, Phil Kessel and Teemu Selanne against the APX.
2006, the last of the competitors CCM Tacks series was produced and taken over the company Reebok in the meantime had with Bauer Vapor series great success.