CCM (ice hockey)

CCM (originally for: Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. ) is a leading manufacturer of ice hockey and inline skating products. This is also an eponymous bicycle brand emerged that continues today as a bicycle product line from Canadian Tire.

History

CCM was founded in September 1899 in Weston (Ontario), Canada. First, the company concentrated on the production of bicycles. In 1905, the Canadian bicycle market was saturated, the operation skates and accessories began to manufacture.

In the 1970s, the company ran into financial difficulties and filed for bankruptcy in 1983. Then the Hockey division and the bicycle division was separated, the latter was sold to the Procycle Group and has since been trading as CCM motorcycle. This was followed by the hockey products Manufacturer several changes of ownership, CCM 2004 was (along with the brand KOHO ) integrated into the company Reebok, which belongs to the Adidas Group since 2005.

2007, a new logo was introduced, which is also used by the bicycle brand.

Products

Skates

Developed in 1905 the shoemaker George Tackaberry a new fit for skates, where he reinforced the toe and heel area. From 1937 produced the CCM Tackaberry skates. Later, the additional designation of CCM Tacks skates, mostly a reinforced heel area had ( Tacks, Tacks Super, Ultra Tacks ) was.

In the 1990s, the Series 152 was produced with the type numbers have been increased each year by 100 (252, 352 .. 1152 ), and the premium product always had the highest. From this nomenclature was found that each product received, the number of the next higher from the previous year. The Tacks series was commercially very successful, and also had offshoots as inline skates. The series was replaced in 2006 by the Vector series.

2014 Tacks was reactivated as a designation of a new series. The current skates are structurally very similar to the models of Reebok.

Inline skates

It produces parallel models of skates, as well as models with a plastic shell similar to the roller-blades, as the model CCM Wildcat. With the latter an entry into the mass market of inline skates was beabichtigt. Later the range was, however, more strongly adapted to the hockey skates.