type private industry sporting goods founded weston ontario 1899 headquarters montreal quebec canada products ice hockey equipment inline skates parent adidas website www.ccmhockey.com ccm formerly an initialism for canada cycle & motor co. ltd. is a sporting goods brand . the brand is held by two separate entities both maintaining the ccm trademark one the hockey company now a subsidiary of reebok 1 manufacturing ice hockey equipment and the other ccm cycle manufacturing bicycles . contents 1 history 2 hockey equipment 3 sponsorships 9 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit ccm was founded in 1899 after the collapse of the bicycle market . established when the operations of four major canadian bicycle manufacturers amalgamated h. a. lozier massey harris goold and welland vale manufacturing . 2 ccm produced bicycles for many years in the area of weston toronto ontario . they also briefly produced the russell automobile . by 1905 with saturation in the bicycle market ccm began producing hockey skates using scrap steel that was leftover at the plant from the manufacture of bicycles and automobiles 3 and subsequently began manufacturing other hockey gear . former logo replaced by the current one in 2007 although this one is still occasionally used on throwback merchandise . in 1937 ccm acquired the tackaberry brand made by a manitoban named george tackaberry and tacks have been the company s signature skate until late 2006 when the tacks line was replaced with the vector line then the u line and now the rbz line . the tacks line was reintroduced in 2014 . the original ccm went bankrupt in 1983 . all of the assets of the company were purchased by procycle group inc. of quebec who retained the bicycle division and sold off the hockey division to montreal businessman david zunenshine who owned gc knitting a manufacturer of hockey jerseys . the company subsequently used the ccm brand when producing hockey equipment . 4 the company entered the toy industry in 1988 through the acquisition of coleco industries and in 1990 when they acquired another financially troubled company buddy l corp. a 70 year old manufacturer of steel and plastic toy cars and trucks based in the united states . 4 in 1991 the company incorporated and took the name slm international inc. 4 slm purchased kevin sports toys international inc. the maker of the wayne gretzky nhl hockey game norca industries inc. a plastic toy manufacturer of such products as swimming pools sleds and sandboxes and innova dex sports inc. of montreal a bicycle helmet manufacturer . 4 slm filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1995 selling off buddy l to empire of carolina inc. and the slm fitness equipment business . 4 the company emerged from bankruptcy protection in 1997 and reorganized . 4 the company acquired montreal based sports holdings inc in 1998 and became the world s top producer of hockey merchandise 4 adding the brands koho titan jofa canadien and heaton . titan and canadien were well known brands of wooden hockey sticks in the 1980s and 1990s with wayne gretzky having used the titan 4020 while playing with the edmonton oilers . heaton was known for its goalie equipment which was worn for years by martin brodeur . in 1999 slm was renamed the hockey company . 4 in june 2004 the hockey company was bought by reebok . 5 all brands other than the ccm brand were retired and reebok introduced its own rbk hockey gear later to be re branded as reebok hockey . 6 reebok in turn was acquired by adidas in 2005 . in the fall of 2013 the hockey company created a new goaltending equipment line under the ccm brand name . 7 beginning in 2015 the hockey company began phasing out the reebok name from their hockey equipment lines by creating equivalent or similar product lines under the ccm name . ccm is now the only brand name used by the company on its hockey equipment . 8 hockey equipment edit ccm manufactures a wide range of ice hockey equipment at all price points from recreational to professional . one major rival is bauer hockey . ccm is one of the official licensees sponsors and on ice suppliers of hockey equipment for the national hockey league until 2014 . ccm changed its logo in 2007 . sponsorships 9 edit nhl players 10 sidney crosby dustin brown brent burns nazem kadri vincent lecavalier maxime talbot john tavares joe thornton ryan nugent hopkins patrice bergeron nathan mackinnon connor mcdavid vladimir tarasenko filip forsberg dylan strome tyler toffoli jonathan ericsson seth jones matt duchene tomas tatar pavel datsyuk mike hoffman jonathan drouin sam reinhart niklas kronwall jakub voracek jonathan huberdeau carl hagelin mari n hossa niklas hjalmarsson jeff petry cody ceci matt dumba morgan rielly michael grabner david perron michael raffl nhl goalies carey price jonathan bernier semyon varlamov marc andr fleury roberto luongo corey crawford sergei bobrovsky see also edit ice hockey portal ccm cycle reebok references edit http corporate.reebok.com en news press releases ccm name change.asp ccm light delivery a thousand variations on a theme canada science and technology museum the story of ccm weston plant created much more than bikes and skates toronto star 24 july 2011 a b c d e f g h the hockey company company history funding universe retrieved 15 september 2010 reebok to buy ccm jofar koho brands . reebok to buy ccm jofa koho brands . http ingoalmag.com gear carey price new cmm gear reebok hockey . reebokhockey.com . retrieved 2016 08 12 . ccm pro players roster . ccm nhl player roster . external links edit ccm hockey equipment about ccm s roots retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ccm ice hockey & oldid 744492563 categories canadian brandssportswear brandsmotorized bicyclessporting goods manufacturers of canadacompanies based in montrealice hockey brandsbandy brandsadidas brandshidden categories use dmy dates from june 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged 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