CCM Hockey

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Current logo from CCM

CCM (originally for Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd ) is a leading manufacturer of ice hockey and inline hockey supplies. This also gave rise to a bicycle brand of the same name, which is continued today as a bicycle product line by Canadian Tire .

history

The logo of the CCM brand until 2006
Logo of the Finnish brand KOHO

CCM was founded in Weston , Ontario , Canada in September 1899 . At first the company focused on the production of bicycles. In 1905 the Canadian bicycle market was saturated and the company began manufacturing ice skates and accessories.

In the 1970s the company ran into financial difficulties and filed for bankruptcy in 1983. The ice hockey division and the bicycle division were then separated, the latter was sold to the Procycle Group and has been operating as CCM cycle ever since . Various changes of ownership followed at the ice hockey manufacturer, in 2004 CCM (together with the KOHO brand ) was taken over by Reebok , which in turn was taken over by the Adidas Group in 2005 . Subsequently, part of the CCM range was also offered under the name Reebok, and the jerseys were only offered by Reebok.

In 2007 a new logo was introduced, which is also used by the bicycle brand. As of 2015, ice hockey and inline hockey equipment series were no longer offered under the Reebok name, in this context, for example, the ice hockey player Sidney Crosby switched to the CCM brand. In 2017 the company was sold by Adidas to the Canadian investment company Birch Hill Equity Partners . Adidas has also been supplying the NHL jerseys since then.

Products

Ice skates

In 1905, the shoemaker George Tackaberry developed a new type of fit for ice skates in which he reinforced the toe and heel area. From 1937, CCM produced the Tackaberry ice skates. Later, the additional name of the CCM ice skates was Tacks , which mostly had a reinforced heel area (Tacks, Super Tacks, Ultra Tacks).

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

In the meantime, CCM had introduced the RBZ ice skate, in which the runners and chassis are 4mm higher than all other popular models. This should generate tighter curve radii. In 2014 Tacks was reactivated as the name of a new series, until the Reebok ice skates were discontinued in 2015, they were structurally very similar.

bat

In addition to the RBZ ice skate, CCM developed the RBZ stick in collaboration with Taylormade Golf , which has a flexible kick point . The racket series is currently being continued in its third development and is played by NHL players such as Gabriel Landeskog and Brent Burns .

In addition to the Tacks ice skates, the new Tacks ice hockey stick was launched in 2014. It has a mid-kick point and is primarily designed for hard slap shots. Players like Patrice Bergeron and Seth Jones use it in the NHL. In the course of the incorporation of Reebok Hockey, their Ribcor series runs under the name CCM. Sidney Crosby and Matt Duchene are the ones who play it in the NHL.

Inline skates

CCM 605 with removable and adjustable chassis, approx. 1998

Parallel models of the ice skates are produced, at the end of the 1990s the CCM Tacks RH 455 Pro was the top model and was later replaced by the CCM Tacks RH 970 Pro . The only difference to the ice skates was the black instead of white lined flap on the shoe side, as it was believed that using it would contaminate it more quickly. The rail can be seen as a curiosity, in both cases milled from aluminum profiles, the shoes were heavier than the cheaper models with plastic rails, and had a positive difference in terms of their longer service life. In later models, applications were added, which serve to increase wear on the shoe.

In order to open up the mass market, soft boot models with a plastic shell similar to roller blades, such as the CCM Wildcat model, were also offered . However, the range was later adapted more closely to ice hockey skates and focused on inline hockey shoes, which were also offered under the Reebok name until 2015.

CCM player

Outfield player

goalkeeper

Web links

Commons : CCM Hockey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Adidas finds buyers for ailing brand wiwo.de, July 27, 2017