CCM history

By 1905, with saturation in the bicycle market, CCM began producing hockey skates using scrap steel that was left over at the plant from the manufacture of bicycles and automobiles, and subsequently began manufacturing other hockey gear.

Interest in the Stanley Cup led to the creation of professional leagues and eventually the creation of the National Hockey League in 1917.

The roots of CCM Group stretch back to 1977, when Commercial Centers Management Realty launched in Puerto Rico with a focus on providing acquisition, development, leasing and asset management services.

The original CCM went bankrupt in 1983.

Zuzenshine made further inroads into toys in 1990 through another distress sale, picking up the remains of United States toy truck maker Buddy L Corporation.

He supplemented this business in 1992 by acquiring Montreal-based Norca Industries Inc., maker of children's swimming pools and sleds, as well as sandboxes, some of which bore the Batman and Playskool licenses.

SLM continued to expand in 1993.

By this point, Takefman was already gone, having resigned in August 1994 because of philosophic differences over the company's future direction.

Canstar was acquired in 1995 for CAD546 million by Nike, Inc., the United States athletic footwear company that had its sights set on hockey.

In September 1996, Wasserman signed a five-year agreement to succeed Howard Zunenshine as SLM's CEO at the behest of a creditor's committee comprised of representatives from six insurance companies and several banks.

In 1997, the company emerges from bankruptcy protection and reorganized.

In 1999, SLM is renamed The Hockey Company.

The other brands—Heaton, Canadien, and Titan—became subbrands under the main three, with CCM associated with Heaton, Titan with Jofa, and Koho with Canadien. Thus, when in 2000 it won the licensing rights to manufacture and market jerseys for all 30 NHL teams as well as the uniforms for officials, the company parceled the business to the different brands.

In June 2004, The Hockey Company was bought by Reebok.

Reebok in turn was acquired by Adidas in 2005.

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.Then in 2006 Reebok were bought by Adidas-Salamon AG of Germany, Adidas continue to use the Reebok name on Hockey equipment.

In 2009, building on CCM’s legacy of real estate leadership, CCM Real Estate opened its doors in Washington, DC to invest in commercial real estate in the eastern United States.

CCM Energy launched in late 2012 to execute this strategy, investing expansion capital into high-growth companies offering clean energy and resource efficiency solutions for the built environment.

In the fall of 2013, The Hockey Company created a new goaltending equipment line under the CCM brand name.

The "Tacks" line was later reintroduced in 2014.

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.

In 2017, Adidas sold CCM to a Canadian private equity firm, Birch Hill Equity Partners, for around $100 million.