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33-594: The arena has been used by numerous film and television crews, also in Bauer 's "Leave an Impression" advertising campaign. Many NHLers began their Junior hockey career in Stratford with the Junior B Stratford Cullitons (who have moved back to their original name 'Stratford Warriors' in 2016). 43°22′26″N 80°58′34″W  /  43.373962°N 80.976191°W  / 43.373962; -80.976191 This article about

66-466: A Canadian ice hockey arena is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bauer, Inc. Bauer Hockey LLC is a manufacturer of ice hockey equipment , fitness and recreational skates and apparel. Bauer produces helmets, gloves, sticks, skates, shin guards, pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, hockey jocks and compression underwear, as well as goalie equipment. Some of its equipment, such as its ice hockey skates , are also approved for use in

99-434: A Western Canadian diversified oil production and distribution company later sold to British-American Oil ; Polaroid Corporation ; Cineplex Odeon ; and Ticket Reservation Systems, a pioneering computerized sales system for entertainment tickets founded in 1966. Following the dissolution of Cemp in 1987, and the replacement of Edgar Bronfman Sr. by his son, Edgar Bronfman Jr. , at the helm in 1994, Seagram embarked on

132-607: A loss. In 1981, flush with cash from the sale of Texas Oil and Gas and looking to diversity their holdings, Seagram launched a takeover bid for Conoco. In the ensuing bidding war, DuPont Inc. took over Conoco Seagram swapped the 32% of Conoco they had just purchased for 20% of Dupont for approximately $ 3.28 billion. Seagram later raised its stake in Dupont to 24.1% and in 1995, sold the shares back to DuPont for US$ 8.8 billion. Cemp made numerous investments during its history, including taking ownership stakes in: Royalite Oil Company,

165-553: A manufacturer of molds, blades, and buckles – which controlled the remaining 3 per cent of Gamebridge. Finally, on 6 March 1981, Warrington acquired Tuuk Sports Limited of Montreal, a manufacturer of skate blades. Effective 14 June 1980, Greb Industries Limited merged into Warrington, making Greb an operating division, and in early 1981 Warrington moved its offices from Kitchener to Montreal. In May 1982, Icaro Olivieri replaced David Simpson as president of Warrington. In November 1986, Warrington announced that on 1 December of that year,

198-705: A new era for the company. In 1965, Roy Bauer sold his four companies – Western Shoe, Canada Skate, Bauer Shoe, and Bauer Canadian Skate – to Greb Industries Limited, a shoe manufacturer based in Kitchener. Greb Industries had been founded on 27 October 1930 as the Greb Shoe Company Limited. Then in the early 1970s, Jim Roberts, also of the Canadiens, began wearing the TUUK blade. High-profile teammates Guy Lafleur , Steve Shutt and Jacques Lemaire soon followed. By 1995,

231-461: A new subsidiary called Canstar Sports Group Inc. would take over the company's athletic shoe and skate manufacturing operations. In March 1987, Canstar sold the Greb shoe operations in Kitchener to Taurus Shoes of Montreal. At the time, Warrington had an accumulated debt of $ 74 million and owed shareholders 23.4 million. In early July 1988, Icaro Olivieri, past president of Warrington, arranged to purchase

264-577: A series of major acquisitions and new directions. In 2000, Seagram was sold to France-based Vivendi for US$ 34 billion in stock that provided the Bronfmans with a significant shareholding in Vivendi. The company was renamed Vivendi Universal. Within two years it virtually collapsed under the leadership of its French chairman, Jean-Marie Messier . This resulted in a US$ 5 billion loss to the Bronfman family, in one of

297-512: Is the piece of equipment that connects the steel blade to the actual boot of the skate. This allowed skates to be made lighter, as well as more durable. In 1995, Canstar, the parent company of Bauer, became a wholly owned subsidiary of Nike . On 1 June 1995, Canstar Sports was renamed Nike Bauer Hockey Limited. In 2006, beginning with the release of the Nike Bauer Supreme One90, the company's products were rebranded as Nike Bauer. This

330-589: The Toronto Eaton Centre , each local landmarks. In 1975, Cadillac Fairview expanded into the U.S. real estate market. After the property development downturn in the early 1980s, Cemp sold its interests in CF in 1986. In 1963, Seagram Co. Ltd. purchased Texas Pacific Coal and Oil (later Texas Pacific Oil Company ), the 5th largest independent oil producer in the United States, for US$ 280 million. Only $ 65 million of

363-506: The 30s and 40s. In the 1960s & 70's, the company paid superstar Bobby Hull to endorse their skates. As well superstars Bobby Clarke and Bernie Parent of the Flyers, Guy Lafleur of the Canadiens and Walter Tkaczuk and Brad Park of the Rangers were signed to endorsement contracts by Pro Department Manager Bill Vanderburg. These moves, and the introduction soon after of the TUUK chassis, ushered in

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396-527: The Bronfman family established two holding companies to hold the assets of the children of brothers Samuel and Allan, beginning with Seco Ltd. which held the stock in Distillers-Seagram Co. Ltd. : Cemp for the four children of Samuel, and Edper Investments for the two children of Allen. Each company was an amalgam of the children's names. Cemp's ownership was by a variety of trusts established to minimize exposure to taxes. When established, ownership

429-572: The Montreal-based branch of the family the sole owner. In Canada the company focused primarily in commercial real estate and the liquor business. Starting in the early 1960s, most of the Cemp's acquisitions and diversification were in the United States through its New York-based Seagram subsidiary, Seagram Co. Ltd. For much of its history, Cemp was run by Leo Kolber , who served as president. Following

462-611: The Western Shoe Company Limited was formed in Kitchener, Ontario. At an unknown date, Roy Charles Bauer (1895–1989) became president of the company. On 5 May 1934, Bauer formed a new company, the Canada Skate Manufacturing Company Limited, to produce ice skates. By the summer of 1934, skate manufacturing was online at the Western Shoe factory at 236 Victoria Street North. According to Roy Bauer,

495-454: The blade was permanently secured to the boot. The boot and blade were made by Bauer. In years following, Bauer Skate's top line was originally marketed under the trade name "Bauer Supreme" . The company was further popularized by the prominence of Bobby Bauer , a family member through marriage, as a Bauer married a Bauer, and Hockey Hall of Fame member who starred for the Boston Bruins in

528-548: The company filed a prospectus for an initial public offering with the intention to raise $ 75 million. The offering was underwritten by a consortium of brokers led by Dominion Securities and Wood Gundy . After raising the money, Bauer Performance Sports would acquire the Kohlberg Sports Group Inc. outright. On 10 March 2011, Bauer Performance Sports completed its offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange under

561-468: The company. In October 2016, the Performance Sports Group filed for bankruptcy. In January 2017, PSG reached an agreement with Sagard Capital Partners and Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd to sell Bauer's assets for $ 575 million. The sale gave Sagard 74 per cent of Bauer, while Fairfax held 26 per cent. On 11 October 2016, a new Canadian federal corporation called Peak Achievement Athletics Inc.

594-740: The death of Samuel Bronfman in 1971, control of Cemp and its subsidiaries was shared between brothers Charles (in Montreal ) and Edgar (in New York ). In 1987, Charles Bronfman announced that Cemp was to be dissolved and the assets distributed to its individual family-member owners. At the time its major asset was a 40% stake in Cadillac Fairview Corp. Charles Bronfman said he would transfer his Cemp assets, as well as his own personal 16.5% stake in Seagram, into his own company, Claridge Investments. During

627-467: The early 1960s, Cemp acquired a 30% stake in Paramount Pictures and sold it in 1966 to Charles Bludhorn of Gulf & Western . In 1968, Seagram Co. Ltd. purchased 15% of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , and for a very short time was its largest and potentially controlling shareholder. This was Cemp's first significant venture into the entertainment industry and sold it several years later at

660-553: The inspiration for a combined shoe-skate operation came from his wife. He said, "she went shopping for skates and boots for our son Gerald and came home complaining about the inconvenience she had suffered by having to trot all over town." Bauer products were distributed in Canada by the Bauer Shoe Company, and in the United States by Bauer Canadian Skate Inc. Bauer was the first hockey company to begin producing hockey skates in which

693-470: The purchase was made with equity; this financing has been described as an early example of leveraged buyout , whereby the share purchase was financed through future expected earnings, not assets. Seagram pursued investment in the oil industry in the United States due to more favorable American tax laws which helped them offset profits in its New York-based parent company with oil depletion allowances. In 1981, Seagram sold it to Sun Oil for $ 2.3 billion. In

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726-538: The sport of ringette . Bauer developed and manufactured primarily ice hockey skates until 1990, when it acquired the hockey assets of Cooper Canada Ltd. In 2014, Bauer expanded into baseball and softball by purchasing Easton Diamond from Riddell (BRG Sports). Bauer operates as a unit of Peak Achievement Athletics Inc. in New Hampshire . The origins of the Bauer brand of hockey equipment trace to 14 September 1906, when

759-411: The struggling company for $ 8.9 million. The 30 per cent share held by Cemp would be acquired jointly by a numbered company owned by Olivieri and by DCC Equities Limited, a subsidiary of Dynamic Capital Corporation. On 2 September 1988, Warrington was renamed Canstar Sports Inc. Olivieri hired Gerald B. Wasserman to turn around the company. In 1994, Bauer began producing the perforated TUUK chassis, which

792-633: The symbol BAU. On September 25, 2008, Bauer announced the purchase of rival Mission -Itech. Mission and Itech gear was rebranded as Bauer beginning in 2009. In June 2014, Bauer Performance Sports Limited changed its name to the Performance Sports Group Limited. Sagard Capital Partners LP, a subsidiary of the Power Corporation of Canada , began acquired Performance Sports Group shares in June 2014 and by late 2016 owned around 17 per cent of

825-536: The time of Cemp's ownership of Seagram, the distilling empire established itself as one of the two largest distilling companies in North America and diversified into property development, natural resources, and entertainment. In 1955, Edgar Bronfman moved to New York to head up the Seagram's new US subsidiary, Seagram Co. Ltd., from which the company's greatest expansion occurred. In 1958, Cemp established property developer Fairview Corporation. Its premiere development

858-598: The various Canstar skate brands (Micron, Bauer, etc.) had a 70% NHL market share while their TUUK and ICM holders combined for a 95% share. (Note: Bauer no longer offers the ICM holder on player skates, although it is still offered with goalie skates, in addition to the TUUK cowling.) In May 1974, Greb announced that it was begin acquired by Warrington Products Limited of Toronto. Warrington, a consumer products company, had been founded on 29 August 1969 as W.C.G. Sports Industries Ltd., and in 1971 changed its name to Warrington. The company

891-608: Was 30 per cent owned by Cemp Investments , a holding company set up for the children of Samuel Bronfman after his death. Other Warrington-owned companies included Industrial Plastics Extrusions Company Limited, the Danby Corporation, and the Dominion Luggage Company Limited. The acquisition was completed in the fall of 1974. Beginning in December 1978, Warrington went on an acquisitions spree. The first purchase

924-524: Was a 50 per cent stake of Gamebridge Inc. which manufactured ice skates and roller skates. This was followed in November 1980 by the purchase of Caber Italia S.p.A., which manufactured ski boots. In late 1980, Gamebridge acquired Trappeur Ltée, another ski boot company. Warrington acquired an additional 47 per cent of Gamebridge in January 1981, then in the spring of that year acquired Icaro Olivieri & Cie S.p.A. –

957-463: Was assigned 33% to Charles, 28% to Edgar, 18% to Minda, and 21% to Phyllis. Over time this changed depending on varying amounts of money withdrawn by each of the four. Cemp in turn was assigned 70% of Seco Ltd. and Edper 30%. Seco Ltd. held the siblings' shares in the family distilling empire, Distillers-Seagram Co. Ltd. Within a decade of its inception, Edper sold its share of Seco Ltd. to Cemp for CAD $ 16.6 million (approximately US$ 15 million), leaving

990-570: Was incorporated to hold Bauer's operations. Then, one 7 February 2017, the old Bauer Hockey Corp. was wound down and the company's operations were incorporated newly in Delaware as Bauer Hockey LLC. At the end of 2023, Fairfax's share of Peak Achievement had increased to 43 per cent. In September 2024, Fairfax reached an agreement with Sagard to buy out the latter's stake and become the sole owner of Peak Achievement. Cemp Investments Cemp Investments (1951–1987, succeeded by Claridge Investments )

1023-665: Was the Mies van der Rohe -designed Toronto-Dominion Centre , an office tower complex that expanded to include multiple towers totaling over 4 million square feet. In 1974, Fairview merged with the Cadillac Development Corporation, which was founded in 1953, in Guelph, Ontario . Cemp owned 40% of the new Toronto-based Cadillac Fairview Corporation (CF). Together with partners Toronto-Dominion Bank and department store T. Eaton Company , it developed Vancouver's Pacific Centre and

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1056-592: Was the first time Nike had ever used a partner brand name on a product. Nike sold the company to investors Roustan, Inc. and Kohlberg & Co. for $ 200 million on February 21, 2008, and the company was once again known as Bauer. On 18 April 2008, Nike Bauer Hockey Limited was renamed the Bauer Hockey Corp. In late 2010, the owners of the Bauer Hockey Corp. formed a parent company called Bauer Performance Sports, incorporated in British Columbia. In January 2011,

1089-649: Was the primary holding company and investment vehicle for, and named after, the four children of Samuel Bronfman : Charles Bronfman , Edgar Bronfman , Aileen "Minda" Bronfman de Gunzburg, and Phyllis Lambert , also known as the Montreal branch of the Bronfman family . Cemp became one of the largest privately owned companies in Canada . At its peak, it controlled tens of billions in dollars of assets in major distilling, commercial real estate development, oil and gas , and entertainment companies across North America . In 1951,

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