Bauer Hockey
company
Bauer Hockey LLC is a North American 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 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.
History
Bauer family years, 1934–1965
The origins of the Bauer brand of hockey equipment traces back to 14 September 1906, when the Western Shoe Company Limited was formed in Kitchener, Ontario, on 1927. 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.
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