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Canadian Tire Corporation

Canadian Tire Corporation is the Toronto retailer the Billes brothers started as a tire and garage business in 1922. It now runs more than 1,600 stores under banners including Canadian Tire Retail, SportChek, Mark's, Atmosphere and Party City, plus a financial services arm and CT REIT.

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1922founded by John William and Alfred Jackson Billes; incorporated as Canadian Tire Corporation in 1927The Canadian Encyclopedia

The people

Greg ShellyVP, Enterprise Digital Marketing · 1 TechTO talk
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John William BillesCo-founderprofile coming
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Alfred Jackson BillesCo-founderprofile coming

What they build

Canadian Tire Retail
SportChek
Mark's
Atmosphere
Canadian Tire Financial Services
CT REIT

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On the TechTO stage

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About

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited began on 24 October 1922, when brothers John William Billes and Alfred Jackson Billes put their combined savings into a Toronto tire and garage business; they incorporated as Canadian Tire Corporation in 1927. The company today is a multi-banner retailer headquartered at 2180 Yonge Street in Toronto, operating more than 1,600 retail stores across Canadian Tire Retail, SportChek, Mark's, Atmosphere, Sports Experts, Pro Hockey Life, PartSource and Party City, alongside Canadian Tire Financial Services, Gas+ and the CT REIT property vehicle. Greg Shelly, its vice-president of enterprise digital marketing, took the MarketingTO stage in December 2019 to describe what digital work looks like inside a hundred-year-old retailer — the constraints, the legacy systems and the reasons a large incumbent moves the way it does.

Backers

Publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange; not venture-backed.

Quick answers

What is Canadian Tire Corporation?

A Toronto-headquartered retailer running more than 1,600 stores under banners including Canadian Tire Retail, SportChek, Mark's, Atmosphere and Party City, plus Canadian Tire Financial Services, Gas+ and the CT REIT property vehicle.

When was Canadian Tire founded and by whom?

Brothers John William and Alfred Jackson Billes started the business in Toronto on 24 October 1922 and incorporated it as Canadian Tire Corporation in 1927.

What did Canadian Tire talk about at TechTO?

Greg Shelly, VP of enterprise digital marketing, spoke at MarketingTO in December 2019 about what it is like to do digital work inside a hundred-year-old retailer.

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