 In 2018, Canadian Tire Corp. says it has acquired Sher-Wood Athletics Group Inc.'s global hockey trademarks.Until 2007, Sher-Wood was one of the last ice hockey manufacturing company to produce their own wooden sticks in North America, the other companies having all offshored production to developing countries.In late 2007, Sherwood-Drolet announced that they would also move production of cheaper wooden sticks overseas to concentrate their North American plants on composite sticks.