{"id":10036,"date":"2012-01-31T03:50:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T03:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=10036"},"modified":"2012-01-31T03:50:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T03:50:55","slug":"woods-canada-limited-toronto-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2012\/01\/31\/woods-canada-limited-toronto-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Woods Canada Limited &#8211; Toronto, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/canada\/toronto_woods03.jpg?resize=575%2C859\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"859\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/canada\/toronto_woods02.jpg?resize=575%2C859\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"859\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/canada\/toronto_woods01.jpg?resize=575%2C859\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"859\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/canada\/toronto_woods04.jpg?resize=575%2C859\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"859\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/woodscanada.com\/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;view=itemlist&amp;layout=category&amp;task=category&amp;id=7&amp;Itemid=59\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/canada\/logoWoods.jpg?resize=188%2C94\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"94\" \/>Woods Canada Limited<\/a>\u00a0was founded in 1885 and has been a well-known Canadian manufacturer of outdoor clothing and equipment. Woods was most famous for their good quality sleeping bags which they made in Toronto until 2005. According to Prof. W. Tim G. Richardson, a full-time Professor at Seneca College, and concurrently teaching at the University of Toronto, on an academic website discussing the effects of globalization on North American industries, Richardson speaks about how Canadian\u00a0Tire&#8217;s overseas sourcing\u00a0led to a Canadian icon\u00a0losing business Ricardson states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As explained by the president of Woods, David G. Earthy,\u00a0a significant part of Woods business was supplying Canadian Tire &#8211; in fact the two companies had a supplier &#8211; retailer relationship more than 80 years.\u00a0Earthy explained Woods had to shut down operations following &#8220;&#8230;a decision by the Company\u2019s largest customer, Canadian Tire, to discontinue purchasing domestically manufactured sleeping bags.&#8221;\u00a0It has been suggested by others in the industry that Canadian Tire (facing competition from Wal-mart and other big vendors of camping equipment) had to further cut costs and was simply geting cheaper sleeping bags from suppliers in China.<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.witiger.com\/internationalbusiness\/globalization.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Witiger dot com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woods Canada Limited\u00a0was founded in 1885 and has been a well-known Canadian manufacturer of outdoor clothing and equipment. Woods was most famous for their good quality sleeping bags which they made in Toronto until 2005. According to Prof. W. Tim G. Richardson, a full-time Professor at Seneca College, and concurrently teaching at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2057,1952,1849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping-suppliers","category-canada","category-toronto-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-2BS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}