Kal Tire

Kal Tire was started in 1953 by Thomas J. Foord and Jim Lochhead with the goal of servicing passenger vehicles and commercial logging operations in the Okanagan Valley around Vernon, British Columbia  by building customers' trust.

Kal Tire was named after Kalamalka Lake, the prominent "Lake of Many Colours" landmark in Vernon. The company is still based in Vernon, BC.

Since 1953, Kal Tire has expanded steadily becoming one of Canada’s largest independent tire dealers and one of North America’s largest commercial tire dealers. Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group is an international leader in mining tire service and supply, servicing more than 150 mine sites across five continents. The company has warehouse facilities across Canada servicing over 270 Kal Tire retail and commercial stores. Kal Tire owns and operates 10 truck tire retread facilities across Canada, plus six earthmover retreading facilities located in Canada, the United Kingdom, Chile, Ghana and Mexico. The company employs more than 6,500 team members.

Stores

Kal Tire stores in Canada serve retail and commercial customers, depending on the market they are in. The core offering is to provide products and services related to tires, brakes and alignments. In addition, there are a few dedicated Fleet Centre locations that provide an expanded offering. There is an increasing commitment to commercial mobile service, enabling commercial customers to reduce their requirement to bring vehicles to a Kal Tire location for service. Currently, the company has more than 500 service trucks providing 24-hour road-side service.

The company’s retail business also has an advanced eCommerce platform in Canada to support its stores. The company also has the only national customer tire storage offering.

Remanufacturing

Kal Tire produces retreads. The application-specific treads offer like-new performance, while lowering total cost of tire ownership. It has been doing this for more than 50 years.