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Mark's (Denver Hayes)

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Alberta

Denver Hayes is the casual house brand of Mark's, the work and casual apparel banner run by Mark's Work Wearhouse Ltd. (Alberta) for Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (TSX: CTC, CTC.A). It covers t-shirts, underwear, socks, sleepwear, and jeans, sold only through Mark's and L'Equipeur stores and marks.com.

Calgary, AB CA · www.marks.com

64.0

Denver Hayes is an owned brand of Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited, an Ontario public company controlled through its voting Common Shares by Martha and Owen Billes, and sold through the Mark's and L'Equipeur banners that Mark's Work Wearhouse Ltd. runs from Calgary. Ownership and the store network are Canadian and documented in the 2025 annual information form; the clothing itself comes from the corporation's disclosed Tier 1 owned-brand factories, of which 297 of 300 are outside Canada, mostly in China, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 verified

CA 100%

The 2025 annual information form names Denver Hayes among Canadian Tire Corporation's owned brands and Mark's Work Wearhouse Ltd. (Alberta) as a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited, incorporated in Ontario with its head office at 2180 Yonge Street, Toronto, and listed on the TSX. The same form reports that Martha Billes and Owen Billes beneficially own or control 2,101,150 Common Shares, 61.4% of the voting class, through Tire 'N' Me Pty. Ltd. and Albikin Management Inc, so control, head office, and listing venue are all Canadian. Corporations Canada returned only two dissolved federal entities under the Mark's Work Wearhouse name, consistent with the operating company being an Alberta corporation; the Alberta and Ontario registries could not be reached today.

Manufacturing

21.4 reported

CA 2% · EU 1% · other 96% · US 1%

Canadian Tire publishes the names and addresses of all active Tier 1 factories making its owned-brand apparel, footwear, and accessories; the January 2026 list has 300 sites, of which 163 are in China, 61 in Bangladesh, 30 in Cambodia, 26 in Vietnam, 3 in Canada (Scarborough, Princeville, Montreal), 2 in the United States, and 2 in Portugal and Italy. The list covers every owned brand rather than Denver Hayes alone and counts factories rather than revenue, so the split is an estimate weighted by site count; the annual information form adds that Mark's imports are sourced primarily from Asia through offices in Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and China. Denver Hayes product pages are script-rendered and no per-item country of origin label could be read.

  • Canadian Tire Corporation Supplier List vendor_statement “this Supplier List discloses the names and addresses of all of our active Tier 1 Owned Brand apparel, footwear and accessories supplier factories”
  • Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited 2025 Annual Information Form filing “approximately 50 percent of Canadian Tire Retail, 33 percent of Mark’s, and 21 percent of SportChek inventory purchases were sourced directly from vendors outside Canada, primarily from Asia”
  • The CANADA List directory “Mark's private label brand; substantial retail footprint in Canada, product manufacturing is outsourced, however.”

People

97.6 verified

CA 97% · other 3%

The annual information form lists all 357 corporate and 29 franchise Mark's and L'Equipeur stores in Canadian provinces and territories, and the corporation's 28,927 permanent employees work from a Toronto head office and Canadian stores and distribution centres. Mark's terms and conditions are governed by Alberta law with Calgary courts, matching the Calgary head office recorded on Wikidata. The small foreign share reflects the corporation's sourcing offices in Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and China and is an estimate.

Inputs

20.5 inferred

CA 3% · EU 2% · other 90% · US 5%

The 2025 ESG report calls cotton the key material in Mark's products and says Mark's funds CottonConnect farmer programs in China and India, moving more than 2 million units of clothing to cotton from those farms in 2025. With nearly all sewing in China, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam, denim, knit fabric, and trims are assumed to come from mills near those factories; the small US share allows for US-grown cotton and the Canadian share for domestic distribution and packaging. No supplier discloses fabric or trim origin, so the split is an estimate.

  • CTC 2025 ESG Report vendor_statement “As cotton is a key material in Mark’s products, we have prioritized improving the sustainability of the cotton supply chain”

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