Kal Tire
Kal Tire is a private Canadian tire dealer and service provider based in Vernon, British Columbia. Founded in 1953 by Thomas J. Foord and Jim Lochhead to serve cars and logging operations in the Okanagan, the company is named after Kalamalka Lake. Today, Kal Tire is one of Canada’s largest independent tire dealers and a major provider of commercial and mining tire services in North America. It offers retail and commercial tire sales, mechanical services, mining and off-road tire support, and tire retreading.
The company has a wide reach: about 270 store locations across Canada, five Canadian warehouses, ten truck tire retread facilities in Canada, and six earthmover (OTR) retreading facilities located in Canada, the United Kingdom, Chile, Ghana, and Mexico (as of 2025). Kal Tire employs roughly 6,500 people, and Corey Parks serves as President. Its operations include more than 500 service trucks offering 24-hour roadside service, a strong eCommerce platform for retail, and a national tire storage program.
Kal Tire also runs Kal Transportation with around 500 trucks. The company produces retreads to extend tire life and reduce costs and operates a thermal OTR tire recycling facility in Chile. It runs six OTR retreading facilities and the Maple Program for carbon-emission reporting when tires are repaired or retreaded. An Innovation Centre in Canada develops mining tire maintenance tools, and TOMS is a proprietary tire maintenance planning tool.
Beyond business, Kal Tire is active in communities through programs like Tires for Good and Kal’s Replay Fund. The Mining Tire Group (MTG) supports more than 150 mine sites across five continents with proactive tire maintenance and inventory management, employing more than 2,700 MTG team members.
Official sites: kaltire.com, kaltiremining.com, commercial.kaltire.com.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 05:02 (CET).