Founded in 1922, Canadian Tire Corporation is one of Canada's most-shopped general retailers, providing products and services for the jobs and joys of everyday life. With more than 1,200 retail and gasoline outlets across the country, our primary business categories - Automotive, Living, Fixing, Playing and Apparel - are supported by our Financial Services division.Our core retail and automotive operation is strengthened by PartSource, an automotive parts speciality chain; Canadian Tire Petroleum, one of the country's largest independent retailers of gasoline; Mark's, a leading retailer of men's, women's and work apparel; and Canadian Tire Financial Services, which has issued approximately four million Canadian Tire MasterCard credit cards.