2010 NATIONAL CORPORATE SPONSORS- CANADA
As of 2008

National corporate sponsors:

1. Bell (telecommunications, $200 million)
2. Hudsons Bay Company (old fur trade company, also early colonial government, owner of The Bay, Zellers, & Fields department stores, supplier of uniforms and clothing to 2010 & Canadian Olympic team, a $100 million sponsor)
3. Royal Bank of Canada (RBC Financial Group, $110 million)
4. General Motors of Canada (car/truck manufacturer, also military vehicles inc. APCs, $53 million)
5. Petro-Canada (one of largest Canadian oil & gas corporations, exploiting and destroying Indigenous lands, $62.5 million)
6. Rona (hardware store/corporation, official building supplier, $68 million)

Official supporters:

1. Air Canada (official airline of 2010)
2. BC Lottery Corporation (lottery games, government-owned corporation)
3. Canadian Pacific Railway (cargo rail, resources taken from Indigenous lands, factor in colonization)
4. Insurance Corporation of BC (government-owned corporation, official auto insurance)
5. Jet Set Sports (corporate hospitality)
6. Ricoh (print communications & services)
7. Royal Canadian Mint (makes souvenir coins, medals, etc.)
8. Teck Cominco (mining corporation, exploiting & destroying Indigenous lands)

Official suppliers:

1. 3M
2. Birks (diamonds, including ‘blood-diamonds’ mined in war-torn African countries)
3. Dow (one of the largest chemical corporations in world, responsible for widespread ecological destruction. As current owner of Union Carbide, refuses to compensate victims of 1984 Bhopal disaster)
4. Epcor (oil & gas corporation exploiting and destroying Indigenous lands, including tar sands in northern Alberta)
5. Haworth (modular furniture & interior design)
6. Nortel (telecommunications)
7. Transcanada (large oil, gas & energy corporation w/more than 59,000 km of pipelines in Canada & into US)
8. Vincor Canada (wine supplier)
9. Weston (bread & baked goods)
10. Workopolis (employment center, 2010 recruiting)
11. Moving Products, Inc., provides custom apparel, uniforms, gifts etc. for Olympics. Has been contracted for 10 consecutive Olympic Games (including Atlanta ’96, Sydney 2000, Salt Lake City 2002, etc. Has outfitted over 250,000 individuals with over 2,500,000 pieces of custom apparel.
Showroom located at 495 Railway St., Vancouver, BC, Tel: 778-785-2010

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