Canadian Tire Broadens Recall of Christmas Lights
25 December 2015 - 2:32AM
Dow Jones News
By Carolyn King
Canadian Tire Corp. broadened a recall of Christmas lights sold
across Canada after the country's health agency said the lights
posed the risk of fire or electric shock.
Toronto-based Canadian Tire, one of Canada's largest
home-improvement retailers, said it was recalling another 33 types
of indoor and outdoor Christmas lights, just two weeks after it
recalled 12 types of Christmas lights. The lights were sold under
the "Holiday Collection" brand name and were manufactured in
China.
Canadian Tire isn't the only Canadian retailer affected by the
seasonal lighting recall this year. Health Canada last Friday
expanded an earlier recall to 1.3 million products sold by a number
of retailers, warning the lights could overheat or cause fire or
electric shock. It said the lights were sold by Canadian Tire,
Lowe's Cos.' Canadian unit, Dollarama Inc. and several other
retailers. The agency said last Friday it had received 19 reports
of incidents related to the recall, including shock and minor
burns.
No serious injuries have been reported.
The recall notices said the lights were manufactured by Zhejiang
Kaifu Lamp Co., Taizhou Hongpeng Colour Lanterns Co. and Ningbo EGO
International Co.
"We take tremendous pride in sourcing quality products for
Canadians and we've been let down by two factories that have
manufactured products that do not meet our safety standards. We
will obviously address these failures with the factories, but in
the meantime we're asking Canadians to return the identified
products," Canadian Tire's chief operating officer, Allan
MacDonald, said in a news release late Tuesday.
Write to Carolyn King at carolyn.king@wsj.com
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