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Our Story
Peak is an international leader in the home renovation and outdoor living products sector, offering over 1,000 products. These include aluminum railings, fencing and decking products, gutters, gardenware, and much more.
In Canada and the United States, Peak products are sold exclusively through The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer. Peak has been supplying The Home Depot since 1999. Today, our vast array of products are sold in the 2,200 Home Depot stores throughout North America.
Peak also supplies many of its product lines to Bunnings, the largest home improvement retailer in Australia and New Zealand.
To meet the growing demand for its products, Peak Products manufactures its products in Canada, Mexico, Asia, and a growing number of countries around the world. Peak also operates large distribution centres in Canada, USA, and Australia.
The Rise of Peak
From small start-up into an international home renovation and outdoor living products’ leader began 25 years ago in a small Vancouver apartment with just one phone, one fax machine and one product.
Peak founder and CEO John Gross had just earned his MBA from Simon Fraser University, and while checking local newspapers for business ideas came across a tiny ad offering high quality overseas manufacturing at low prices. John called the number and on the other end of the line was an electrical engineer from Beijing who’d been trying to get new products off the ground in North America without success.
"We’re so fortunate to have the best team in the business and an incredible partnership with The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer," says John.
Rather than trying to get a new product off the ground, John figured they should find something that already existed and just make a better version at a lower cost. Based on his home renovation experience, John decided his first product should be a post holder for 4x4 posts. After visiting a very small factory in China, he convinced a Lower Mainland manufacturing company that he could provide them with better post holders than they were making, at a much lower cost. When the first container arrived, they immediately stopped manufacturing them and made Peak their supplier.
John eventually set his sights on The Home Depot, which in 1999 only had a couple of dozen stores across the country. After months of sales calls, he received a call from the store in Nanaimo, where the manager was looking for a better post holder, one that could stand up to West Coast weather. In a pattern that would repeat itself many times over the next 25 years, the Peak team acted quickly to take advantage of an opportunity left open by the competition. That first $50 order from Home Depot generated a $5-profit for Peak. On the vendor application form were the instructions - repeated ten times - to always ship 100% complete and on time. It’s a commitment John and the Peak team took to heart.
Peak Celebrates 25 Years
In March 2023, we celebrated 25 years as a home improvement leader making 1,000+ great products. Thank you to our dedicated employees and suppliers, and to The Home Depot for being an amazing partner every step of the way.
Peak fosters a culture of innovation. Peak employees, engineers and designers often identify current issues and problems customers are facing and ask themselves “how can we solve the problem?" Many improvements and innovations come out of studying what need is being met by an existing product and what needs could be met with more innovative products.
Peak’s team of engineers design, improve, test and ensure that Peak provides innovative, safe, durable products of the highest quality.
The engineers at Peak develop and design many inventive and unique products that offer better solutions to our customers. Innovation is a common theme and a way of life for Peak’s engineers.
Peak’s engineers test products to ensure that the products exceed expectations and out perform competitive products in the marketplace. We take great pride in our products and have an entire engineering team devoted to developing products of the highest standard.
The in-house design capabilities of Peak include teams responsible for designing new products and making improvements to existing product lines. This is a just one indicator of the high quality nature of the Peak brand.
Peak leads the way within the outdoor home improvement products industry for design. Hundreds of Peak’s unique and creative designs are the subject of industrial design (or “design patent”) applications and/or registrations. In Canada alone Peak has approximately one hundred industrial design registrations.
Creative designs from Peak stand out from the crowd.
Peak Products offers a sweeping portfolio of unique home exterior and home interior products. Renowned throughout the home improvement industry, Peak’s products boast ingenious yet simple design, durability, safety, and unsurpassed value.
The creation and enforcement of Peak’s intellectual property are of mutual strategic importance, to us and our customers.
We recognize that a comprehensive and robust intellectual property portfolio is paramount to building brand value and product recognition. Our innovative products and technology are protected with hundreds of registered intellectual property rights and a host of unregistered rights.
Peak has filed well over five hundred applications for patents, designs, and trademarks, hundreds of which have issued all over the world. That extensive portfolio expands with each new or improved Peak product, technology, and brand breakthrough.
Intellectual property due diligence is an important aspect of Peak’s legal strategy. Our experienced in-house and external legal teams are experts at in-depth intellectual property clearance. Each innovation launch is preceded by exhaustive searches and analyses of relevant IP. As a result, each launch is undertaken with confidence that the unique invention not only carves out a protectable market niche but does so free of any possible intellectual property infringement.
Through diligently protecting our inventions, and by steadfastly asserting our rights, Peak continually strengthens our product identities to ensure that we supply products, brands, and technology that consumers recognize, trust and can rely upon.