Several Calgary companies that professionally hang Christmas lights say they've had an influx of callbacks from customers this season to fix Noma-branded strands sold by Canadian Tire that keep ...

This had an unfortunate effect on string lights, which saw sales plummet as a result. By 1966, the NOMA Electric Company filed for bankruptcy. By the '70s, almost all Christmas lights were foreign ...

Inevitably, the Christmas lights industry took a nosedive, and in 1966, NOMA filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest Christmas tree lights company in the world at the time. 1966: GE blankets ...

Sales of Christmas lights also grew along with the fortunes of New York entrepreneur Albert Sadacca who, in 1917, began what would become the Noma Electric Co., which nearly monopolized the ...

The ad campaign worked, and the 1930s became a renaissance for funky Christmas light designs. NOMA produced lights in the shape of clowns, witches, and Santa Claus.

Canadian Tire shoppers can save $100 on this seven-foot artificial Henry Fir Christmas tree. The tree is pre-strung with 400 colour-changing LED lights and has an average rating of 4.4 stars from ...

NOMA became the largest Christmas light company in the world until the mid-1960s. 6. Early lights were elaborate. ... Christmas lights weren’t safe for outdoor use until the 1920s.

In the 1950s, the popularity of aluminum Christmas trees, which were not decorated with lights, hit NOMA hard. It went bankrupt in 1966. By 1978, U.S. Christmas light manufacturing was a thing of ...

Several Calgary companies that professionally hang Christmas lights say they've had an influx of callbacks from customers this season to fix Noma-branded strands sold by Canadian Tire that keep ...