NAICS 33699Industry · 5-digitinternational market

Other transportation equipment manufacturing

This industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other industry, primarily engaged in manufacturing transportation equipment and parts. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 191
Under 10 employeesA: 58%
Establishments · USA: 957
Employment · USA: 39,881
Payroll · USA: $2.7B

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–48142%

5–93016%

10–193418%

20–492212%

50–99137%

100–19963%

200–49921%

500+32%

Of 191 Canadian establishments with employees, 58% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario7539%

Quebec7137%

British Columbia2714%

Alberta74%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Manufacturing, US · opened 2020

86.2%

1 year

70.8%

3 years

58.4%

5 years

45.3%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 336, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

international competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 336 Transportation equipment manufacturing

A tiered supply chain in which price is dictated downward. The reachable ends are specialty vehicles, trailers, truck bodies and aftermarket.

Who sets the price: A few OEMs, through tiered supply contracts.
The software it runs on: Automotive and aerospace quality systems, supplier portals, product lifecycle management.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 3369 Other transportation equipment manufacturing covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 3369

Powersports Vehicle ManufacturingOne thing must be true

binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability

A residual code — motorcycles, snowmobiles, all-terrain and side-by-side vehicles, golf carts, bicycles, military vehicles and more. The screen takes powersports, because that is where a Canadian entrant would be looking and where the public record is, and says plainly that the rest was not examined. The attraction is that enthusiasts pay real money for a better machine and that Quebec has the supplier base and the engineers; 71 of the 191 Canadian establishments are there. The reason they are there is also the cut. BRP of Valcourt — Ski-Doo, Sea-Doo, Can-Am — reported C$8,442.7M of revenue for the year to 31 January 2026, up 6.8%, and C$1,103.4M of normalised EBITDA [A]. In its fourth quarter its North American retail sales rose 12% with market-share gains in off-road vehicles and snowmobiles, in a year-round-product industry it described as flat [A]. This is an incumbent taking share in a flat market, with its own engines, a new-model cadence it funds from a billion dollars of EBITDA, and the dealer network every entrant would need. The places an entrant might hope to outflank it are electric and light-mobility products — and BRP's own results close that door too: it recorded a C$229.8M impairment on its EV assets and light-mobility unit and C$28.5M of EV-related provisions, citing 'the challenges in the EV industry' [A]. The best-resourced player tried the new category and wrote it down. There is no slow or distracted incumbent here to be vulnerable. The small establishments in this code are makers of things like custom motorcycles, bicycle frames and specialty carts; each is its own niche and none was screened.

NAICS 33695 vendors named11 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Automotive and aerospace quality systems, supplier portals, product lifecycle management.

Catalogued categories — named, not analysed

Discrete manufacturing ERP SaaS 31-33

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Who works here

The occupations employed in Manufacturing, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors One industry 91.3%

Supervisors, assembly and fabrication One industry 88.3%

Machine operators and related workers in pulp and paper production and wood processing and manufacturing One industry 86.1%

Managers in manufacturing and utilities One industry 84.4%

Machine operators and related workers in chemical, plastic and rubber processing One industry 82.7%

Mechanical, electrical and electronics assemblers and inspectors One industry 82.3%

Machine operators and related workers in food, beverage and associated products processing One industry 79.1%

Machine operators and related workers in mineral and metal products processing and manufacturing One industry 77.7%

Furniture, wood, plastic and other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors One industry 73.9%

Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing One industry 70.8%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 20%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 16.3%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 15.2%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 11.6%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 10.7%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 9.6%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 9.2%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 8.3%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.7%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 4.8%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Inside this industry

1 row sits directly beneath 33699. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
336990	Other transportation equipment manufacturing	191	screened at 3369