Canadian Retail News From Around The Web: March 2, 2017
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Our Articles of the Day:
1) Sport Chek Launches 1st Women-Only Concept Store [Photos]
The Canadian sports retailer is launching a unique new concept store that, if successful, could be expanded to multiple cities.
2) Still Time to Register for Dx3 Conference in Toronto Next Week
Canada’s largest digital marketing/advertising/retailing conference and trade show takes place on May 8 and 9 in Toronto, and it will be the most interactive to date.
Top Stories - National:
-BCBG Max Azria to close all 51 Canadian stores as company files for bankruptcy (Financial Post)
-Why Sunrise Records thinks it can succeed where HMV failed (Canadian Business)
-Perhaps ambitious’: Canada Goose seeks to raise $320 million in luxury parka IPO (Financial Post)
-Canada reaches new milestones in domestic organic production (MarketWired)
-Canadian Fur Designer Lysa Lash Going Extra Miles to Court Customers (WWD)
-Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc. (ZZZ:CA) Rises 9.54% (Equities)
-Fleurs de Villes takes Floral Mannequin Series across Canada in 2017 (MarketWired press release)
Canadian News - Regional:
Central Canada: ON/QC/Maritimes
-Alimentation Couche Tard Inc. Is Severely Undervalued (Motley)
-Kitchener council rejects drive-thru in stunning turnaround (Waterloo Record)
-Another Pet Valu robbed, canine unit on the case: police (Hamilton: CBC)
Western Canada/North: BC/AB/SK/MB
-White Rock retail and homeowners move uptown and away from oceanfront (Western Investor)
-Concrete balls blocking alcoves no solution to homelessness, says advocate (Vancouver: CBC)
-A guide to hunting for vinyl in Vancouver (Ubyssey)
-Asbestos risk forces downtown store to shut down (Victoria Times Colonist)
-Trevor Hancock: Healthy corner stores — well, why not? (Victoria Times Colonist)
-Shop owner says she's target of hate crimes for being a witch, selling pagan products (CBC Manitoba)
Our Previous Articles:
-Inside Yorkville’s Soon-To-Be-Demolished Retail Plazas [Featured Photo-Tour]
-Woolrich Partners with Brokerage for Canadian Expansion
-Unique Canadian Beauty Invention Targets Global Expansion
-RCC to Host Retail Marketing Conference this Spring
-Holt Renfrew to Shutter hr2 Division
-Inside Samsung’s Canadian Retail Strategy
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