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Consumers Distributing purchased the 42-store Cardinal Distributors catalogue chain from Steinberg Inc. and the 70-store American chain Consumers from May Department Stores, bringing its total store count to approximately 400 in 1981. [3] During the 1980s, Consumers Distributing built a chain of toy stores called Toy City (Toyville in Quebec ...
A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993 A&B Sound – home electronics retailer based in Richmond , BC; founded in 1959, it had expanded as far as Winnipeg , Manitoba by 2000, but its subsequent ...
The building was once connected to the adjacent building now known as the Merchandise Building, a former department store warehouse, which has since been converted to loft apartments. The Government of Ontario chose 222 Jarvis Street as a model to show that older buildings can be retrofitted to significantly reduce a building's carbon footprint .
Stonehouse quickly divested Weston Apparel and San Remo. The size of the Company doubled to over 200 stores and approximately $200 million in revenue. The Tip Top Tailors chain was started in Toronto in 1909 by David Dunkelman in Toronto. The rented store was at 245 Yonge Street, and Dunkelman sold tailored suits for $14. [2]
In 2006, a new wing of the Toronto Eaton Centre was opened, containing several stores, a parking garage, and Toronto Metropolitan University's Faculty of Business as seen in 2009. One of the mall's two parking garages, the nine-storey Dundas Parkade on Dundas Street with its two spiral stack ramps and the multiplex cinema below it, was ...
Winners logo from 1982 to 2005 Winners in Southcentre Mall, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Winners store in Bayers Lake Business Park with 1980s logo. Winners was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 1982 by David Margolis. [2] [3] It was one of the first off-price department stores in Canada. In 1990, it merged with off-price department store owner TJX ...
In 1976, Petersen's opened its first store outside the Quad Cities area at Valley West Mall in West Des Moines, Iowa. The company continued to open new stores in shopping malls throughout Iowa and Illinois during the late 1970s and 1980s; along the way it acquired two former Killian's department stores in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, Iowa , in 1981.