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Staples Canada ULC, operating as Staples (Bureau en Gros in Quebec), [1] is a Canadian retail sales company owned by Sycamore Partners. [2] Staples was founded by Leo Kahn [3] and Thomas G. Stemberg. [4] Since 2017, Staples Canada has operated independently from Staples' U.S. retail and U.S. business-to-business (B2B) operations. [5]
Real - owned by Metro AG; Sephora - perfumes; France; Staples Inc. - office supplies, office equipment; Target - general merchandise; Tesco - hypermarkets; United Kingdom; Tower Records - music, videos (Defunct) Toys "R" Us - toys, video games, videos (Temporarily Defunct) Walmart - groceries, general merchandise Sam's Club - groceries, general ...
Staples's logo from 1988 to 2019. Staples Inc. is an American office supply retail company headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. Founded by Leo Kahn and Thomas G. Stemberg, the company opened its first store in Brighton, Massachusetts on May 1, 1986. [5]
Walgreens operates 12,000 stores around the world including its 1,900-strong Boots network. It bought a share of Boots in 2012 and fully took over the brand in 2015.
Apart from major American big-box stores such as Walmart Canada and briefly now-defunct Target Canada, there are many retail chains operating exclusively in Canada.These include stores such as (followed after each slash by the owner) Hudson's Bay, Loblaws/Real Canadian Superstore, Rona, Winners/HomeSense, Canadian Tire/Mark's/Sport Chek, Shoppers Drug Mart, Chapters/Indigo Books and Music ...
Walgreens will have more freedom to aggressively cut costs if it becomes privately owned, one industry analyst said. The company is reportedly in talks with Sycamore Partners.
It has been owned since 2012 by Scotiabank (formally the Bank of Nova Scotia). Tim Hortons — sold to U.S.-based Wendy's International in 1995, and later to sold to the public as an IPO in 2005. It is now owned by Toronto-based Restaurant Brands International, a Canadian-American fast food holding company.
Walgreens began in 1901, with a small food front store on the corner of Bowen and Cottage Grove Avenues in Chicago, owned by Dixon, Illinois native Charles R. Walgreen. [6] By 1913, Walgreens had grown to four stores on Chicago's South Side. It opened its fifth in 1915 and four more in 1916. By 1919, there were 20 stores in the chain.