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The company was founded as The Brick Warehouse LP by brothers, John, Fred, and Bill Comrie. The first warehouse opened on September 1, 1971 in Edmonton , Alberta . Its first expansion was to Fort McMurray , Alberta in the 1970s and later acquired a competitor in the city of Calgary .
United Furniture Warehouse (UFW) was a Canadian retail furniture chain operating locations in Western Canada and Ontario. The company billed itself as "offering warehouse-style shopping at the lowest possible prices." [1] The company was founded in 1981 by John Volken, an immigrant who arrived in Canada from East Germany in 1960 at the age of ...
HomeSense Canada — discount home furnishing store chain, owned by US-based parent TJX; Hart Stores; Sleep Country Canada; Showcase Stores; Worldwide Matress Outlet; Leon's. The Brick; The Brick Matress Store; La-Z-Boy Gallery Canada — Canadian division of US-based La-Z-Boy; Structube; Surplus; JYSK Canada — Canadian division of Danish ...
Multinational investment management company based in Toronto. 232 Power Corporation of Canada: $55,488 33,700 Diversified international management company primarily focused on the financials sector and including holdings in telecommunications and media. Subsidiaries include Power Financial, Gesca and Great-West Lifeco. 277 Manulife Financial ...
Comrie was born on June 29, 1950, in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. [3]He played junior hockey with the Moose Jaw Canucks, a Chicago Blackhawks farm team, and later the Edmonton Oil Kings, but retired from hockey in 1968 to enter into the family furniture business following the death of his father Herb, [3] eventually turning down an invitation to a Blackhawks training camp.
Waterloo's most successful brand is the Laker series. It also operates LandShark Lager Canada and Waterloo Brewing; the latter is their craft brewing division. [3] In mid-2019, the company announced that it would change the corporate name from Brick to Waterloo Brewing Ltd. [4] In December 2022, the company announced that it was being acquired ...
Calgary 36.1 2.2 122.2 75.3 Oil and Gas 8 190 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce: Toronto 20.2 3.9 486.0 36.8 Banking 9 229 Suncor Energy: Calgary 29.7 2.5 65.6 52.6 Oil and Gas 10 273 Sun Life Financial: Toronto 23.4 2.0 196.0 24.5 Insurance 11 341 Bell Canada: Montreal 18.1 2.3 41.8 40.9 Telecommunication: 12 342 Canadian Natural Resources ...
Rona also acquired a majority (51%) stake in Matériaux Coupal Inc as well as Curtis Lumber Building Supplies and Chester Dawe Limited, a company based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2007, Rona acquired Dick's Lumber, a company based in Burnaby, British Columbia. In 2007, Rona acquired Noble Trade, a company based in Concord, Ontario.