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Barring a few locations in Ontario, almost all of Rona's big-box format stores in the rest of Canada were entirely corporate-owned. In 2015, Rona acquired all remaining Rona Home & Garden franchise stores across the country to make the big box chain wholly-owned by the company. [22] [23] In December 2016, Lowe's Canada announced that 40 large ...
On February 1, 2008, they opened three more stores in Toronto, East Gwillimbury, and a second store in Brampton as well as a new location in Maple (Vaughan). [7] Lowe's also expanded into western Canada, starting with three new stores in Calgary, Alberta. One of the three locations opened in late September 2010. The other two opened by early 2011.
In September 2003, Rona Inc. acquired Réno-Dépôt; following the merger, the Ontario-based Building Box stores were re-branded as Rona Home & Garden. [4] The purchase was part of a plan to establish more "big box" stores to accompany its smaller specialty outlets and compete with the U.S.-based chain The Home Depot. [5]
Payless ShoeSource Canada — Shoe store; Kmart Canada — Canadian division of US-based parent; Canadian stores sold to Zellers; Knob Hill Farms — grocery store chain in Southern Ontario; Krazy Krazy; Les Ailes de la Mode — department store; Lowe's Canada — Hardware store, now RONA+; Lastman's Bad Boy — Furniture Store
Empire operates . Lawtons; Needs Convenience; Farm Boy; Foodland some CO-OP stores in Atlantic Canada; FreshCo; IGA / IGA Extra in Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, some parts of Atlantic Canada formerly CO-OP Atlantic and Saskatchewan only
The Canadian head office is located in Toronto. The Canadian unit was created with the purchase of Aikenhead's Hardware. Home Depot management had an ambitious plan to overtake its biggest competitor, RONA, which has about four times as many stores. However, some of RONA's stores are smaller than the typical Home Depot store.
On February 1, 2008, they opened three more stores in Toronto, East Gwillimbury, and a second store in Brampton as well as a new location in Maple (Vaughan). [67] Lowe's also expanded into western Canada, starting with three new stores in Calgary, Alberta. One of the three locations opened in late September 2010. The other two opened in early 2011.
A Lowe's home improvement store opened in the former Target store in late November 2016, [4] but it had closed by the end of February 2019. [5] A Canada Computers store has now been open since December 14, 2019 in the former Lowe's store. [6] With 59,004.7 square metres (635,121 sq ft) of retail space, it is one of the largest malls in Toronto.