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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.
As of March 2004, the company had reduced its size to 81 stores [4] and was acquired by another national furniture retailer, The Brick. In 2006, The Brick rebranded 24 of these under its own name in an attempt to save on advertising costs and increase sales, which had fallen 10.8% in the third quarter of 2005 for established UFW stores. [5]
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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.
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He was able to open a store with his profits in 1909. The original store (A. Leon Company at 244 King Street) was a dry goods outlet, which subsequently converted to furniture sales. [7] Leon's original store was staffed primarily by his family. When he died in 1942, he left the company to his children. [8]